From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
The Department of Statistics at Columbia University mourns the passing of Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo, who passed away on October 25, 2025, at the age of 74. Professor Lo was a distinguished statistician, teacher, and collaborator whose work transformed both theoretical and applied statistics. His research in asymptotic theory, survival analysis,…
Meet the people who are standing in the 2026 IMS Council elections.
Xihong Lin is the candidate for President-Elect, and we have 10 candidates for the five places on IMS Council: Shankar Bhamidi, Jelena Bradic, Susanne Ditlevsen, Pablo Groisman, Jialiang Li, Runze Li, Lester Mackey, Debashis Paul, Nancy Ruonan Zhang…
2026 IMS Annual Meeting: July 6–9, 2026 in Salzburg, Austria
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The 2026 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026. The venue is Salzburg Congress (https://www.salzburgcongress.at/en), located in the heart of the city and close to the river. The meeting organizers (Kavita Ramanan, IMS President;…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences elected 73 academicians and 27 foreign academicians in 2025. IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan, who is Directeur de Recherche at Inria and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was among those elected as a Foreign Member…
The American Public Health Association (APHA) has selected Xihong Lin to receive the Lowell Reed Lecture Award from the APHA Health Statistics Section. The award is presented annually to a statistician who has made significant contributions to public health through research, teaching, and/or service. The lecture honors the legacy of…