The 31st Pfizer/ASA/UConn Distinguished Statistician Colloquium
October 29, 2025
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, Storrs Campus
2:30 PM Registration and Light Refreshments
3:00 PM Lecture
4:00 PM Interview
5:30 – 8:00 PM Banquet, The Alumni Center
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31st Distinguished Statistician Colloquium
The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut is honored to announce the 31st Distinguished Statistician Colloquium. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012 and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series has featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox, Nan Laird, Grace Wahba and many more.
The purpose of the Colloquium is to provide a forum for distinguished statisticians to share and disseminate their unique perspective and work in the theory and/or application of statistics. Starting from 2018, the series has been co-sponsored by Pfizer, the American Statistical Association (ASA), and the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.
This year’s speaker will be Thomas A. Louis, Professor emeritus, Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Professor Louis will give a presentation entitled, “Trade-offs in Statistics: There is no free lunch, but reduced-price meals abound,” under the auspices of the Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians in Honor of Dr. David S. Salsburg.
Following the lecture will be the Conversation with Distinguished Statisticians in Memory of Professor Harry O. Posten. This discussion with Professor Louis will be led by Susan Paddock, Executive Vice President & Chief Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago, and J. Sunil Rao, Director of Biostatistics, Masonic Cancer Center, and Professor of Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health.
If you have questions, please contact conferences@uconn.edu.
We thank Pfizer and the ASA for their generous financial support. We also thank the members of the selection committee – Dan Meyer and Demissie Alemayehu from Pfizer, Ron Wasserstein and Nancy Flournoy from the ASA, and Dipak Dey (Chair), Joseph Glaz and Ming-Hui Chen from the University of Connecticut. Professor Chen also represents the New England Statistical Society (NESS).
For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu