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Our fourth profile of IMS Fellows who were elected in May to the US National Academy of Sciences is devoted to Nancy Reid. Christian Genest from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, writes about her:
Nancy Reid became in May the first Canadian-based statistician to be elected to membership in the US…
As we reported in the previous issue, the 2016 George Box Medal has been awarded to one of our contributing editors, David Hand. This medal is awarded by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics for outstanding contributions to industrial statistics (see http://www.enbis.org/awards/george_box_medal/?_ts=18012)
David Hand is well-known…
In the April/May 2016 issue we reported that the winner of the 2016 Tweedie New Researcher Award was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. Alexandre presented the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from July 28–30, immediately before JSM.
The call for nominations…
Joel B. Greenhouse, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, was invited to present the inaugural Rod Little Distinguished Lecture in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. The award honors the many significant contributions to the statistical sciences of Rod Little, the…
Newly elected IMS Fellow Herold Dehling was unable to be in Toronto for the presentation ceremony, but a few weeks afterwards he and Richard Davis were at the same conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, so they took the opportunity and Richard presented Herold with his plaque.…