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The Bernoulli Society’s New Researcher Awards recognize the work of outstanding young researchers who are members of the BS. This year the award was for innovative contributions in the field of Mathematical Statistics. Out of 22 applicants, the award committee chose for the award Fang Han (University of Washington), Aaditya…
September 24, 2021
Tallahassee, FL, USA and via Zoom
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The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard will be joining us on September 24, 2021 for this year’s Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship. The title of her upcoming talk…
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members — 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year — and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them is IMS Fellow Kenneth Lange.
Kenneth…
Professor Kerrie Mengersen is the International Statistical Institute President’s Invited Speaker for the Virtual World Statistics Congress, WSC2021 (July 11–16, 2021: https://www.isi2021.org/). Kerrie Mengersen is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology, and an incoming Vice-President of the ISI. Her work spans Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic…
The International Prize in Statistics is the top award in the field of statistics. As we reported in the last issue, this year it was awarded to Harvard biostatistician Professor Nan Laird. Among other things, Laird helped develop the statistical methods that allow researchers to extract detailed information from…