IMS news
We are delighted to announce the 2018 election results, and introduce the newest members of IMS Council.
The next President-Elect is Susan Murphy, and the five new members of Council are: Christina Goldschmidt, Susan Holmes, Xihong Lin, Richard Lockhart and Kerrie Mengersen. All of these will serve a three-year term…
IMS Council recently adopted these guidelines for awards committee members.
Ensuring fairness and diversity: Guidelines for IMS Awards Committees
The term ‘award’ is taken to include all IMS Awards and Honors (including but not limited to: IMS Fellowship, invitations to deliver Special Lectures, and IMS Travel Awards).
Significance …
As previously announced, IMS is seeking contributions to the IMS Peter Hall Early Career Prize fund. If you would like to donate in memory of Peter, there are three ways:
1. By credit card via the IMS website: https://secure.imstat.org/secure/orders/donations.asp
2. By US dollar check, made payable to “IMS –…
The IMS has 10 funds that are open to contributions, detailed below. We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for contributing to the IMS. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit http://www.imstat.org/contribute-to-the-ims/.
Blackwell Lecture Fund
The Blackwell Lecture Fund is used to support…
The Organizing Committee Co-chairs, Erwin Bolthausen and Remigijus Leipus, for the 2018 IMS Annual Meeting on Probability and Statistics and 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, write:
We are pleased to announce that 2018 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 12th Vilnius…