IMS awards
Armeen Taeb (New Researchers Group [NRG] president), Panpan Zhang, Jinyuan Liu, and Eardi Lila (NRG treasurer) were the organizers of the recent IMS New Researchers Conference in Nashville, which took place immediately before the Joint Statistical Meetings. They report:
The 25th IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and…
There are several IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The lectures that are currently available for nomination are: the 2027 & 2028 Wald Memorial Awards & Lectures; the 2027 IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture; the 2027 Le Cam Award and Lecture; and the eight 2028 Medallion Awards & Lectures. For…
Our collection of IMS lectures on YouTube is growing. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat/videos.
These ones are uploaded already, with more to be added:
Alicia Carriquiry, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Statistics and Its Application in Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice System”
Jing Lei, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Winners with…
Regina Liu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her PhD in statistics from Columbia University. Regina has made seminal contributions to several research areas. For example, she is credited for developing the critical foundation for the now…
As previously announced, Chengchun Shi of the London School of Economics and Political Science has received the 2025 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Shi receives the award “for ground-breaking contributions to the development of a wide range of statistical methods and advanced tools in reinforcement…