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In its 2020 competition for the US and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded its Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars, chosen from some 3,000 applicants. Only one fellowship was awarded this year in Applied Mathematics (none in Mathematics or Statistics this year): to our contributing editor,…
IMS Council recently approved the appointment of John Aston as statistics editor for the successful IMS–Cambridge University Press book series, IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks (https://imstat.org/journals-and-publications/ims-monographs/) for a three-year term starting January 1, 2021. He takes over from Xuming He, and joins Nancy Reid (coordinating editor, 2018–2021), Ramon…
UC Berkeley statistics Professor Bin Yu describes Data Science as a “field of evidence-seeking that combines data with information from a research domain information to generate new knowledge.” Concerned with making this process more consistent and trustworthy, Bin has laid out her framework for integrating predictability, computability and…
A couple more IMS members wrote to share what they have been working on, around COVID-19. If you’d like a mention in the next issue, please contact ims@imstat.org (send a paragraph about your work, and a link to the paper, or location where interested readers can find out more). Our …
Northeastern University has appointed David Madigan as the next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. A distinguished and innovative leader, Madigan moved to Northeastern after a successful career at Columbia University, where he oversaw an academic and research enterprise across several schools and research centers as executive vice…