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Featuring news about Rami Atar, F. Jay Breidt, Alexander Goldenshluger, Thomas C.M. Lee, Bin Nan, Richard Samworth, Martin Wainwright, Harrison H. Zhou; Christopher Genovese; H.N. Nagaraja
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2014 annual IMS elections. The next President-Elect is Richard Davis. The newly-elected Council members are Peter Bühlmann, Florentina Bunea, Geoffrey Grimmett, Jonathan Taylor, Aad van der Vaart and Naisyin Wang.
Jonathan Taylor is serving a two-year term, and the others three…
Beginning this year, the IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. Available for nomination this year are the 2016 Wald and Rietz Lecturers, and the 2017 Medallion Lecturers. See https://imstat.org/ims-awards/
Deadline for nominations is October 1.
The submission process is simple: send the…
We announce the class of new IMS Fellows for 2014, who will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at the IMS-ASC meeting in Sydney. Congratulations, Fellows!
The Fellows, and their citations, are:
Rami Atar:
for his fundamental contributions in applied and theoretical probability theory, specifically the…
Contributing Editor David Hand writes:
How should we measure national wellbeing? The first stage in answering such a question is deciding exactly what it is that we’re talking about. It’s clear, at least for national wellbeing, that the definition of what we want to measure and the procedure we construct…