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Congratulations to the 16 new IMS Fellows elected this year! They will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at the World Congress, on Monday, July 11 at 6:30pm.
Marek Biskup, for excellent research in the interface of probability theory and statistical physics.
Emery Neal Brown, for…
The C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize for Outstanding Research in Statistics was established to honor and recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the field of statistics. The Rao Prize…
If you’re attending JSM in Chicago, come and meet other early-career researchers at the IMS New Researchers Group Mixer. It’s on Monday, August 1, 2016 from 6:30–8:00 pm in the Joliet Room in the Hilton. See you there!…
As we reported in the last issue, Larry Wasserman was among five IMS Fellows recently elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. We’ll be writing about them them in the coming issues, and to start us off, Stephen E. Fienberg from Carnegie Mellon University, writes a profile about …