From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
The 2023 Rollo Davidson Prizes are awarded to IMS member Duncan Dauvergne (University of Toronto), for outstanding contributions to the theory of random sorting networks and for the construction and study of the directed landscape; and to Nina Holden (New York University) and Xin Sun (University of Pennsylvania) for leading…
Some of the most promising graduating PhD students in economics and finance in the world are selected each year to present their research on the Review of Economic Studies (REStud) Tour. It was formerly known as the Review of Economic Studies May Meetings. Rahul Singh, Massachusetts Institute of…
The latest issue of the open access journal, Harvard Data Science Review (issue 5.2, Spring 2023) contains a special theme celebrating the life and work of Sir David Cox, “a giant in statistics and in science in general.” Edited by Sylvia Richardson and Nanny Wermuth, the special collection of…
For her contributions to the foundations of statistics that significantly advanced the frontiers of statistics, and for insight that transformed understanding of parametric statistical inference, Nancy Reid is the inaugural recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association. Professor Reid will…
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) selected Professor Christian Genest of McGill University to receive the 2023 CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize. Genest delivered the CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize Lecture at the Fields Institute in April.
Genest is one of the leading statisticians…