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In its 2011 competition for the US and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars, chosen from some 3,000 applicants. Only one fellowship was awarded in statistics, to our editor, Dimitris Politis.…
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are two IMS Fellows, Stuart Geman and H. Vincent Poor.…
Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among them are two IMS Fellows, Michael I. Jordan (Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Professor of…
The 2011 IMS Carver Medal is awarded to Professor Ross Leadbetter, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina.
The citation reads, “For his contributions to the success of the 1994 Third World Congress at North Carolina, for his service on the IMS Council, and for his editorial…
An impressive lineup of plenary speakers has been selected for next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9 to 14, 2012.
Next year’s IMS Special Invited Lectures are the Wald Lectures, the Le Cam…