Lectures and Addresses
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…

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Did you know that IMS has a growing collection of plenary speaker videos on our YouTube channel? You can watch them at https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat Four plenary talks from the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science) are the latest to be added. These are “Scaling up Bayesian Modeling and…

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Sylvie Méléard is Professor at Ecole polytechnique, France, and senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a specialist in stochastic processes, measure-valued processes, quasi-stationary distributions and is interested in their applications in biology, particularly in evolutionary ecology, bacterial biology and hematology. She is the head of the…

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Ingrid Van Keilegom received her PhD in Statistics in 1998 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (now called Hasselt University) in Belgium. She is, since 2016, professor of statistics at KU Leuven. Previously she was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), and UCLouvain in Belgium, where she…

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Runze Li received his PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He currently is the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics and Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Runze’s research interests include theory and…

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