IMS awards
As you will have noticed, 2020 has been an unusual year for conferences and speakers! Many events that were scheduled for 2020 will now be happening in 2021 (or even 2022), as you can see in the calendar at the back of the Bulletin, or on the IMS website at…

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Xin Bing, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University; Ilmun Kim, Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (previously a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon); and Yichen Zhang, Krannert School of…

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Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/peter-gavin-hall-ims-early-career-prize/ Peter Hall played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early career (PhD in 2013-2020) research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly…

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is currently accepting nominations for these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures: the 2022 Neyman Lecturer the 2022 Rietz Lecturer eight 2023 Medallion Lecturers Send your nomination by October 1, 2020. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. Nominations must be received by February 1, 2021. Please visit https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/. A candidate for IMS Fellowship shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics…

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