From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Jim Pitman paid tribute to his long-term colleague and distinguished researcher in probability theory Michael J. Klass, UC Berkeley, on Michael’s retirement in July 2020. Michael will continue to be involved in the department as Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School. Below, Jim describes Michael’s career:
Despite having…
Carver Award
Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. Deadline February 1, 2022: https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/.
IMS Fellows
Nominate a member for IMS Fellowship whose research in statistics or probability, or leadership in our…
The 2022 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in London, UK, June 27-30, 2022. We invite proposals for invited sessions in probability and statistics (15 slots in each). Your invited session needs a session title and short description (maximum 300 characters), your details as session organiser, plus details of the…
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation.
The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd,…
Paul Chase, the journals operations manager for Penn Press Journals, writes:
We are excited to announce that Observational Studies has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Press to publish the journal twice per year. We will continue to provide the same level of outstanding scholarship and analysis of the field,…