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Emily Palmer, Harvard Department of Statistics Administrative Coordinator writes:
On May 5, 2023, Professor Joe Blitzstein from the Harvard University Department of Statistics launched the centennial celebration of emeritus faculty Herman Chernoff, and his research and teaching legacy. The day featured a full program, including a tribute video from former…
We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2024 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University; Chanwoo Lee, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Yuling Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The award will fund their travel to next…
Congratulations to the following IMS members who have been chosen as Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute in the second round elections of 2023. They are Listed with their country, they are: Xueqin Wang (China), Vicky Fasen-Hartmann and Mats Julius Stensrud (Switzerland), Lu Wang and Xiaoke Zhang (USA). Read…
IMS Fellow and former president Alison Etheridge FRS, OBE, has been selected by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and the London Mathematical Society (LMS) to receive the 2023 David Crighton Medal. The announcement on the IMA website says, “Alison is a leading researcher and a world expert…
Arup Bose, Professor of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata as been selected to receive the 2023 International Statistical Institute Mahalanobis International Award. The Government of India sponsors the award, which, managed by the International Statistical Institute, is presented every other year at the International…