Hadley Wickham wins the prestigious 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, is the recipient of the 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of COPSS in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of…
Nominations are open for three awards, to be presented next year at JSM in Philadelphia.
Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send nominations, preferably by email in PDF format, to the committee chairs. The deadline for nominations for all three awards…
The 2018 Treasurer’s Report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2018. The 2018 fiscal year-end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2019, after the auditors have completed the annual process.
In 2018, the total number of IMS members decreased, as did subscriptions…
It’s time to think about nominating your outstanding colleagues and collaborators for these IMS awards: Hall and Tweedie awards (see separate posts), Carver Medal and IMS Fellowship.
Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to…
Canadian statistician Marc Moore passed away on July 26, 2019, following a long illness. He was 77. A graduate of Université de Montréal, Canada, he was a professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal from 1971 to his retirement at the end of 2002. He was Chair of the Applied Mathematics…