IMS Bulletin
The latest issue of the open access journal, Harvard Data Science Review (issue 5.2, Spring 2023) contains a special theme celebrating the life and work of Sir David Cox, “a giant in statistics and in science in general.” Edited by Sylvia Richardson and Nanny Wermuth, the special collection of…
For her contributions to the foundations of statistics that significantly advanced the frontiers of statistics, and for insight that transformed understanding of parametric statistical inference, Nancy Reid is the inaugural recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association. Professor Reid will…
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) selected Professor Christian Genest of McGill University to receive the 2023 CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize. Genest delivered the CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize Lecture at the Fields Institute in April.
Genest is one of the leading statisticians…
IMS President Peter Bühlmann comments on the IMS Fellowship elections, and our new class of Fellows, announced here:
I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the newly appointed IMS Fellows for their outstanding achievements. I am truly delighted to see that IMS has 27 new and stellar…
Krishna B. Athreya, who was an IMS Fellow, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at Iowa State University, died at his home in Ames, Iowa, on March 24, 2023. Rick Durrett reflects on Professor Athreya’s mathematical legacy.
As I write…