IMS awards
Roger Koenker was born in 1947 in North Dakota, graduated from Grinnell College in 1969 and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1974. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974. From 1976–83, he was a Member of the Technical Staff…
Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has worked since 1986. Prior to this, he worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Educational Testing Service. He…
Nicolas Curien is Professor, since 2014, in the Mathematics Institute at Université Paris-Saclay, France. He specializes in probability theory and, more precisely, in random two-dimensional geometry. He received his PhD at Orsay (now Paris-Saclay) in 2011 and then spent two years at Sorbonne University as a CNRS researcher. His main…
Each year the IMS selects people to deliver named and Medallion lectures at our meetings.
In 2020, there will be three Medallion lectures at JSM in Philadelphia, USA (August 1–6, 2020), from Susan Holmes, Roger Koenker and Paul Rosenbaum.
Then, a couple of weeks later (August 17–21) and on the…
Preview of a Special IMS Lecture
Ashwin Pananjady is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. His research interests are broadly in statistics, optimization and information theory. Specific topics of …