Promotion des mathématiques

Medallion Award and Lecture for Victor Panaretos

Published:10.01.25 — EPFL Professor Victor Panaretos has been honored with an IMS Medallion Award for his outstanding work on statistics and will deliver a Medallion Lecture at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nomination of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud

Published:25.09.24 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud as Associate Professor of Statistics in the School of Basic Sciences (SB)

Emmanuel Abbé receives Frontier of Science Award

Published:25.09.24 — EPFL Professor Emmanuel Abbé has been honored with the 2024 Frontier of Science Award for his pioneering work on principal component analysis and spectral clustering.

Large Language Models feel the direction of time

Published:16.09.24 — Researchers have found that AI large language models, like GPT-4, are better at predicting what comes next than what came before in a sentence. This “Arrow of Time” effect could reshape our understanding of the structure of natural language, and the way these models understand it.

11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics

Published:13.08.24 — On August 12th, Victor Panaretos, who holds the EPFL chair of mathematical statistics, opened the Bernoulli-IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2024, in his capacity of President of the Bernoulli Society (jointly with Michael Kosorok the president of the IMS).