IMS awards
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…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards and the IMS Hannan Travel Awards for 2020.
IMS New Researcher Travel Awards
The 2020 IMS New Researcher Awards fund travel, and possibly other expenses, to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored…
Hans R. Künsch, former chair of the Memorials Committee, writes:
The IMS has a history of over 80 years, and during this time our members have made many contributions to the “development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability.” In order to highlight our rich history…
We are pleased to announce that the IMS Carver Medal Committee has selected Lynne Billard to receive the 2020 Carver Award. Lynne was chosen for her outstanding service to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows; for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987–90), culminating…
We congratulate the 2020 Class of IMS Fellows, elected for their outstanding research record and service to the statistics/probability community. They are:
Louigi Addario-Berry, McGill University: For fundamental contributions to probability, in particular to the topics of branching structures and random graphs, and for his devoted service to the mathematical…