IMS awards
The Blackwell Lecture Fund will be used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose of this lecture is to honor Blackwell, to keep his name alive and to inspire young people to emulate his achievements. The first lecture is expected to be presented in 2014.
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Next year’s Special Invited Lectures are three Wald Lectures, a Rietz Lecture, and eight Medallion Lectures.
At the JSM, in Montreal from August 3–8, 2013, the Wald Lectures will be given by Piet Groeneboom (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), and the Rietz Lecture will be delivered by Larry Wasserman…
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 …