/research/taxonomy/term/318/all en /research/article/calculating-odds-nets-professor-big-prize <p>Devising ways of estimating the probability of rare events is a big part of what Professor <a href="https://www.math.mcgill.ca/cgenest/">Christian Genest </a>does each day in his statistical research. He may not have predicted, however, that he would be the 2020 recipient of the John L. Synge Award, as conferred by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for outstanding research in any branch of the mathematical sciences.</p> Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:58:51 +0000 Junji Nishihata 754 at /research