ASA student chapter is holding a stat pizza social for prospective stats majors and we invite you to share your wisdom to these underclassmen at the event! Join us at 7:00 pm on April 22, 2024 in the Frank Morgan Library for pizza and an opportunity to socialize with your fellow Stats majors and prospective Stats majors ..read more

Mathematics and Statistics Junior Majors are encouraged to consider applying to write a thesis in the Mathematics and Statistics Department during all or part of the academic year 2024-2025. Writing a thesis in Mathematics or Statistics is a rewarding process that will allow you to work on an exciting research project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The deadline for submitting the thesis application form is April 22, 2024 (at 11:59pm ET). Mathematics and Statistics 2024-25 Thesis Application For more information, please join the Mathematics and Statistics faculty on Friday April 1 ..read more

Applications to become a Teaching Assistant in Math/Stats for Fall 2024 are currently being accepted. Please apply by Friday, April 19, 2024 ..read more

Come Celebrate Pi Day! March 14 Frank Morgan Library 12:30 – 1:30pm Pizza and pie provided by the Association of Women in Math ..read more

The results are in for the 84th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition!  In December, twenty Williams students competed in the grueling six-hour exam.  Our team was led by Jonathan Geller and Yuan Qiu who both scored in the top 250. Thanks to all who participated! For more info on the Putnam results, and if you’d like to see the Putnam questions themselves, visit the competition website at this link ..read more

RIT COLLEGE MATH COMPETITION WHEN March 22nd/23rd, 2024 Duration: 3hrs WHERE At your college/university REGISTRATION Ask your professor to register you. WEBSITE https://people.rit.edu/smsmathprob For more information, email Professor Miller at sjm1@williams.edu ..read more

AWM Spring Kick-Off Dinner Thursday, February 22nd 6-7 pm Frank Morgan Library Come join the Association for Women in Math (AWM) for our first event of the semester! We will be having dinner from Spice Root on Thursday, 2/22 from 6 to 7 pm at the Frank Morgan Library. Everyone is welcome to stop by, and we are excited to see you all ..read more

Colloquium Fest 2024 Please join us for the 2024 Colloquium Fest hosted by the department of Mathematics & Statistics. Please find below the schedule: 9:30 – 10:20 am       Bronfman Auditorium        Ammar Eltigani (Thesis Defense)    10:30 – 11:10 am     Bronfman Auditorium           Elijah Washington  10:30 – 11:10 am     NSB 017                                 Jon Carl  10:30 – 11:10 am     ..read more

Title: Recording (Statistical) Errors in Baseball by Dr. Katy McKeough Abstract: Understanding uncertainties from statistical and machine learning models is crucial in making informed, data-based decisions in sports analytics. Whether you are assigning value to a player or making recommendations to a coach, it is valuable to quantify and communicate variance around your predictions. This talk will review a way to estimate the uncertainty around a win probability model for Major League Baseball games and show how it can be used to make informed decisions for in-game strategy. Date: 12/5 Tue 1:1 ..read more

Joint Computer Science + Statistics Colloquium: Mike Baiocchi ’03 and Jordan Rodu ’05 Tuesday, October 31st @ 7:00pm in Wege  ***Stats Colloquium credit for attendance and Spooky Snacks provided!*** Outcome Reasoning: the under-discussed engine powering black box algorithms We’ll start this talk discussing a couple of studies: (i) a randomized trial to evaluate a sexual assault prevention program in Nairobi, Kenya and (ii) a remote detection operation to find and disrupt labor trafficking in the Amazon rainforest. These are both “data science” projects but they are wildly different in how ..read more