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IMS Council has approved the appointment of Grace Yi and Gang Li as co-editors of the Electronic Journal of Statistics, as recommended by the joint IMS/Bernoulli Society Committee to Select Editors. Their terms will be January 1, 2022–December 31, 2024. They take over from Domenico Marinucci, who has served as…
As we announced in the April/May 2021 issue, the 2021 International Prize in Statistics was awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in recognition of her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis…
Staying with the ISI Virtual World Congress [see International Prize announcement here], you can also view the video of Kerrie Mengersen’s ISI President’s Invited Keynote Lecture, The Origami of Data Science. Kerrie Mengersen is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the ISI…
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Savage Award, named in honor of Leonard J. “Jimmie” Savage, is bestowed each year on two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics, one each in Theory & Methods and Applied Methodology. The winner of the Theory & Methods section for 2020…
During ISBA 2021, the 2021 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, June 28–July 2, the first competition for the Best Student Presentation Award of the Industrial Statistics Section of ISBA took place. The award winner was Anna Yanchenko from Duke University, with the presentation “Hierarchical Dynamic Modeling…