From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle, August 6-8, 2015 (just before JSM). The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in probability and statistics. If you received a PhD in or after 2010, or expect…
Peter Bickel received a Doctor honoris causa from ETH Zurich on November 22, 2014. The translation (from German) of the laudatio reads “…for fundamental contributions in semiparametric, robust and high-dimensional statistics, and for seminal influence in mathematical statistics and its applications.” (The full text, in German, is at https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/Dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf)
Peter…
We are saddened to bring news that five of our community have passed away recently. We do not yet have full details, but obituaries will appear for these colleagues in due course.
Steven F. Arnold, Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, passed away December 6. He was born in…
There is still time to nominate someone for IMS Fellowship or to receive the Harry C. Carver Award, or to apply for an IMS Travel Award.
IMS Fellowship:
IMS Fellows have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability by publication of independent work of merit (this may be waived…
The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
The…