From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President, and for five places on the IMS Council. If you’re an IMS member, you should have received an email from the IMS Executive Secretary, Edsel Peña, which contains a reminder of your member ID and a link to the…
The Wolf Prize for Mathematics is awarded to Gregory Lawler from Chicago University, for his comprehensive and pioneering research on erased loops and random walks and to Jean-François Le Gall from Paris Sud Orsay University, for his profound and elegant works on stochastic processes. The work undertaken by these two…
The UK Royal Statistical Society has announced the recipients of its 2019 honours, who will be presented with their awards at a ceremony during their annual conference in Belfast this September. Notable among these are the Guy Medals in Silver and Bronze, which will be presented to Susan Murphy…
Emery N. Brown, the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, has won Carnegie Mellon University’s 2018…
The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has awarded one of its 2018 Silver Medals to Grégory Miermont, professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. CNRS awards Silver Medals to early-career researchers distinguished by the originality, quality and importance of their work, who are recognized nationally and internationally.…