IMS awards
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Philip A. Ernst as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Ernst received his PhD in 2014 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is now an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University: http://www.stat.rice.edu/~pe6/. Philip’s…
We introduce another three of this year’s Medallion Lecturers: Jean Bertoin, Davar Khoshnevisan and Ming Yuan. Jean will be giving his Medallion Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018; Davar will be speaking at the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2018) meeting in Gothenburg,…
We are pleased to announce the eight winners of the 2018 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards, who will be using their awards to travel to present a paper or a poster at four different IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meetings.
Abhik Ghosh from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India will be…
Nominate for Carver Award or Fellowship
The Carver Medal was created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. It is open to any IMS member who has not previously been elected President. Deadline February 1, 2018.
IMS Fellows demonstrate distinction in…
As we previously announced, the IMS has created a new category of travel award, aimed at graduate students who wish to attend an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. The IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award was created by a bequest from the estate of Jim Hannan’s widow, Bettie, who passed…