Meetings
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Philip A. Ernst as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Ernst received his PhD in 2014 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is now an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University: http://www.stat.rice.edu/~pe6/. Philip’s…
We are pleased to announce the eight winners of the 2018 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards, who will be using their awards to travel to present a paper or a poster at four different IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meetings.
Abhik Ghosh from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India will be…
The International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) takes place August 1–9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (see http://www.icm2018.org/). The organizing committee have announced 21 plenary lectures, among which are two by IMS Fellows, Gregory Lawler and Michael I. Jordan (you can read the complete list here). The remaining…
Coming up in 2018, we have a number of special lectures at IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.
Most of these will be delivered at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, held in conjunction with the 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (July 2–6, 2018). The…
Jan Swart is a research fellow at the Institute of Information Theory and Automatization, in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. He writes to share his experiences of co-organizing Learning Sessions, trialling a new format for sharing knowledge:
In four columns published in 2014 and 2015…