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Among the highlights in the IMS program at the Joint Statistical Meetings:
IMS Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony (Monday, July 29, 8:00 pm): Xiao-Li Meng: 011, 010111, and 011111100100
Wald Lectures (Mon, July 29, 10:30 am; Tues, July 30, 2:00 pm; Weds, July 31, 10:30 am): Trevor J. Hastie: Statistical…
COPSS Snedecor, Fisher and David Awards announced
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the following awards at JSM Denver this year. The 2019 George W. Snedecor Award will be given to Sudipto Banerjee, University of California, Los Angeles, for groundbreaking and fundamental work on Bayesian…
The IMS has selected Po-Ling Loh as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. She…
Professor Yoav Benjamini, the Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, has been selected to receive the International Statistical Institute’s 2019 Pearson Prize for his 1995 paper, co-authored with his colleague Yosi Hochberg (deceased in 2013).
The ISI Pearson Prize celebrates and honors a…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has announced the joint recipients of the 2019 Itô Prize. Congratulations to IMS Fellow Professor Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Professor Masatoshi Fukushima (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), for their 2018 paper, “Stochastic Komatsu-Loewner evolution and BMD domain constant” in…