Lectures and Addresses
The Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bernoulli Society (BS) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), took place virtually at the Seoul National University, Korea from July 13 to 19, 2021. Scientific Program Committee chair Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute) and Local Organizing…

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September 24, 2021 Tallahassee, FL, USA and via Zoom w http://stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard will be joining us on September 24, 2021 for this year’s Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship. The title of her upcoming talk…

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Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/ The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for: the 2023 & 2024 Wald Lectures the 2023 Blackwell Lecture the 2023 Wahba Lecture the 2024 Medallion Lectures (eight awards) Send your nomination by October 1, 2021. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/.…

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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…

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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…

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