Lectures and Addresses
2013 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences
Call for Nominations
The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to request nominations for the Twelfth Annual Janet…
Contributing Editor Peter Bickel writes:
David Blackwell died on July 8, 2010. Since that time there have been a number of celebrations of his life and accomplishments: memorial sessions in Berkeley in October 2010, at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop in San Diego in March 2011, at a conference…
Nominations are invited for the 2013 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health.
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture was initiated in 1993 in memory of Myrto Lefkopoulou, a former beloved faculty member and student in the Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died of cancer in…
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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One of the final acts of the outgoing IMS President is to deliver the Address at the IMS annual meeting. Ruth Williams, who is now Past-President, delivered this at the World Congress in July.
The IMS mission is “to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of…