Category: News and announcements

Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Competition 2022

Project Description The Blavatnik Family Foundation is providing critical support to seed innovative work in science and technology that will address society’s most pressing global problems. These awards recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according …

The 2021 School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences Job Fair

The 2021 School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences Job Fair will be held in the Varsity Room in Union South on Wednesday, September 22, 10am-5pm.

Varsity Venture Studio

Attention UW-Madison community: the fall semester round of idea generation for Varsity Venture Studio is now open, and we invite you to transform your big idea into a funded software company. For this round, anyone in the UW-Madison ecosystem has until October 11th to submit their idea.

The 2021 WI Welcome at the JSM conference was a great success.

Zhengjun Zhang, Keith Levin, Nicolas Garcia Trillos, and Sebastian Raschka were the organizers. Dan Barnish posted the virtual welcome reception information in JSM 2021 program book.  The department chair, Yazhen Wang, posted the info via several departmental email lists. Participants came from Duke University, University of Connecticut, University Virginia, and our department, among many others. …

Statistics, Data and the Stories They Tell – JSM Virtual Conference

JSM 2021 Online Program

WISTATS NEWS

Greetings! Hello from Madison! We hope this e-newsletter finds you well during our time of coming back together. This past academic year the Department of Statistics continued to see growth even as we went through the pandemic. We celebrated the new data science major and the recently approved data science certificate. The data science major …

Computer Science major grows by more than 800% in just 10 years

In 2011, the computer science major at the University of Wisconsin – Madison had about 200 students. Today, it has more than 2,000. It’s now the largest major on campus, and it’s expected to keep growing. Watch Video

2020-2021 CDIS UG Chancellor Awards

Congratulations!

Space renovations for Computer Sciences and Statistics departments

Space renovations for Computer Sciences and Statistics departments help meet growing student and faculty needs.

IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture

The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science.