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Prof. Mats Stensrud wins two awards for young statisticians

Published:19.09.23 — Prof. Mats Stensrud, head of the Chair of Biostatistics (BIOSTAT) has been awarded both the Arthur-Linder prize by the Austria-Switzerland region of the International Biometric Society (IBS, ROeS) and the Lambert Prize by the Swiss Statistical Society (SSS).

ICML Outstanding Paper Award for an Apple-MATH EPFL collaboration

Published:19.09.23 — A Paper co-written by Pr. Emmanuel Abbé (EPFL, MDS), Pr. Samy Bengio (Apple), Aryo Lofti (EPFL, MDS) and Kevin Rizk (EPFL) has been awarded the ICML Outstanding Paper Award 2023

Appointment of EPFL professors

Published:13.07.23 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL.

Dr Alice Cortinovis wins the SWICCOMAS prize 2023

Published:02.03.23 — Dr. Alice Cortinovis (ANCHP) was awarded the SWICCOMAS prize 2023 for her thesis on Fast deterministic and randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation, matrix functions, and trace estimation.

Tossing coins to understand spheres

Published:14.02.23 — EPFL mathematicians, in collaboration with Purdue University, have settled a 30-year-old question about spheres and 4-dimensional spaces. The results bring new light to the "Euler Class," one of the most powerful tools to understand complicated spaces.