From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Mark Girolami is an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow (2012–2018) and was previously an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007–2012). He is the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation Turing Programme on Data Centric Engineering, and previously led the EPSRC-funded Research Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning which is now …
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is now accepting nominations for the following IMS Named and Medallion Lectures.
2019 Wald Lecturer: The Wald Memorial Lectures honor Professor Abraham Wald. The Wald Lecturer gives two, three or four one-hour talks on one subject. This gives sufficient time to develop material in…
Statistics Surveys (http://imstat.org/ss/) is an online journal for expository papers about specific statistical methodology. It is an outlet for papers that are deep and magisterial reviews of subfields within statistics, such as bootstrap methodology for finite populations, spatial prediction with Big Data, or causal inference. The journal is…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
I always enjoy making new friends, but I didn’t know the acronym “BFF” until June 17, 2014, when I attended ICSA-KISS Applied Statistical Symposium (acronym wisely avoided) in Portland, OR. A group of us got together after presenting and attending talks on distributional inferences because of our…
This year’s six recipients of the IMS Travel Awards
The IMS Travel Awards provide funding for travel to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html. We present the six recipients…