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Benjamin Sudakov receives Humboldt Research Award
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards the Humboldt Research Award 2014 to Prof. Benjamin Sudakov.
Peter J. Bickel receives honorary doctorate
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The Department proposed the statistician Prof. Peter J. Bickel for the honorary doctorate of the ETH Zurich. He was honored for his pioneering work on semiparametric and high-dimensional statistics and on resampling methods for statistical inference.
Meike Akveld receives Golden Owl
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The student association VSETH awards the Golden Owl to Dr. Meike Akveld. She is lecturer at the Department and responsible for the teaching of Analysis I and II at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
50 Years of Statistics at ETH Zurich
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The colloquium: "From robust to high-dimensional statistics: 50 years of statistics at ETH Zurich" celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Statistics at ETH Zurich. It is organized by the Seminar for Statistics, has started today and will last until 25 November 2014.
Finanzmathematiker – beliebte Sündenböcke
Finanzmathematiker der ETH Zürich wehren sich in einer Replik auf einen NZZ-Artikel von Volker Bieta und Hellmuth Milde gegen den Vorwurf der Weltfremdheit. Der Versuch einer Ehrenrettung für das Prinzip der Arbitrage-Freiheit.