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IMSI, the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, located in Chicago, is currently seeking proposals for long programs, workshops, interdisciplinary research clusters, and other scientific activity, with a deadline of September 15, 2024.
Information about how to submit proposals can be found at https://www.imsi.institute/proposals/ and the resources linked therein.…
News on the New Department of Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)
Less than a year after its inception, WashU’s Department of Statistics and Data Science (https://sds.wustl.edu/) is already assembling the talent and expertise needed to make it a national leader in statistical…
The COPSS–NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in Statistics, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The purpose is to promote leadership skills for members of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series…
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians
Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…
Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…