IMS awards
The 15 recipients of this year’s IMS Travel Awards
The IMS Travel Awards provide funding for travel to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html
Abhishek Chakrabortty
Shih-Kang Chao
Emilie Devijver…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Alexandre Bouchard-Côté as the winner of the 2016 Tweedie New Researcher Award.
Alexandre received his PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver: see http://www.stat.ubc.ca/~bouchard/. The IMS…
Nominate someone for the IMS Carver Award or Fellowship,
or apply for a Travel Award
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 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics (July 11–15, 2016, hosted by the Fields Institute…
Thilaksha Tharanganie, who is a PhD student in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, Australia, wrote to share her experiences from the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on August 2015 in Seattle, USA.
JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America and this time …
