Lectures and Addresses
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 …
As you will have noticed, 2020 has been an unusual year for conferences and speakers! Many events that were scheduled for 2020 will now be happening in 2021 (or even 2022), as you can see in the calendar at the back of the Bulletin, or on the IMS website at…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University (FSU) is pleased to announce Nancy Reid, University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto, as the inaugural speaker for its newly endowed Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is co-sponsored by IMS.
Nancy Reid will…
David Donoho, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, was selected by the Statistical Society of Canada to deliver the Presidential Address, given online June 1 2020 as part of the SSC2020 virtual meeting. The lecture was called…
The Schramm Lecture, named in honor of Oded Schramm (1961–2008), is an annual IMS–Bernoulli Society joint lecture. Omer Angel (University of British Columbia) is going to give the Schramm Lecture at the Bernoulli–IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Seoul, July 19–23, 2021. The following year, Louigi Addario-Berry…