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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Han received his PhD in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
The IMS Travel…
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Peter Bickel received a Doctor honoris causa from ETH Zurich on November 22, 2014. The translation (from German) of the laudatio reads “…for fundamental contributions in semiparametric, robust and high-dimensional statistics, and for seminal influence in mathematical statistics and its applications.” (The full text, in German, is at https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/Dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf)
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We are saddened to bring news that five of our community have passed away recently. We do not yet have full details, but obituaries will appear for these colleagues in due course.
Steven F. Arnold, Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, passed away December 6. He was born in…
Featuring news about Trevor Hastie, David Anderson, Kathryn Chaloner; Raymond J. Carroll, Frank E. Harrell Jr., Arnab Maity, Christopher S. McMahan, Sastry G. Pantula, Madan L. Puri, and Joshua M. Tebbs