IMS awards
The 2019 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are supporting 11 new researchers to attend the following meetings. If you’re there, please look out for them and say hello! Statistics conference in honour of Aad van der Vaart’s 60th birthday (June 17–21, Leiden, The Netherlands): Bo Ning, Yale. IMS China Meeting

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We are pleased to announce the 25 new IMS Fellows selected in 2019. They will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at JSM, on Monday July 29: do join us!   Edoardo M. Airoldi, Co-Director, Data Science Institute, and Millard E Gladfelter Professor of Statistics &…

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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 these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures in 2019: 2020 & 2021 Wald Lecturers 2020 Le Cam Lecturer 2022 Medallion Lecturers Send your nomination by October 1, 2019. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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The ten winners of this year’s Hannan Travel Awards are: Satwik Acharyya, Texas A&M University; Joshua J. Bon, Queensland University of Technology; Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Harvard University; Hyeyoung Maeng, London School of Economics; Abhijoy Saha, The Ohio State University; Martin Wiegand, University of Manchester;…

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The IMS has selected Po-Ling Loh as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. She…

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