The Penn State Department of Statistics will hold the C.R. Rao Prize Conference, a daylong event that includes talks, a poster session, and the awarding of the prestigious C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize, on Tuesday, May 20, in Berg Auditorium, 100 Huck Life Sciences Building, at Penn State University Park. The conference is open to the University community.
This year's conference will feature a keynote, titled "Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression," presented by 2025 C.R. Rao Prize winner Trevor Hastie, the John A. Overdeck Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.
The conference will also feature lectures by top statisticians including Hui Zou, the Dr. Lynn Y.S. Lin Professor in Statistics at the University of Minnesota, who will present the C.G. Khatri Memorial Lecture, and Martin Wainwright, the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will present the P.R. Krishnaiah Memorial Lecture.
