From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Early-Career Awards
Peter Hall (1951–2016) played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. With funds donated by his friends and family, the IMS created the Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize: https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/peter-gavin-hall-ims-early-career-prize/. Its purpose is to recognize early-career…
Travel Awards for Grad Students and New Researchers
Applications are open for our two travel awards. The IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award funds travel and registration to attend (and possibly present a paper/poster at) an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. This award is for graduate students (Masters or PhD)…
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We are pleased to announce that Eurostat is organising the European Statistics Awards Programme, with competitions in the fields of nowcasting and web intelligence. By “nowcasting” we mean the forecasting of statistical indicators with extremely tight timeliness – typically before the reference period is over. Nowcasting methods…
Call for Nominations: 2023 Ethel Newbold Prize
The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years. The name of the prize recognizes the historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient.…
In May 2016, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistics Society (JSS) jointly launched the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award program. The purpose of this award is to commemorate the achievements of the late Dr. Hirotugu Akaike, who established a novel paradigm to evaluate the predictive accuracy of…