Lectures and Addresses
Xihong Lin is Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program of Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). She received her PhD degree from the University of Washington in 1994 under the direction of Professor Norman Breslow. She was on the faculty of the Department…
Deadline: October 15, 2013
The Association for Women in Mathematics established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. In April 2013 the lecture was renamed AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and starting 2015 will be jointly sponsored by AWM…
COPSS, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (IMS, ASA, SSC and ENAR/WNAR) presented its 2013 awards to four IMS members, three of whom are Fellows, at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal on August 7.
The biannual George W. Snedecor Award honors an individual who was instrumental in the…
Hans R. Künsch, ETH Zurich, completed his term as IMS President at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal. He delivered this Presidential Address:
This year we are celebrating the anniversary of a book published 300 years ago, and on this occasion we have declared 2013 to be the International Year…
Peter Guttorp is Professor of Statistics, Quantitative Ecology & Resource Management, and Urban Design & Planning at the University of Washington, Professor at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. He is an invited member of …