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The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science, has appointed Professor Sir Adrian Smith FRS as Institute Director. Professor Smith, currently Vice-Chancellor at the University of London, will take up his new role later this year.
Howard Covington, Chair of The Alan Turing Institute, said: “I am…
Bhramar Mukherjee from University of Michigan writes: Congratulations to Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of the Committee of Presidents …
The US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 70 regular members and 10 international members. Among them is Nicholas Patrick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 396 of its members for 2017 in recognition of their contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.
In the AAAS Section on Statistics were five IMS members and Fellows.…
The International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) takes place August 1–9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (see http://www.icm2018.org/). The organizing committee have announced 21 plenary lectures, among which are two by IMS Fellows, Gregory Lawler and Michael I. Jordan (you can read the complete list here). The remaining…