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2026 IMS Annual Meeting: July 6–9, 2026 in Salzburg, Austria https://imstat.org/2026AnnualMeeting/ The 2026 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026. The venue is Salzburg Congress (https://www.salzburgcongress.at/en), located in the heart of the city and close to the river. The meeting organizers (Kavita Ramanan, IMS President;…

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences elected 73 academicians and 27 foreign academicians in 2025. IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan, who is Directeur de Recherche at Inria and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was among those elected as a Foreign Member…

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The American Public Health Association (APHA) has selected Xihong Lin to receive the Lowell Reed Lecture Award from the APHA Health Statistics Section. The award is presented annually to a statistician who has made significant contributions to public health through research, teaching, and/or service. The lecture honors the legacy of…

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The Bernoulli Society has announced the recipients of its 2026 New Researchers Award in Probability Theory. The awardees are Morris Ang (UC San Diego), Serte Donderwinkel (University of Groningen), and IMS member Mark Sellke (Harvard University). There were also Honourable Mentions for Ahmed Bou-Rabee (University of Pennsylvania), Sky Cao (MIT),…

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The Department of Statistics at Florida State University welcomed Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, as the 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. Tibshirani presented “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression” on October 17, 2025. The recording is now available at: https://youtu.be/tYGWAJLC-eQ

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