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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…
EDITED JULY 16, 2020: This award has been retired by COPSS, and is now called the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship. See the announcement here.
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Sharon-Lise Normand (Chair of the 2020 Fisher Lecture Committee) and Joel Greenhouse (Carnegie Mellon University), write:
The Committee of Presidents of…
Professor Alan Welsh, Australian National University, has been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for his highly original and insightful contributions to the advancement of statistics. Professor Welsh was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy (FAA) in 2007 (and an IMS Fellow in 1990).
Alan Welsh has developed…
Members Jay Bartroff, Larry Goldstein and Gary Lorden were chosen by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) to be the statisticians on a committee with physicists, engineers, and baseball experts studying MLB’s recent surge in home runs. The committee studied vast amounts of game data, performed laboratory tests on…
The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing that brings together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presents them openly.
In a recent post, Roger C. Schonfeld reported: “At ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference, leaders from academic societies, libraries, publishers, and other organizations…