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Call for Contributed Talks and Sessions for the 2022 IMS Annual Meeting: closes 15 February, 2022 The 2022 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in London, UK, June 27-30. We plan to hold a normal in-person conference, but with an online format as a fall-back option. Following requests from members…

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Carver Award Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. Deadline February 1, 2022: https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/. IMS Fellows Nominate a member for IMS Fellowship whose research in statistics or probability, or leadership in our…

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Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/  The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for: the 2023 & 2024 Wald Lectures the 2023 Blackwell Lecture the 2023 Wahba Lecture the 2024 Medallion Lectures (eight awards) Send your nomination by October 1, 2021. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science. These include her pioneering and influential work in mathematical statistics, machine learning and optimization; broad and career-long interdisciplinary collaborations that have had a significant impact…

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Axel Munk is the founder and director of the Felix-Bernstein Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Moreover, he is a Max Planck fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry where he is the head of the research group for Statistical Inverse…

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