Pierre-Simon de Laplace Prize 2022

February 7 2022

We are proud to announce that the “Pierre-Simon de Laplace Prize 2022” has been awarded to Marc Hallin by the Société française de Statistique (SFdS).

We are proud to announce that the “Pierre-Simon de Laplace Prize 2022” has been awarded to Marc Hallin by the Société française de Statistique (SFdS). This prize, which is the SFdS’s highest scientific distinction, is awarded every three years and rewards the lifetime achievementof a statistician who has made a significant contribution to the development of statistics in France. The prize will be given to Marc during the annual meeting of the French Statistical Society to be held in Lyon in June.

Previous laureates were Luc Devroye (McGill) in 2019, Emmanuel Candès (Stanford) in 2016, Christian Gouriéroux (CREST and Toronto) in 2013.

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