Newly elected IMS Fellow Herold Dehling was unable to be in Toronto for the presentation ceremony, but a few weeks afterwards he and Richard Davis were at the same conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, so they took the opportunity and Richard presented Herold with his plaque.…
ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, established three awards to honour individuals who have helped to broaden the use of statistics in business and industry. Among these is the Box Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to business and industrial statistics. It is named after George Box,…
Our columnist Terry Speed is interviewed in the September 2016 issue of Amstat News, in the section on influential mentors. He talks with Jean Yang about interdisciplinary research, his career and the role of mentors. You can read the full interview at http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/09/01/terryspeedinterview/…
We are delighted to announce that Vlada Limic will be the next Editor of the IMS Bulletin, taking over from Anirban DasGupta when his three-year term ends in December 2016.
Vlada is a CNRS research director at Université Paris Sud 11. She has been a contributing editor of the IMS…
The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the Ethel Newbold Prize. The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years, next time in spring 2017. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for…