From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
IMS student member Steven T. Moen, PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, won the ASA John J. Bartko Scholarship Award to attend the Conference on Statistical Practice (which was virtual this year, in February). Steven decided to study economics in college but especially the models and systems used…
James O’Malley was recently appointed to the Peggy Y. Thomson Professorship in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences; he is the first statistician in this role. O’Malley is a professor in The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI) and department of biomedical data science in the Dartmouth Geisel School…
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Are you a PhD student? Apply by May 1, 2022, for the 2023 Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award. This annual travel award will be given to three PhD students, who will present their research at a special invited session during the 2023 IMS Annual Meeting (at…
Nancy Reid: 2022 COPSS Distinguished Lecturer
Rebecca W. Doerge, Carnegie Mellon University, is the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award Committee Chair. Rebecca, together with Christian Genest and Erica E.M. Moodie, McGill University, writes:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has selected Nancy Reid, OC, FRS, FRSC, Professor in…
Hans-Georg Müller is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. While in high school, he received the First Prize in the National Mathematics Competition of Germany (Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik) in 1974 and 1975, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ulm in Germany and a MD…