From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President and five places in the IMS Council. We introduced the candidates in the last issue: Susan Murphy is the candidate for President-Elect, and the ten Council candidates are Vivek S. Borkar, Vanja Dukic, Christina Goldschmidt, Ruth Heller, Susan Holmes,…
The UK Royal Statistical Society has announced its 2018 awards recipients. Among them are three IMS members: Peter Bühlmann (Guy Medal in Silver), Peng Ding (Guy Medal in Bronze), and Peter Diggle (Barnett Award). The other RSS awards went to: Nicky Best (Bradford Hill Medal), Idris Eckley (Greenfield Industrial Medal),…
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences Jerome Sacks Award recognizes sustained, high-quality, cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical and data sciences. Last year’s award recipient, Jun S. Liu, Harvard University, was recognized for his groundbreaking research contributions at the interface of statistics and biology. He will speak at an invited session …
Former IMS President Lawrence D. Brown died peacefully on February 21, 2018, at the age of 77. Larry preserved his unfailing fortitude and good humor to his last day.
Larry was born on Dec. 16, 1940, in Los Angeles, CA. He earned his PhD in mathematics from Cornell in 1964,…
Judea Pearl has been awarded the 2018 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling, for the invention of a model-based approach to probabilistic and causal reasoning, the discovery of innovative tools for inferring these models from observations, and the development of novel computational methods for the practical applications of…