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The UK’s Royal Statistical Society awards Guy Medals, named after William Augustus Guy, the British medical statistician. The Bronze and Silver medals are awarded annually and the Gold medal is awarded every two years. This year’s RSS Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to IMS President-Elect Richard Samworth. Richard…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has announced that the Ethel Newbold Prize for 2025 is awarded to Po‑Ling Loh, University of Cambridge, UK. Po‑Ling Loh, who was elected an IMS Fellow this year, is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory in the Department of…
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
The Presidents’ Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the statistics profession, and granted (with some exceptions) to an individual who…
Among the plenary lectures at next year’s International Congress of Mathematicians (July 23–30, 2026, in Philadelphia, USA) is IMS Fellow Peter Bartlett, who is a Professor of the Graduate School in Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. He is President of the…
The Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace was awarded to Sara van de Geer on June 2, 2025, at the 56th Journées de Statistique, the annual conference of the Société Française de Statistique (SFdS), in Marseille. Christophe Biernaki, president of the SFdS, presented her with the medal of Honorary Member of the…