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Professor C.R. Rao, Penn State Eberly Professor Emeritus of Statistics and statistics legend, passed away in Buffalo, New York, on August 22, 2023. His family members Teja, Vincent, Vera and Malini were with him. He was 19 days away from his 103rd birthday. Among a very large number of…
IMS members receiving American Statistical Association (ASA) awards at JSM
The ASA announced the following awards to IMS members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto.
David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto.
Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship in Statistics Award, Honorable Mentions:…
Adrian Raftery, the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, is the 2023 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. His talk is on October 25, 2023, at Florida State University and online. See stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture.…
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians
Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…
IMS Fellow Aad van der Vaart has been elected a member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe). Aad van der Vaart is a professor in the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM) at TU Delft in The Netherlands; he previously held positions at Leiden University; the University of California,…