Lectures and Addresses
JSM 2015 will take place in Seattle, Washington, from August 8–13, 2015. IMS Invited Program Chairs Igor Pruenster (University of Torino, Italy) and Antonio Lijoi (University of Pavia, Italy) have been hard at work organizing 30 sessions. Here’s an overview.
IMS Special Invited Lectures (9)
The Wald Lectures by Susan…
Each year the outgoing IMS President delivers an address at the IMS Annual Meeting, which, this year, was the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney (July 9-14, 2014), a joint meeting of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI) and IMS. Bin Yu, Chancellor’s Professor of Statistics and EECS, University of …
Members of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) are pleased to announce the 2014 awards, which were presented to the winners at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, by COPSS Chair Jane Pendergast.
The winner of the Presidents’ Award is Martin J. Wainwright of the University of…
The Bernoulli Society recently approved the establishment of the Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics, to be awarded every two years beginning in 2015. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to…
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Irene M. Gamba to deliver the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 7–11, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. Meeting details are at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an14/…