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New IMS President Susan Murphy was interviewed at the International Statistical Institute’s 62nd World Statistics Congress, which was held in Kuala Lumpur in August. You can watch her talking with Anne Edwards in the WebTV section of the ISI2019 website, at https://www.isi2019.org/isi-wsc-2019-webtv/ Also interviewed were the Presidents — all women…
Award announced at the Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting (see the report here)
The 2019 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Allan Sly of Princeton University. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony at…
The UK Government announced that two IMS Fellows, Peter Donnelly and Sylvia Richardson, have been included in the The Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Peter Donnelly, Chief Executive of Genomics plc, and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, received a knighthood (making him Professor Sir Peter Donnelly FRS),…
The American Public Health Association (APHA) has named Daniela Witten, professor in statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, the winner of the 2019 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. This award honors a statistician who has made outstanding contributions to statistical methodology…
Hadley Wickham wins the prestigious 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, is the recipient of the 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of COPSS in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of…