Member news
Next year there will be an impressive list of invited speakers at a range of IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.
First up in 2024, Sébastien Roch will give a Medallion Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes. SSP2024 takes place in Houston, TX, from March 14–16. See https://ssp2024.rice.edu/home.…
Emily Palmer, Harvard Department of Statistics Administrative Coordinator writes:
On May 5, 2023, Professor Joe Blitzstein from the Harvard University Department of Statistics launched the centennial celebration of emeritus faculty Herman Chernoff, and his research and teaching legacy. The day featured a full program, including a tribute video from former…
We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2024 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University; Chanwoo Lee, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Yuling Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The award will fund their travel to next…
Congratulations to the following IMS members who have been chosen as Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute in the second round elections of 2023. They are Listed with their country, they are: Xueqin Wang (China), Vicky Fasen-Hartmann and Mats Julius Stensrud (Switzerland), Lu Wang and Xiaoke Zhang (USA). Read…
IMS Fellow and former president Alison Etheridge FRS, OBE, has been selected by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and the London Mathematical Society (LMS) to receive the 2023 David Crighton Medal. The announcement on the IMA website says, “Alison is a leading researcher and a world expert…