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Announcements and News

Openings for Professor (all ranks) and a Senior Lecturer, a PhD-level statistician to teach in and supervise our undergraduate program.

We welcome Peter Hall, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia, as our honored speaker for our annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures, on November 9 and 12, 2009.

The Department congratulates Prof. Per Mykland on being named Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor.

Honorary Degree Recipient, David L. Donoho, Stanford University, received our degree at the 500th Convocation (http://www.uchicago.edu/features/20091009_500convocation.shtml).

The Department welcomes Xiaowei Wu as a Postdoctoral Scholar working with Prof. Mary Sara McPeek and Laura Rigazzi as a temporary administrative staff member.

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Department Events This Week

AMIT SINGER, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, will present a seminar entitled, "Spectral Methods and Semidefinite Programming for Cryo-EM, NMR Spectroscopy, Low Rank Matrix Completion and Computer," on Monday, November 2, 2009, at 4PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue. Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.