IMS awards
Each year the IMS awards funds to young researchers to travel to present a paper or poster at the IMS annual meeting. Following this year’s World Congress in Istanbul, we asked the latest recipients what they thought of the meeting, the location and the IMS.
Karthik Bharath enjoyed the meeting:…
Each year the IMS makes awards in the following categories:
Tweedie New Researcher Award
Richard L. Tweedie played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. With funds donated by his friends and family, the IMS created the “Tweedie New…
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…