Adolphe Wetrems prize

January 13 2022

for Thomas Verdebout

December 2021 : Thomas Verdebout has been awarded the the Adolphe Wetrems prize from the Belgian Academy of Sciences.

“Le prix Adolphe Wetrems de sciences mathématiques et physiques, nonante-cinquième période annuelle, est décerné à M. Thomas Verdebout, chargé de cours de Statistiques Mathématique à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, pour ses contributions remarquables sur l’analyse de variables multidimensionnelles en statistique mathématique, et en particulier à l’inférence en grande dimension et à la statistique des variables directionnelles.”

CONGRATULATIONS Thomas !

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