From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
It’s time to think about nominating your outstanding colleagues and collaborators for these IMS awards: Hall and Tweedie awards (see separate posts), Carver Medal and IMS Fellowship.
Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to…
Canadian statistician Marc Moore passed away on July 26, 2019, following a long illness. He was 77. A graduate of Université de Montréal, Canada, he was a professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal from 1971 to his retirement at the end of 2002. He was Chair of the Applied Mathematics…
Joseph F. Heyse, a respected and influential leader in biopharmaceutical statistics, passed away May 31, 2019. He was 67.
Joe Heyse joined Merck & Co., Inc., in 1976 as a statistician supporting preclinical research and immediately began to develop statistical methods that subsequently became industry standards. In 1987, Joe began…
Megan Othus reports:
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS was hosted by Oregon Health Science University from June 23–26, with over 280 participants. In addition to WNAR’s yearly partnership with IMS, this year we also partnered with the Japanese Region (JR) of IBS to promote international collaborations. There were…
Antonio (Tuca) Auffinger and Greg Lawler report:
Northwestern University hosted the 41st Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference July 8 –12, 2019, with 277 registered participants coming from 34 different countries. The most represented were the USA, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the UK. The conference program consisted of 13 plenary…