IMS Bulletin
Antonio (Tuca) Auffinger and Greg Lawler report:
Northwestern University hosted the 41st Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference July 8 –12, 2019, with 277 registered participants coming from 34 different countries. The most represented were the USA, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the UK. The conference program consisted of 13 plenary…
The IMS funds travel awards for early-career researchers, and some of this year’s recipients have written about their experiences. Read about the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award and IMS New Researcher Travel Award at https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/.
Ting Ye, University of Wisconsin–Madison, attended ENAR 2019 using a Hannan Travel Award. Ting…
In 2015 Paul Shaman wrote about the history of IMS Fellows, and included an extensive list of their other achievements.
A few years have passed, so we now present an update to that list:
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Ragnar A. Frisch
1969
Kenneth J. Arrow
1972
Tjalling C.…
We are delighted to announce the 2019 election results and introduce the newly elected members of IMS Council. The next President-Elect is Regina Liu, and the five new members of Council are: Edwin Perkins, Gesine Reinert, Christian Robert, Qi-Man Shao and Alastair Young. All of them will serve a three-year…
The American Philosophical Society has announced its newest class of members, among whom is David L. Donoho, Professor of Statistics and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
David Donoho has made fundamental contributions to theoretical and computational statistics, as well as…