IMS Bulletin
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…
The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science. These include her pioneering and influential work in mathematical statistics, machine learning and optimization; broad and career-long interdisciplinary collaborations that have had a significant impact…
Tomi Mori is the 2021 President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. She writes:
2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS), an international professional statistical society…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some advice that would have come in handy as a new researcher:
Once upon a time we were young and insolent (some of you still are). It was a time of questioning the authority of the discipline’s stars and the norms they had created, while…