Coming up in 2018, we have a number of special lectures at IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.

Most of these will be delivered at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, held in conjunction with the 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (July 2–6, 2018). The Wald Lectures will be delivered by Luc Devroye; the 2018 Le Cam Lecturer is Ruth Williams; the Neyman Lecturer is Peter Bühlmann, and the Schramm Lecturer is Yuval Peres. Six Medallion lectures will also be given at this meeting, by Jean Bertoin, Svante Janson, Thomas Mikosch, Sonia Petrone, Richard Samworth and Allan Sly. See http://ims-vilnius2018.com/plenary-speakers/

Anthony Davison and Ming Yuan will give their Medallion lectures at JSM in Vancouver (July 28–August 2, 2018). See https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/index.cfm

SPA 2018, the 40th Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference in Gothenburg, Sweden (June 11–15, 2018) will feature two Medallion lectures, by Anna De Masi and Davar Khoshnevisan. (The conference will also feature a Lévy lecture from Alison Etheridge, a Doob lecture from Jeffrey Steif, and ten Plenary lectures from Robert Adler, Francois Baccelli, Mia Deijfen, Patricia Gonçalves, Kurt Johansson, Olav Kallenberg, Mikhail Menshikov, Annie Millet, Asaf Nachmias and Nike Sun.) See http://spa2018.org/programme/plenary-speakers/