IMS Bulletin
The 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, which included the IMS Annual Meeting, took place from July 29 to August 3. There were over 6,000 participants from 52 countries, and more than 600 sessions. Among the IMS program highlights were the three Wald Lectures given by Emmanuel Candès, and…
The American Statistical Association elected 62 new Fellows this year, among whom are the following IMS members:
Mariza de Andrade, Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic Foundation
William B. Fairley, Senior Statistician, President, Analysis & Inference, Inc.
Byron Jon Gajewski, Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
Tilmann Gneiting, Professor of Computational…
The ICM 2018 (August 1–9, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro) is organized under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union. Plenary speakers include Gregory Lawler and Michael Jordan. Also listed in the Probability and Statistics section are the following invited speakers: Allan Sly, Andrea Montanari, Bálint Tóth, Byeong U. Park,…
IMS Fellow David B. Allison has been appointed dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Allison, former associate dean for research and science in the school of health professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is an elected fellow of the National Academy…
Longtime IMS member Michael P. Cohen has been elected representative-at-large for business, industry and government, to the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Congress with three-year term beginning February 1, 2018. Mike is a Principal Statistician at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). He has over 35 years’ experience in complex…