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The Applied Probability Section of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has announced that the winner of its 2024 PhD prize in Applied Probability is Serte Donderwinkel. Serte’s thesis, “The structure of large random graphs,” concerns universality in large random structures. In her thesis, Serte developed a new proof…
Meet the 2025 IMS special invited lecturers (i.e. those selected to give named and Medallion lectures). These will be delivered at three IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings next year.
The first of these meetings is the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which will take place June 30–July 3, 2025,…
The winners of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Awards in 2024 were announced in the April/May issue. This year, COPSS awarded the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship to Regina Liu, the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship to Robert Tibshirani, and the Presidents’ Award to Veronika …
As previously announced, the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2025 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award:
Louis V. Cammarata, Harvard University;
Ying Jin, Harvard University (previously at Stanford University); and
George Stepaniants, California Institute of Technology (previously Massachusetts Institute of Technology)…
Fellows of the American Statistical Association are ASA members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions to some aspect of statistical work. At the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, 47 ASA Fellows were inducted during the ASA’s President’s Address and Awards.
The IMS members among that list…