IMS awards
Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy, Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington, USA, has been named the 2016 IMS Carver Medalist. Chris receives the award for leadership in the development and curation of electronic publications for the IMS probability community, especially for co-founding the Electronic Journal …
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The following lectures are available for nomination in 2016.
• 2018 Wald Lecturer
• 2018 Neyman Lecturer
• 2018 Rietz Lecturer
• 2019 Medallion Lecturers
The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2016. To nominate…
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.…