IMS Bulletin
Call for Nominations: 2023 Ethel Newbold Prize
The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years. The name of the prize recognizes the historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient.…
In May 2016, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistics Society (JSS) jointly launched the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award program. The purpose of this award is to commemorate the achievements of the late Dr. Hirotugu Akaike, who established a novel paradigm to evaluate the predictive accuracy of…
IMS 2022 Annual Meeting organizers Qiwei Yao and Thomas Mikosch were delighted to welcome more than 520 participants—including over 100 students—to the IMS Annual Meeting in London at the end of June (https://www.imsannualmeeting-london2022.com). For many attendees it was their first in-person conference in three years, and there was a lively…
The Chernoff Excellence in Statistics Award from the New England Statistical Society has been presented to Nitis Mukhopadhyay, “who, in the tradition of Herman Chernoff’s work, has made exceptional contributions to the theory, methodology, and novel applications of statistics and data science.”
The award was presented at the 35th…
Among the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 260 newly elected members, selected to recognize their accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research, is Alice Guionnet, who is made an International Honorary Member. See https://www.amacad.org/news/2022-member-announcement…