The 2019 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are supporting 11 new researchers to attend the following meetings. If you’re there, please look out for them and say hello!
Statistics conference in honour of Aad van der Vaart’s 60th birthday (June 17–21, Leiden, The Netherlands): Bo Ning, Yale.
IMS China Meeting…
The Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan marks its 50th anniversary this September. Its Department Chair, Xuming He, reports:
In 1912, James W. Glover, a Professor of Mathematics who specialized in actuarial science, taught the first course devoted entirely to statistical theory at the University of Michigan. In…
We are pleased to announce the 25 new IMS Fellows selected in 2019. They will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at JSM, on Monday July 29: do join us!
Edoardo M. Airoldi, Co-Director, Data Science Institute, and Millard E Gladfelter Professor of Statistics &…
IMS President Xiao-Li Meng writes another President’s Column:
We statisticians have successfully—perhaps too successfully—taught everyone that the larger the size, the higher the power to lend credence to an alternative. This is evident from the 2017 Nature Human Behaviour’s “Redefine Statistical Significance,” which has over 70 authors, and from the…
