Grace Wahba's Picture Gallery

Gabor Szekely visits the Thursday group plus friends, Tuesday, February 19, 2008.

Great talk, covering everything from Thales (600 BC) to the broader impact of broader impacts.

David Page and Eric Lantz visit the Thursday Group, October 25, 2007.

Very nteresting data mining problems.

Thursday Group September 2007

Thursday group gets ready for the new academic year.

Fudan University Shanghai for the Third International Conference on Harmonic Analysis, June 17, 2007.

In front of the Book Sculpture

University of Chicago June 2007-Grace Wahba receives the Honorary Doctor of Science degree.

Pictures from the ceremony.

"The Academics"

Thursday Group January 2007

Thursday group kicking off the spring semester.

At the Banff International Research Station, January 16, 2007.

Afternoon off at the "Mathematical Programming in Machine Learning and Data Mining" conference.

John Carew graduates, December 6, 2006

At the Kohl Center on a blustery winter day

Sushi, sashimi, noodles and beer at Edo

Doug Nychka visits the Thursday Group, September 28, 2006

A new method for robust nonparametric regression.

Steve Wright visits the Thursday Group September 7, 2006, along with visitors from ECE.

A bracing talk on optimization

Thursday Group 2006

Thursday group kicks off a new academic year.

Graduation 2006

Fan Lu and Meng Chen graduate, escorted by their advisors Grace Wahba and Christina Kendziorski

Graduation Dinner for Fan Lu

Steve Goldstein visits the Thursday Group, December 17, 2005.

Deepayan Sardar, John Carew, Yongho Jeon, Steve Goldstein, Fan Lu, Grace Wahba, Jingci Meng, Hyonho Chun, Weiliang Shi

Dinner at the Sa-bai Thong, December 15, 2005.

Weiliang Shi, John Carew, Grace Wahba, Fan Lu, MIng Chen, David Callan, Sang-Hoon Cho, Hyonho Chun, Yongho Jeon, Jingci Meng.

Jerry Zhu visits the Thursday Group, October 21, 2005.

John Carew, Yongho Jeon, Weiliang Shi, Jerry Zhu, Grace Wahba, Hyonho Chun, Fan Lu

Ramani Pilla visits the Thursday Group, October 7, 2005.

Weiliang Shi, John Carew, Grace Wahba, Ramani Pilla, Yongho Jeon, Hyonho Chun

The Thursday Group visits Rob Nowak, Barry VanVeen and their students, September 28, 2005.

Rob Nowak, Barry VanVeen, Grace Wahba and students

At the Noether Awards Ceremony at JSM 2005, Manny Parzen, Gerda Claeskens honored.

G. Wahba, Manny Parzen, Gerda Claeskens and Marvin Zelen

Graduation Dinner for Xianhong Xie, August 2005

Great Food at the China Palace

Stephen Boyd visits the Thursday Group, escorted by Steve Wright, October 2004

Here's the crowd, a cheery bunch

Thursday Group September 2004

First pictures in our new digs at 1300 University Ave

Graduation 2004

Before the Graduation Dinner at the Imperial Gardens
David Callan and Grace Wahba at the Graduation Dinner
Jiaqin Chen, Ming Yuan, Chenlei Leng and Hui Yu at CS-Stat.
Last graduation from 1210 W. Dayton St. before moving to University Avenue
Chenlei Leng, Grace Wahba, Yi Lin and Ming Yuan at the Kohl Center.

Jianqing Fan visits Madison, Dinner at the SabaiThong, February 25, 2004

Jianqing Fan and Grace Wahba

Michael Jordan visits Madison, February 19, 2004

Michael Jordan and the Thursday Group

Rob Nowak and Students Visit the Thursday Group, October 10, 2003.

here's everyone

Surprise dinner at JSM, August 2003

Some pictures from the Dinner, under construction

Thursday Group September 2002

Students and Faculty of The Thursday Group, looking serous..

Graduation 2002

In order of appearance, left to right:

Yoonkyung Lee, Grace Wahba, Hao Helen Zhang at CS-Stat.
Hao Helen Zhang, Yoonkyung Lee, Grace Wahba, Yi Lin at CS-Stat.
Pre Graduation Dinner at the Imperial Gardens.
Yi Lin, Grace Wahba, Hao Helen Zhang, Yoonkyung Lee at the Kohl Center.

Thursday Group May 2002

Students of the Thursday Group-`The Lineup'
Thursday Group, all thinking...
The women of the Thursday Group
The men of the Thursday Group

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The NAS-Cake 2000: Carolyn DeL. it was yummy

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Manny Parzen's 60th Birthday Party, 1989.

Don Ylvisaker, Grace Wahba, Joe Newton, Marcello Pagano, Randy Eubank, Manny Parzen, Will Alexander, Marvin Zelen, Scott Grimshaw.

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