Lectures and Addresses
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/.…
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 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…
Nancy Ruonan Zhang is a Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor of Statistics in The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on the development of statistical and computational approaches for the analysis of genetic, genomic, and transcriptomic data. In the field of Genomics, she has developed…
Ilmun Kim is a research associate at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, mentored by Richard Samworth and Rajen Shah. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 under the joint supervision of Larry Wasserman and Sivaraman Balakrishnan. His research interests are broadly in the areas…