Next year there will be an impressive list of invited speakers at a range of IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.

First up in 2024, Sébastien Roch will give a Medallion Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes. SSP2024 takes place in Houston, TX, from March 14–16. See https://ssp2024.rice.edu/home.

The 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (August 3–8, 2024, in Portland, Oregon) will feature the IMS Grace Wahba lecture by Nancy Reid, and three IMS Medallion lectures, by Alicia Carriquiry, Jing Lei, and Annie Qu. See https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2024/index.cfm for information about the meeting.

Finally for 2024, at the 11th Bernoulli–IMS World Congress (August 12–16, 2024, in Bochum, Germany), there will be a range of named and special lectures. The two Wald lectures will be given by Peter Bühlmann and the Le Cam lecture by Peter Bickel; the four IMS Medallion lectures will be delivered by Moulinath Banerjee, Marc Hallin, Remco van der Hofstad, and Chunming Zhang.

The Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student award winners, Filippo Ascolani, Chanwoo Lee, and Yuling Yan [see last issue’s cover article] will give their talks at the special session, as will those chosen by the IMS New Researchers Group (whose names are to be confirmed). The IMS Presidential Address will be given by the 2023–24 President, Michael Kosorok.

There will also be three IMS/BS lectures: the Doob lecturer will be Pablo Ferrari, as well as two IMS/Bernoulli Society Schramm Lectures, by Patricia Gonçalves (rearranged from 2023) and Nina Holden.Read more about the World Congress at https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/

Look out for previews from these special invited lecturers in the forthcoming issues of the IMS Bulletin.