Lectures and Addresses
Planning is well underway for the 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, organized by the Bernoulli Society (BS) and IMS, August 12–16, 2024, on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Germany. The scientific program will have 16 plenary talks, more than 40 invited paper sessions, and a…
Adrian Raftery, the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, is the 2023 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. His talk is on October 25, 2023, at Florida State University and online. See stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture.…
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians
Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…
Did you know that IMS has a growing collection of plenary speaker videos on our YouTube channel? You can watch them at
https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat
Four plenary talks from the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science) are the latest to be added.
These are “Scaling up Bayesian Modeling and…
Sylvie Méléard is Professor at Ecole polytechnique, France, and senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a specialist in stochastic processes, measure-valued processes, quasi-stationary distributions and is interested in their applications in biology, particularly in evolutionary ecology, bacterial biology and hematology. She is the head of the…