From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
IMS President introduces Membership Survey
Regina Liu, the current IMS President, wanted to find out more about who IMS members are, what you want, and how the IMS can better serve you. She writes a preamble to the IMS 2021 Membership Survey Report below:
The IMS recently conducted a survey…
Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for:
the 2023 & 2024 Wald Lectures
the 2023 Blackwell Lecture
the 2023 Wahba Lecture
the 2024 Medallion Lectures (eight awards)
Send your nomination by October 1, 2021. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/.…
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members — 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year — and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them is IMS Fellow Kenneth Lange.
Kenneth…
Professor Kerrie Mengersen is the International Statistical Institute President’s Invited Speaker for the Virtual World Statistics Congress, WSC2021 (July 11–16, 2021: https://www.isi2021.org/). Kerrie Mengersen is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology, and an incoming Vice-President of the ISI. Her work spans Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic…
The International Prize in Statistics is the top award in the field of statistics. As we reported in the last issue, this year it was awarded to Harvard biostatistician Professor Nan Laird. Among other things, Laird helped develop the statistical methods that allow researchers to extract detailed information from…