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Alberto Fernández-de-Marcos has obtained a Student Travel Award for the 2026 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), to be held in Split (Croatia) from 15th to 18th December 2026. The awards are given by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) to outstanding PhD students to participate in the conference.
Naroa Martín-Casado joins NICDA through a research assistant position within the ‘Nonparametric Statistical Inference for Non-Euclidean, Dependent, and Censored Data’ (NSINED) project! Naroa starts her PhD in Statistics for Data Science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in September 2026.
The paper “On $m$-points uniformity tests on hyperspheres”, coauthored by Alberto Fernández-de-Marcos, Eduardo García-Portugués, and Thomas Verdebout, has been accepted for publication in the renowned Bernoulli!
Andrea Meilán-Vila has been promoted to Associate Professor (Profesora Titular de Universidad)! She secured the position in the public competition held on May 28, 2026.
The next book to be read in the Statistics Reading Group will be Asymptotic Stochastics by Norbert Henze. The book provides a comprehension-oriented, detailed, and gentle introduction to asymptotic stochastics, covering basic, advanced, and current research topics. It does so in a particularly clear and pedagogical style that embraces self-questions, gives historical remarks, and provides numerous examples and solved exercises, thus being a useful resource for lecturers and students.
The paper “On a class of Sobolev tests for symmetry, their detection thresholds, and asymptotic powers”, coauthored by Eduardo García-Portugués, Davy Paindaveine, and Thomas Verdebout, has been accepted for publication in the renowned Journal of the American Statistical Association! The preprint can be checked on the arXiv.
Alberto Fernández-de-Marcos has obtained the Mardia Poster Award for the best poster in the International Workshop on Advances in Directional Statistics (ADISTA) held at the University of Luxembourg from 10th to 12th September 2025. ADISTA is the leading international conference on directional statistics.
The project NSINED (PID2024-158399NB-I00), co-led by Eduardo García-Portugués and Andrea Meilán-Vila, has been funded through the “Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2024” call. The project is developed at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Among the researchers within the project are José E. Chacón, Silvia Novo, Rebeca Peláez, Diego Serrano, Ewa Strzałkowska-Kominiak, Iñaki Úcar, and Thomas Verdebout.