From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
We are pleased to announce the 2020 election results, and introduce the newly elected members of IMS Council. The next President-Elect is Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy, and the five new members of Council are: Tony Cai, Richard Davis, Alice Guionnet, Martin Wainwright and Fang Yao. All of them will serve a…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards and the IMS Hannan Travel Awards for 2020.
IMS New Researcher Travel Awards
The 2020 IMS New Researcher Awards fund travel, and possibly other expenses, to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored…
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) is retiring the R.A. Fisher Award and Lecture, effective immediately. Dr. Kathryn Roeder, the announced recipient of this award for 2020, will receive the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, to be presented during the COPSS Awards and Address Session…
Have you been working on COVID-19? Some more IMS members wrote to share what their research has focused on. If you’d like a mention in the next issue, please contact ims@imstat.org (send a paragraph about your work, and a link to the paper, or location where readers can find out…
Over 1,500 participants already registered and more than 600 pre-recorded talks uploaded!
A virtual one-week symposium on probability and mathematical statistics, the Bernoulli–IMS One World Symposium will be held August 24–28, 2020. Most meetings and conferences needed to be postponed this summer; this symposium is meant to bring together…