From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
The three winners of the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awards were previously announced here. Rungang Han, Duke University, Rong Ma, Stanford University, and Chan Park, University of Wisconsin–Madison, will present their papers in a special session at the IMS London meeting (June 27–30, 2022). Rungang Han…

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Nicole Lazar introduces the IMS Committee on Equality and Diversity, which she chairs: Around a year and a half ago, in summer 2020, then-IMS President Regina Liu convened a new Committee on Equality and Diversity. The charge of the Committee, broadly speaking, was to serve as a sounding-board and focal…

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These videos are freely available at https://www.youtube.com/c/instituteofmathematicalstatistics/videos. Here’s the list so far. [IMS ML = IMS Medallion Lecture]   BS/IMS Schramm Lecture Balloons in Space(s) – Omer Angel IMS Wald Lectures I: Random Walks and Fractal Graphs; II: Low Dimensional Random Fractals; and III: Higher Dimensional Spaces – Martin…

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The IMS would like to thank all those who have contributed to the IMS. Further contributions are welcome! Please see https://www.imstat.org/contribute-to-the-ims/ Current opportunities to donate are listed below. The IMS Blackwell Lecture Fund is an endowment fund used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose…

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Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send nominations (preferably by e-mail in PDF format) to the committee chairs by December 15, 2021. Presidents’ Award The Presidents’ Award is presented annually to a young* member of one of the participating societies of…

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