Evarist Giné-Masdeu, known as Evarist Giné, last June at the conference in his honor in Cambridge, UK
Evarist Giné-Masdeu—or just Evarist Giné—passed away on March 13 in Hartford, CT. He was a significant contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular…
Grégory Miermont received his education at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris from 1998–2002. He defended his PhD thesis, which was supervised by Jean Bertoin, in 2003. He also spent a year in Berkeley, 2001–02, working under the supervision of David Aldous and Jim Pitman. Miermont held a CNRS researcher…
Kavita Ramanan is a Professor at the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. She is a fellow of the IMS and a recipient of the Erlang Prize of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1998, was a post-doctoral fellow at the Technion,…
Nicolai Meinshausen is Professor of Statistics at ETH Zurich. Before taking up his current post in 2013, he was Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford and a post-doc at UC Berkeley. His IMS Medallion lecture, Causal discovery with confidence using invariance principles, will be delivered at the JSM…
In 2015 these IMS lectures have been/will be given:
At APS (Istanbul, July 5–8, 2015), Medallion Kavita Ramanan;
At SPA 2015 (Oxford, July 13–17, 2015), Schramm lecture Michel Ledoux and two Medallion lectures Scott Sheffield and Gregory Miermont; and
At JSM (Seattle, August 8–13, 2015) Wald lectures Susan Murphy, Le…