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We are sad to report that David Hinkley, IMS Fellow and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, passed away January 11.
David, who was born in England, received his PhD at Imperial College London in 1969; he was a professor of statistics at the University of Minnesota, the University of…
The Wolf Prize for Mathematics is awarded to Gregory Lawler from Chicago University, for his comprehensive and pioneering research on erased loops and random walks and to Jean-François Le Gall from Paris Sud Orsay University, for his profound and elegant works on stochastic processes. The work undertaken by these two…
The UK Royal Statistical Society has announced the recipients of its 2019 honours, who will be presented with their awards at a ceremony during their annual conference in Belfast this September. Notable among these are the Guy Medals in Silver and Bronze, which will be presented to Susan Murphy…
Emery N. Brown, the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, has won Carnegie Mellon University’s 2018…
The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has awarded one of its 2018 Silver Medals to Grégory Miermont, professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. CNRS awards Silver Medals to early-career researchers distinguished by the originality, quality and importance of their work, who are recognized nationally and internationally.…