Francisco Aranda-Ordaz Prize

FRANCISCO ARANDA-ORDAZ PRIZE

Statistics

Israel Emmanuel Ambriz Lobato, for his thesis entitled “On conditional distributions via copulas and its applications: non-simplified conditional copulas, and functional quantile regression”, completed under the co-supervision of Graciela María de los Dolores González Farías and Emilien Joly at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Special Mention

Magno Tairone de Freitas Severino, for his thesis entitled “Estimation and model selection for graphical models under mixing conditions”, completed under the supervision of Florencia Leonardi at the Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Probability

Marcelo Campos, for his thesis entitled “Random Matrices, Additive Combinatorics, and Convex Geometry”, completed under the supervision of Robert Morris at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Special Mentions

José de Jesús Contreras Arredondo, for his thesis entitled “Contributions to Local Times of Spectrally Negative Lévy Processes”, completed under the supervision of Víctor Rivero at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Lucas Roberto de Lima, for his thesis entitled “Asymptotic Shape of Subadditive Processes on Groups and on Random Geometric Graphs”, completed under the co-supervision of Cristian Coletti and Daniel Valesin at the Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil.

CALL FOR THE FRANCISCO ARANDA-ORDAZ PRIZE

The LARC-SLAPEM organizes, every two/three years, a prize to honor the memory of Francisco Aranda-Ordaz, a distinguished young Mexican statistician who died tragically in 1991. Sponsored by the Bernoulli Society, the Francisco Aranda-Ordaz Award is bestowed on one thesis in Probability and one thesis in Statistics completed by students at a Latin American institution, or in a joint program with a Latin American institution (note the changes in the application conditions compared to previous editions of the award). The winners are invited to present their works at the CLAPEM meeting.

Dissertations defended during the period of March 2023 to September 2025 are eligible for consideration in this edition of the Award.

A complete submission consists of:

• The complete dissertation, submitted in electronic form. 

• The official university final exam form, signed by the student's doctoral committee or by other university officials, as appropriate. 

• A letter from the thesis advisor stating that he/she agrees to submit the dissertation for consideration of the award committee.

The official languages of the Award are Spanish, Portuguese, English and French. The Committee will consider other languages as an exception.

Nominations should be sent in electronic form to premio.aranda.ordaz@gmail.com. 

The nomination period closed on October 31. 

The Award Committee for 2023-2025 is coordinated by Santiago Saglietti (chair). The Committee will notify the award winners by December 31, 2025. Awardees will be invited to attend the XVII CLAPEM to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2-6, 2026, to present their work in a Special Invited Session.