Dr. Constance van Eeden seminar

The van Eeden seminar is a yearly event in which graduate students vote for their favorite statisticians. The winner is contacted by the organizing committee and invited to give a talk in the department’s seminar. The speaker spends one or two days on-campus, and graduate students have the opportunity to have lunch and dinner with them.

This year’s speaker

Update: The recording for this year’s van Eeden seminar is now available!

About

The van Eeden seminar is supported by the Constance van Eeden fund, which was established by Dr. van Eeden (1927–2021) in 1998. Dr. van Eeden was a mathematical statistician who made foundational contributions to estimation in restricted parameter spaces and nonparametric statistics.

The van Eeden fund is used to support many other activities on top of the student-invited speaker talk, such as inviting visiting professors for a week or more; organizing statistics summer schools; and giving out admissions awards to promising graduate students.

See the department’s webpage to learn more!

Sponsors

The 2023 van Eeden seminar is additionally supported by the CANSSI Distinguished Visitor Program.

Previous presenters

• [2023] Dr. Kevin Murphy
• [2022] Dr. Tamara Broderick. More info here
• [2021] Dr. Geoffrey Hinton
• [2020] Dr. Daniella Witten
• [2019] Dr. David Blei
• [2018] Dr. Jim Berger
• [2017] Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal
• [2016] Dr. Art Owen
• [2015] Dr. Roger Cooke
• [2015] Dr. Peter Guttorp
• [2014] Dr. Rob Tibshirani
• [2013] Dr. Miguel Hernan
• [2013] Dr. Gavin Shaddick
• [2012] Dr. Michael Jordan

Last updated: March 29, 2023