The Francisco Aranda-Ordaz Prize

LARC-SLAPEM organizes every two/three years the Francisco Aranda-Ordaz Prize. It is a Ph. D. thesis contest sponsored by the Bernoulli Society, created to honor the memory of a distinguished young Mexican statistician who died tragically in 1991.

The prize is awarded for one thesis in Probability and one thesis in Statistics written by students from Latin America regardless of the country of the university offering the degree. The winners are invited to present their works at the CLAPEM meeting.

Recent winners are: 

• 2023, Statistics Prize

Maria Gil Leyva Villa. Dissertation title: "Stick Breaking processes and related random probability measures", UNAM, Mexico. Advisor: Ramsés Humberto Mena Chávez. 

Honorable Mention: Uriel Moreira. Dissertation title: "A General Framework for Sequential Parameter Learning in Hidden  Markov  Models", Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Advisors: Luiz Henrique Duczmal and Denise Bulgarelli Duczmal.

• 2023, Probability Prize

Felipe Muñoz-Hernández. Dissertation title “Approximation quantitative en grande population de modèles stochastiques avec interaction ou environnement variable”, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Advisors: Vincent Bansaye and Joaquín Fontbona.

Honorable mention: Roberto Viveros. Dissertation title “HeavyTails and Random Polymers”, IMPA, Brazil. Advisor: Hubert Lacoin. 

• 2019, Statistics Prize, shared by 

Leonardo Fabián Moreno Romero. Dissertation title: "Estadística para datos en espacios no euclídeos: Algunas contribuciones", Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Advisors: Ricardo Fraiman and Frabrice Gamboa 

María Antonella Gieco. Dissertation title: "Dimensión efectiva en escenarios de alta dimensionalidad". Universidad del Litoral, Argentina. Advisors: Liliana Forzani and Carlos Tolmasky.

• 2019, Probability Prize

Avelio Sepúlveda. Dissertation title: "Exit sets of the continuum Gaussian free field in two dimensions and related questions". ETH Zurich. Advisor: Wendelin Werner.

Honorable Mention: Érika B. Roldán Roa. Dissertation title: "Topological, geometric and combinatorial properties of random polyominoes". Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, México. Advisors: Víctor Pérez-Abreu y Matthew Kahle.

• 2016, Statistics Prize

Nicolas Garcia Trillos.
Dissertation title: "Variational limit of graph cuts on point clouds" under direction of Dejan Slepcev.

• 2016, Probability Prize

Roberto Amaru Cortez Milán. Dissertation title: "Propagacíon de caos para sistemas de partículas de interacción de salto puro" under direction of Joaquin Fontbona Torres.

• 2014, Statistics Prize

Alejandro Cholaquidis. Dissertation title: "Técnicas de teoría geométrica de la medida en estimación de conjuntos”  (Geometric measure techniques applied to set estimation”), under direction of Ricardo Fraiman and Antonio Cuevas.

• 2014, Probability Prize

Julián Facundo Martínez. Dissertation title: "Dynamical Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions and Brownian percolation" under direction of  Frank den Hollander and Roberto Fernández.

• 2011, Statistics Prize

Pamela Nerina Llop. Dissertation title:  ``Densidades, Regresion y Clasificacion para Datos Funcionales (Densities, Regression and Classification for Functional Data)'', under direction of Drs. Liliana Forzani and Ricardo Fraiman.

• 2011, Probability Prize

 Antonio (Tuca) Auffinger,  PhD in Mathematics, New York University, USA, in 2011.
Dissertation title  ``Random Matrices, Complexity of Spin Glasses and Heavy Tailed Processes'', under the direction of Dr. Gerard Ben Arous.

• 2009,  Probability Prize

Sebastián Grynberg, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his thesis "Construcción y simulación perfecta de campos markovianos con splines", adviser Pablo Ferrari.

• 2009,  Statistics Prize

Maria da Gloria Abage de Lima, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, for her thesis "Essays on heteroskedasticity", adviser Francisco Cribari.

 

Last Updated: Tuesday, 03 October 2023 08:38