From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
IMS member Jemar R. Bather has been awarded the Penn State Alumni Association’s 2024 Alumni Achievement Award. The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments. Jemar Bather graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s degree in statistics in 2014…
ISI elected members
Congratulations to IMS members Adrian Dobra and Tanujit Dey, who were among the 12 ISI Elected Members in the first round of the 2024 International Statistical Institute’s membership elections. See the list at https://isi-web.org/article/first-round-newly-elected-members-2024…
Australian-born Ruth Williams is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her current research involves developing mathematical models of congestion in networks subject to random ‘traffic’ fluctuations, including transport, computing, communications, manufacturing, and biological systems.
Ruth Williams studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, where she…
SSP Moderator Frederi Viens rites:
Some 150 scholars in mathematics, statistics, and related disciplines, in great majority doctoral students and postdocs from across the US, came to Rice University in Houston, Texas, to attend the annual Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP), a conference series sponsored by the Institute of…
The COPSS–NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in Statistics, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The purpose is to promote leadership skills for members of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series…