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The winners of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Awards in 2024 were announced in the April/May issue. This year, COPSS awarded the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship to Regina Liu, the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship to Robert Tibshirani, and the Presidents’ Award to Veronika …
As previously announced, the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2025 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award:
Louis V. Cammarata, Harvard University;
Ying Jin, Harvard University (previously at Stanford University); and
George Stepaniants, California Institute of Technology (previously Massachusetts Institute of Technology)…
Fellows of the American Statistical Association are ASA members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions to some aspect of statistical work. At the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, 47 ASA Fellows were inducted during the ASA’s President’s Address and Awards.
The IMS members among that list…
Dipak Dey writes:
The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut hosted the 30th Distinguished Statistician Colloquium, sponsored by ASA, Pfizer and UConn. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012, and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series has featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox,…
Million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awarded to Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli and Ruth Heller
An international and independent jury, appointed by the King Baudouin Foundation, has selected the pioneering work on the False Discovery Rate (FDR) as the recipient of the prestigious biennial Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics 2024. This million-dollar…