Lectures and Addresses
In the last issue, we briefly announced the winners of this year’s Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) awards. Here’s some more background on them all:
Alicia Carriquiry to deliver the 2021 Florence Nightingale David Award Lecture
Nancy Gordon (Chair of the Award Committee) and Daniel Nettleton (Iowa State…
Axel Munk is the founder and director of the Felix-Bernstein Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Moreover, he is a Max Planck fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry where he is the head of the research group for Statistical Inverse…
Xin Bing is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University, advised jointly by Florentina Bunea and Marten Wegkamp. Before moving to Cornell, he received a BS in Mathematics in 2013 from Shandong University, China, and an MS in Statistics in 2016…
Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, where he directs both statistics and financial econometrics labs. After receiving his PhD from…
Every three years, the IMS chooses a Le Cam Lecturer, one of our most prestigious awards. But who was Le Cam, and why was his work so important? The following is slightly condensed from the obituary written by Rudolf Beran and Grace Yang, which was published in the IMS Bulletin …