IMS awards
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Rina Foygel Barber as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award.
Rina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, since January 2014. In 2012–2013 she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of…
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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.…
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. The next IMS Annual Meeting is at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, July 29–August 3, 2017: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2017/.
The IMS will reimburse…
In the April/May 2016 issue we reported that the winner of the 2016 Tweedie New Researcher Award was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. Alexandre presented the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from July 28–30, immediately before JSM.
The call for nominations…
Newly elected IMS Fellow Herold Dehling was unable to be in Toronto for the presentation ceremony, but a few weeks afterwards he and Richard Davis were at the same conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, so they took the opportunity and Richard presented Herold with his plaque.…