IMS Bulletin
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members — 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year — and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them is IMS Fellow Kenneth Lange.
Kenneth…
Professor Kerrie Mengersen is the International Statistical Institute President’s Invited Speaker for the Virtual World Statistics Congress, WSC2021 (July 11–16, 2021: https://www.isi2021.org/). Kerrie Mengersen is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology, and an incoming Vice-President of the ISI. Her work spans Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic…
The International Prize in Statistics is the top award in the field of statistics. As we reported in the last issue, this year it was awarded to Harvard biostatistician Professor Nan Laird. Among other things, Laird helped develop the statistical methods that allow researchers to extract detailed information from…
Daniel Remenik, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Center for Mathematical Modeling, at the Universidad de Chile, has been awarded two prizes recently.
The Rollo Davidson Prize for 2021 was awarded jointly to Ioan Manolescu, Université de Fribourg, in recognition of his outstanding work on critical physical systems…
IMS Fellow Richard Samworth, who holds the Professorship of Statistical Science at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. His project title is “Robust statistical methodology and theory for large-scale data.” ERC Advanced Grants support excellent researchers at the career stage at…