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Adrian Smith, Director and Chief Executive of the Turing Institute (the UK’s institute for data science and AI), will take up the post of President of the Royal Society in November. Sir Adrian was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, and of the IMS in 1984. He…
You may have seen our call-out to IMS members, in the e-Bulletin email, or on our Facebook or Twitter, asking if you have been working on COVID-19? Below, in alphabetical order, you can read about the members who wrote to share what their research has focused on. If you’d like…
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Richard Lewis Tweedie New Researcher Award, and of the inaugural Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize.
The Tweedie Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The…
The UK’s Royal Statistical Society has announced its 2020 awards. Among these, the Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to Arnaud Doucet for his numerous ground-breaking contributions to the development of theory and methodology in Bayesian inference and computational statistics. These include two influential papers in JRSSB: “Sequential Monte Carlo…
The Rollo Davidson Trustees have awarded the 2020 Rollo Davidson Prizes to IMS member Ewain Gwynne (and also to Roland Bauerschmidt). Ewain Gwynne is a Clay research fellow in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Roland is a University Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant…