IMS awards
Beginning this year, the IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. Available for nomination this year are the 2016 Wald and Rietz Lecturers, and the 2017 Medallion Lecturers. See https://imstat.org/ims-awards/
Deadline for nominations is October 1.
The submission process is simple: send the…
We announce the class of new IMS Fellows for 2014, who will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at the IMS-ASC meeting in Sydney. Congratulations, Fellows!
The Fellows, and their citations, are:
Rami Atar:
for his fundamental contributions in applied and theoretical probability theory, specifically the…
IMS Council has approved the nomination of Edward Waymire for the 2014 Carver Medal as recommended by the Committee to Select the Carver Award. The citation will read: “To Ed Waymire, for manifold contributions to the IMS in many capacities and in particular for exceptional service to the Annals of…
Meet this year’s 18 winners of the IMS Travel Awards. The awards fund travel to present a paper/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
Jinyuan Chang, University of Melbourne
Haeran Cho, University of Bristol
Alexander Drewitz,…
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