Member news
Along with Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies and Terence Tao, Emmanuel Candès was selected to receive the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
Read more about the Laureates and their work: https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html?texto=trayectoria&especifica=0…
This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia (UBC). The SSC’s prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics or probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended…
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the COPSS Presidents’ Award annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The 2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award was announced at the Virtual JSM to Rina Foygel Barber, University…
Have you been working on COVID-19? Some more IMS members wrote to share what their research has focused on. 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 readers can find out…
We are pleased to announce that the IMS Carver Medal Committee has selected Lynne Billard to receive the 2020 Carver Award. Lynne was chosen for her outstanding service to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows; for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987–90), culminating…