From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
In the April/May 2016 issue we reported that the winner of the 2016 Tweedie New Researcher Award was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. Alexandre presented the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from July 28–30, immediately before JSM.
The call for nominations…
Joel B. Greenhouse, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, was invited to present the inaugural Rod Little Distinguished Lecture in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. The award honors the many significant contributions to the statistical sciences of Rod Little, the…
Newly elected IMS Fellow Herold Dehling was unable to be in Toronto for the presentation ceremony, but a few weeks afterwards he and Richard Davis were at the same conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, so they took the opportunity and Richard presented Herold with his plaque.…
ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, established three awards to honour individuals who have helped to broaden the use of statistics in business and industry. Among these is the Box Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to business and industrial statistics. It is named after George Box,…
Our columnist Terry Speed is interviewed in the September 2016 issue of Amstat News, in the section on influential mentors. He talks with Jean Yang about interdisciplinary research, his career and the role of mentors. You can read the full interview at http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/09/01/terryspeedinterview/…