The 15 recipients of this year’s IMS Travel Awards

The IMS Travel Awards provide funding for travel to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html

Abhishek Chakrabortty	Shih-Kang Chao	Emilie Devijver
Harvard University, USA	Purdue University, USA	KU Leuven, Belgium
Ethan X. Fang	Fengnan Gao	Edward Kennedy
Penn State University, USA	Leiden University, The Netherlands	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sebastian Kurtek	Andrew J. Landgraf	Matey Neykov
The Ohio State University, USA	Battelle Memorial Institute, USA	Princeton University, USA
Yang Ning	Gunwoong Park	Kolyan Ray
Princeton University, USA	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA	Leiden University, The Netherlands
Srijan Sengupta	Botond Szabó	Weichen Wang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	Leiden Univ and Budapest University of Technology & Economics	Princeton University, USA

Where are these New Researchers going with their awards?

Edward Kennedy will be traveling to Avignon, France, for the Third Conference of the International Society for Non-Parametric Statistics (ISNPS), June 11–16, 2016 w http://www.isnpstat.org/.

Shih-Kang Chao will use his travel award for the IMS Asia Pacific Rim meeting that takes place June 27–30, 2016, hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong w https://ims-aprm2016.sta.cuhk.edu.hk/.

The 9th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, hosted by the Fields Institute, Toronto from July 11–15, 2016, is also the location of the IMS Annual Meeting. Attending the World Congress will be Fengnan Gao, Gunwoong Park, Kolyan Ray and Botond Szabó. Meeting details at w www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/16-17/WC2016/

The remaining recipients—Abhishek Chakrabortty, Emilie Devijver, Ethan X. Fang, Sebastian Kurtek, Andrew J. Landgraf, Matey Neykov, Yang Ning, Srijan Sengupta and Weichen Wang—will be attending JSM 2016 in Chicago, July 30–August 4: w https://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/

If you are attending any of these meetings yourself, do go and introduce yourselves and, if you can, listen to their talks or look at their posters.

Want to apply for next year?

If you are a new researcher interested in attending an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting (other than the New Researchers Conference, which is funded separately), check out the information on how to apply at http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html