From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
The Carver Medal Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jean Opsomer to receive the 2019 Harry C. Carver Medal. The award is made in recognition of his outstanding contributions to IMS, especially through his steady service and guidance as two-term Treasurer of the IMS that put IMS…
The IMS has selected Po-Ling Loh as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Po-Ling is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. She…
This two-day public event is organized by the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Science Education in collaboration with the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, and will focus on how to best support students in post-secondary mathematics courses, with particular attention to students who are…
We are pleased to announce a joint membership agreement between IMS and ACM, the Association of Computing Machinery. IMS members will receive a 25% discount on ACM membership, and student IMS members will receive free ACM membership. Information about this joint membership is available at https://www.acm.org/membership/joint-member-rates-for-ims.
IMS will be…
The March 2019 issue is online: https://imstat.org/latest-issue
Contents include:
Wolf Prize for Greg Lawler and Jean-François Le GallMembers’ news: RSS Prizes for Susan Murphy, Jonas Peters, Tengyao Wang; Dickson Prize for Emery Brown; CNRS Silver Medal for Grégory MiermontSpecial invited lecturers in 2019Medallion Lecture previews: Krzysztof Burdzy, David DunsonRecent papers:…