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Peter Hall Memorial Conference September 30–October 1, 2016 Conference Center, University of California, Davis http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/hallmemorialconference/ Please join the UC Davis Department of Statistics for the Peter Hall Memorial Conference in honor of Distinguished Professor Peter Hall who sadly passed away in January 2016. The confirmed speakers so far for the…

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The UK’s Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has announced the recipients of its honours for 2016. Three IMS Fellows were selected to receive the Guy Medals in Gold and Silver, and the Barnett Award. The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to Sir Adrian Smith for sustained excellence in the development…

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Peter Whittle elected foreign member of National Academy of Engineering Among the 80 new members and 22 foreign members elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is Peter Whittle, Emeritus Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge, UK. Peter was elected for “contributions…

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Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is the first female Director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where she is a professor in the Machine Intelligence Unit, specializing in computational biology. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, machine learning and bioinformatics. As ISI Director she oversees the functioning…

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Professor Geetha Ramachandran, Professor of Statistics at the California State University at Sacramento passed away on February 18; she was 67. Professor Ramachandran worked in the areas of sampling and complex surveys and obtained her PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute, where she was a close academic associate of Debabrata…

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