Meet the 2025 IMS special invited lecturers (i.e. those selected to give named and Medallion lectures). These will be delivered at three IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings next year.

The first of these meetings is the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which will take place June 30–July 3, 2025, at the Georgia Tech Exhibition Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. This meeting will feature two Medallion lectures, by René Carmona (Princeton) and Nike Sun (MIT). For more information about the meeting, please see https://informs-aps.isye.gatech.edu/

The IMS co-sponsored Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA), in Wrocław, Poland, from 14–18 July, 2025, will feature among the plenary lectures the Bernoulli Society/IMS Schramm lecturer by Sunder Sethuraman (University of Arizona).

The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, August 2–7. JSM2025 will feature the following IMS lectures:

• two Wald lectures, by Jianqing Fan (Princeton)

• IMS Neyman lecture by Regina Liu (Rutgers)

• IMS Grace Wahba lecture by Richard Samworth (Cambridge)

• IMS Rietz lecture by Kathryn Roeder (Carnegie Mellon)

• IMS Le Cam lecture by Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley; rescheduled from 2024)

• five IMS Medallion lectures, by Ery Arias-Castro (UC San Diego), Florentina Bunea (Cornell), Sandrine Dudoit (UC Berkeley), Boaz Nadler (Weizmann), and Victor Panaretos (EPF Lausanne).

Also at JSM, the Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student award winners, Louis V. Cammarata (Harvard University), Ying Jin (Harvard University) and George Stepaniants (California Institute of Technology) [see previous issue] 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 2024–25 President, Tony Cai.

See https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2025/index.cfm for information about the Joint Statistical Meetings.

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