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The winners of the Bernoulli Society’s New Researcher Award 2023 in Mathematical Statistics are Edgar Dobriban (University of Pennsylvania), Qiyang Han (Rutgers University), and Lucas Janson (Harvard University). The awardees will deliver a talk at the special invited session during the 64th ISI World Statistics Congress Conference to be held…

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We are pleased to announce the following members have been selected to receive the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Yaqi Duan, Yuetian Luo, and Tudor Manole. The award will fund their travel to next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, which takes place at JSM Toronto (August 5–10, 2023).…

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The University of Waterloo has conferred an honorary doctorate — Doctor of Mathematics, honoris causa — on Dr. Claudia Klüppelberg, professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich. IMS Fellow Claudia Klüppelberg received her doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 1987. She is known for her…

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Next year there will be an impressive list of invited speakers at a range of IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings. Jian Ding will give a Medallion Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes (University of Arizona, March 8–11). Hongyu Zhao’s Medallion Lecture will be at the ENAR/IMS Spring Meeting (Nashville,…

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Trevor Hastie, John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences, professor of statistics, and professor of biomedical data science in the school of humanities and sciences at Stanford University, was recently named the 2022 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. He presented his lecture on “Cross-Validation in Model Selection and Assessment,” on…

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