IMS awards
IMS Fellow Peter Jagers has been chosen as this year’s Harry C. Carver Award winner. Peter is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The citation read, “To Peter Jagers, for heading the organization committees for the first joint Bernoulli Society–IMS …
The IMS Committee on Fellows is pleased to announce that they have selected 17 new IMS Fellows for 2012. Congratulations to all!
David B. Allison of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, for outstanding leadership in the application of statistics to the study of obesity and genetics and for mentoring…
Thanks to a generous bequest from the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (this year, at the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9–14). This…
The PDF version of the April/May 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF from the archives here.…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Huixia Judy Wang as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Huixia received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
The…