From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Royal Society’s Faraday Prize and Lecture
The UK’s Royal Society has selected Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS as their Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture winner 2020, “for bringing key insights from the disciplines of statistics and probability vividly home to the public at large, and to key decision-makers, in entertaining…
The 2019 Treasurer’s Report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2019. The 2019 fiscal year-end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2020, after the auditors have completed the annual process.
In 2019, the total number of IMS members increased. Subscriptions by institutions…
The American Statistical Association has announced its annual awards at the Virtual JSM. Among the winners of the various awards are these IMS members/Fellows:
Deming Lecturer Award: Dennis K. J. Lin, The Pennsylvania State University, for significant contributions to major policy decisions of diverse industries around the globe and contributions…
The Canadian Journal of Statistics
Special issue on “COVID-19: Statisticians in Action” – Call for Submissions
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Canadian Journal of Statistics (CJS) plans to devote a special issue to “COVID-19: Statisticians in Action”. We aim to showcase statistical research on the design and analysis…
David Donoho, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, was selected by the Statistical Society of Canada to deliver the Presidential Address, given online June 1 2020 as part of the SSC2020 virtual meeting. The lecture was called…