IMS awards
The IMS provides funds for new researchers to travel to attend IMS meetings. This year four Laha Travel Awards were made, and 12 IMS Travel Awards, helping 16 new researchers to travel to the JSM. If you see them there, say congratulations to them! The recipients are:
IMS Laha Awards:…
Ya’acov Ritov is professor in the Department of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 1983, and is a fellow of the IMS. Ya’acov’s (statistical) research interests include complex and large dimensional model, empirical Bayes procedures, semi- and non-parametric models. His…
Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA. He is a graduate of the Technion, Israel, and joined the faculty of UCLA in 1970, where he currently directs the Cognitive Systems Laboratory and conducts research in artificial intelligence, causal inference and philosophy of science. Pearl has…
Jingchen Liu receives 2013 Tweedie Award
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jingchen Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his PhD in 2008 from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia
University. The…
The IMS Child Care Initiative is designed to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s IMS Annual Meeting takes place at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada, from August 3–8, 2013. The IMS will reimburse members 80%…