From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) was among the 287 organizations that signed this letter.
Learn more at https://www.aaas.org/news/letter-congress-act-current-spending-reject-proposed-rd-cuts…
The April/May 2017 issue of the IMS Bulletin is available in PDF format at http://www.imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/bulletin/Bulletin46_3.pdf
Contents include: Tweedie Award winner Rina Foygel BarberMembers’ News: Danny Pfeffermann, Peter Guttorp, Rajen Shah, Anton Wakolbinger, ISI Elected membersIMS elections: reminder to voteXiao-Li Meng’s photo quizObituaries: Stephen E. Fienberg, Ulf GrenanderPro Bono Statistics: Yoram…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Rina Foygel Barber as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award.
Rina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, since January 2014. In 2012–2013 she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of…
Royal Statistical Society (RSS) West Medal to Danny Pfeffermann
Danny Pfeffermann has had a long career in social statistics, with particular methodological interests in time series, multilevel modelling, survey non-response and small area estimation. He has for many years held down multiple roles; he has been President of the Israeli…
The 2017 Itô Prize is won by Adrián González Casanova, Noemi Kurt, Anton Wakolbinger and Linglong Yuan, for their paper entitled “An individual-based model for the Lenski experiment, and the deceleration of the relative fitness” published in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. The Itô Prize honors the memory and celebrates…