SSC Gold Medal awarded to Cindy Greenwood

The 2024 Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is awarded to Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood, professor emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. The citation for the Gold Medal Award, which is given to one person each year for outstanding and continuing contributions to probability theory and/or the statistical sciences, reads: “To Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood, for fundamental and highly original contributions to the theory of stochastic processes and to statistical inference for complex stochastic models; and for insightful illumination of stochastic mechanisms in neuroscience and other scientific disciplines.”

Cindy Greenwood is an IMS Fellow, and was awarded the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2002. In 2008–2009 a Festschrift, in the form of a special volume of Stochastics, was put together in her honor, published as part of the now discontinued IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series. The lead article is a thoughtful summary of her contributions up to that point by Igor Evstegneev and Nick Bingham, entitled “Priscilla Greenwood: Queen of Probability.” (You can download the January/February 2009 issue of the IMS Bulletin, to read an article about this by Bingham and Evstegneev). She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2020 “for contributions to the fields of statistics and mathematics, and for her pioneering work in probability theory.”

Read more at https://ssc.ca/en/awards/2024/cindy-greenwood-ssc-gold-medalist-2024

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is awarded annually by the SSC to the author(s) of an article published in the previous year in the journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the paper’s methodological innovation and presentation. The authors honored are Cong Jiang, Michael Wallace, and [IMS member] Mary Thompson, for their paper, “Dynamic treatment regimes with interference.”

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté wins CRM–SSC Prize in Statistics 2024

The CRM–SSC Prize in Statistics recognizes a statistical scientist’s excellence and accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after earning his/her doctorate (or equivalent degree). It is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques and the Statistical Society of Canada. This year’s winner is Alexandre Bouchard-Côté from the University of British Columbia. More at https://ssc.ca/en/awards/2024/alexandre-bouchard-cote-crm-ssc-prize-statistics-2024

SSC Lise Manchester Award

IMS member Christian Genest (McGill University), together with Jonathan Jalbert (Polytechnique Montréal) and Luc Perreault (Institut de recherche d’Hydro- Québec) are the recipients of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award. This award is given every other year by the Statistical Society of Canada to commemorate the late Dr Lise Manchester’s abiding interest in using statistical methods to study matters of relevance to society. The award recognizes excellence in statistical research that helps guide public policy in Canada.

See https://ssc.ca/en/award-winners