Editing Persi Diaconis (section)

==Recognition==
*1982 – Awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] 
*1982 – Awarded the [[Davidson Prize|Rollo Davidson Prize]]
*1990 – Invited Speaker of the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] (ICM)<ref>{{cite book|author=Diaconis, Persi|chapter=Applications of group representations to statistical problems|title=Proceedings of the ICM, Kyoto, Japan|pages=1037–1048|year=1990}}</ref>
*1995 – Elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]]
*1997 – Gibbs Lecturer, [[American Mathematical Society]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Patterns in eigenvalues: the 70th Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=2003|volume=40|issue=2|pages=155–178|mr=1962294|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-03-00975-3|last1=Diaconis|first1=Persi|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*1998 – Plenary Speaker of the ICM<ref>{{cite book|author=Diaconis, Persi|chapter=From shuffling cards to walking around the building: An introduction to modern Markov chain theory|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I|year=1998|pages=187–204|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011721000}}</ref>
*2003 – Received an Honorary D. Sci. from the [[University of Chicago]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Salsburg, David |title=The lady tasting tea: how statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century |url=https://archive.org/details/ladytastingteaho0000sals |url-access=registration |publisher=W.H. Freeman and CO |location=New York |year=2001 |isbn=0-8050-7134-2 }}. Cf. p.224</ref>
*2005 – Elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Persi+Diaconis&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-05-25|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
*2006 – Awarded the [[Van Wijngaarden Award]]
*2012 – Awarded the [[Levi L. Conant Prize]]<ref name="Kehoe2012">{{cite journal|last1=Kehoe|first1=Elaine|title=2012 Conant Prize|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=59|issue=4|year=2012|pages=1|issn=0002-9920|doi=10.1090/noti824|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*2012 – Fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]]<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2012-11-10</ref>
*2013 – Received an Honorary Degree from the [[University of St Andrews]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/600/events/celebration/graduationceremony/ |title=Graduation ceremony &#124; 600th Anniversary &#124; University of St Andrews - 1413-2013 |access-date=2014-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093041/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/600/events/celebration/graduationceremony/ |archive-date=2014-04-07 }}</ref>
*2014 – Recipient of [[Cahit Arf]] Lecture by [[Middle East Technical University]]