Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium Originally Posted: November 17, 2017 A team of university and government scientists, selected by an expert review panel convened by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico. “American communities across the Gulf […]
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The Department of Statistical Science at SMU is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert M. Bell will be our second Bill Schucany Visiting Scholar. Robert Bell received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He spent about twenty years at RAND doing public policy analysis before moving on to the Statistics Research Department at AT&T […]
SMU News Originally Posted: June 22, 2017 SMU statistics Ph.D. student Yu Lan received the Dr. Thomas Chalmers Award May 9 in Liverpool, England, for a paper he wrote on a new, money-saving method for predicting clinical trial outcomes. Yu Lan (left) and Prof. Daniel Heitjan Lan, a student of SMU biostatistics program director Professor […]
SMU News Originally Posted: June 8, 2017 Eighteen distinguished faculty members with a combined total of nearly 585 years of SMU service retired with emeritus status in the 2016-17 academic year. The professors, and their dates of service: • Thomas E. Barry, Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Cox School of Business, 1970-2017 • Janis Bergman-Carton, Professor Emerita of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, 1991-2017 • Edward Biehl, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Dedman […]
SMU Adventures Originally Posted: March 20, 2017 Associate Professor of Political Science Joe Kobylka and the students in his Honors Program class “The Supreme Court Seminar” are spending six days in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., doing research in the papers of former Supreme Court Justices. Each student has developed a unique research […]
Event Date: March 8, 2017 Location: Caruth Hall 314 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM The Scientific Computation (CSC) spring workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization usage. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to Research Computing” workshop […]
Event Date: February 15, 2017 Location: Caruth Hall 314 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM The Scientific Computation (CSC) spring workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization usage. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to Research Computing” […]
Event Date: 12/8/16 Location: The Forum, Hughes-Trigg Student Center Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. with refreshments Join Dr. Cornelis Potgieter (Statistics) for a tutorial providing an overview of some of the tools often used in statistical analysis. These tools include methods of parameter estimation and statistical inference, methods which can often be formulated using a minimum […]
Event date: March 14, 2016 Time: 3:30pm Location: Dedman Life Sciences Building 131 Join Professor Monnie McGee of the Department of Statistical Science as she presents her work on metagenomic classification using quasi-alignment methods. Light Refreshments Provided. Sponsored by the DCII Research Cluster, “Linking Mathematical and Life Sciences.” For more information http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events.
We are pleased to announce a new Ph.D. program in Biostatistics offered in partnership between the Department of Statistical Science at SMU and the Department of Clinical Sciences at UTSW. The Ph.D. program in Biostatistics will be launched in the Fall 2014 semester, and applications are currently being accepted for admission into the program. READ […]