IMS Bulletin
The Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association honored Nicholas Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College, with the Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award, last October. This award is given to a distinguished statistician who has made exceptional contributions to the…
During 2023, two conferences were arranged in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut [UConn]. The conferences were both arranged by his PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting students from USA, China, Korea, India and Latin American countries for his distinguished research, teaching,…
In addition to the eight Emerging Leader Awards (see below), in 2024 COPSS is awarding the Presidents’ Award, the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship, and the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship. Read more about the winners:
2024 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship: Robert Tibshirani
Robert…
Stephen Stigler awarded Neumann Prize
The British Society for the History of Mathematics announced that Stephen Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics, has won the 2023 Neumann Prize for his book Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance (University of Chicago Press, 2022).…
Peter Bühlmann studied mathematics at ETH Zürich (ETHZ) and received his doctoral degree in 1993 from the same institution. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–95 and a Neyman Assistant Professor from 1995–97 at UC Berkeley, before returning to ETHZ in 1997. From 2013–17, he was Chair of the Department…