From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
It is with intense sadness that we announce the passing of Harry van Zanten at the age of 52. For the last few years, he coped with a cancer that sadly turned out to be untreatable. He leaves behind his wife Carolien and two sons Hero and Midas, family and…
Call for invited session proposals for the 2026 IMS Annual Meeting
July 6–9, 2026 in Salzburg, Austria
https://imstat.org/2026AnnualMeeting/
The 2026 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026, at Salzburg Congress (https://www.salzburgcongress.at/en). The organizers (Kavita Ramanan, IMS President; Genevera Allen, Program Chair for Statistics;…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University has announced that Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is the 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer.
Tibshirani will present “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression” at 3:30 pm, Friday, October 17, 2025, in the Psychology Department…
We are pleased to announce the following four IMS members have been selected to receive the 2026 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award:
Jin-Hong Du, Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science & Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong; Yu Gui, Department of…
James O’Malley is a joint recipient of the 2025 Research Excellence Award for Senior Faculty in Foundational Science from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. The award celebrates outstanding scientific contributions and advances within the Geisel community exemplified in scientific scholarship through significant author contributions, peer-reviewed awards, or…