IMS Bulletin
Alison Etheridge gave this Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting in Vilnius in July 2018.
So, how was I going to write a Presidential address? The best way to start seemed to be to see what my predecessors had said, and so I took to the internet. There…
We are delighted to announce the 2018 election results, and introduce the newest members of IMS Council.
The next President-Elect is Susan Murphy, and the five new members of Council are: Christina Goldschmidt, Susan Holmes, Xihong Lin, Richard Lockhart and Kerrie Mengersen. All of these will serve a three-year term…
The Australian Academy of Science (AAS) announced the election of 21 distinguished Australian scientists as New Fellows, among whom are Noel Cressie (University of Wollongong) and Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology). Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego) was also admitted as a Corresponding Member.
Left-right: Noel Cressie, Kerrie …
Professor Emmanuel Candès, the Barnum–Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics and chair of the statistics department at Stanford University, was recognized last year as one of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2017 Fellows. The “Genius Grant” fellowship acknowledges individuals who show “exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits.” Emmanuel Candès…
The Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award recognizes innovative research by new researchers. Among the 34 applications for the award, many of which were very strong, three IMS members have been chosen. Congratulations to Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan, and Lingzhou Xue, Pennsylvania State University.
Each…