From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the selection committee for the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize, awarded as previously announced to Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller and Daniel Yekutieli (with posthumous acknowledgment to Yosef Hochberg). David gave the following speech at the award presentation.
Introduction
I was honoured to be…
IMS member Peter Diggle has received the UK Royal Statistical Society’s prestigious Guy Medal in Gold for 2024. The Guy Medal in Gold is a lifetime achievement award, given to a fellow of the RSS who is judged to have merited distinction by innovative contributions to the theory or application…
The Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation for 2024 has been awarded to IMS member Christian Genest, Professor of Statistics at McGill University, for his pioneering work in copula modeling, extreme-value theory, group decision-making, and nonparametric statistics. Active in research since the mid 1980s, he has developed…
The 2024 Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Probability has been awarded to “Stein’s method for comparison of univariate distributions,” Probability Surveys, vol. 14, pages 1–52, 2017. The authors are Christophe Ley (University of Luxembourg), IMS member Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford) and Yvik Swan (Free University of…
The Applied Probability Section of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has announced that the winner of its 2024 PhD prize in Applied Probability is Serte Donderwinkel. Serte’s thesis, “The structure of large random graphs,” concerns universality in large random structures. In her thesis, Serte developed a new proof…