IMS Bulletin
IMS co-sponsored meeting August 3–5, 2022, in New York, USA https://yangfeng.hosting.nyu.edu/snab2022/ The 2022 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond (SNAB2022) will be held on August 3-5, 2022, and will be hosted by the NYU School of Global Public Health, Department of Biostatistics. We are bringing together researchers on network…

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We are pleased to announce that Anru Zhang has been selected to receive the 2022 Tweedie New Researcher Award, as recommended by the IMS Committee on Travel Awards. Anru Zhang is the tenured Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor at the Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science,…

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We are pleased to announce that Xuming He is the 2022 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Xuming He is the H.C. Carver Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, and President-Elect (2021–2023) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He was selected for the Carver Medal, an award for service…

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The UK Royal Statistical Society has announced its medals and prizes for 2022.  The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to Nancy Reid for her pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of…

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced its Class of 2021 Fellows. Among the 564 AAAS Fellows were eight in the Section on Statistics: Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani, University of Michigan; Valen Earl Johnson, Texas A&M University; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania; Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti,…

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