Member news
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has selected Ruth Williams and Martin Reiman to jointly receive the 2016 INFORMS Von Neumann Theory Prize.
The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) for fundamental, sustained…
IMS members Nicholas Horton (Amherst College) and Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) have taken on new leadership roles as Chair and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively, of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. COPSS serves to foster connections between statistical societies and to organize a series of awards for outstanding work…
The ASA awarded several prizes at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago this year—and there are lots of IMS members and Fellows among them!
ASA Founders: James L. Rosenberger received an ASA Founders Award, along with John L. Czajka, Rod Little and Maura Stokes.
ASA Fellows: Among the 65 new…
Russell Lyons writes this profile of IMS Fellow Yuval Peres, who was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in May 2016.
Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, was elected as a foreign associate of…
Our fourth profile of IMS Fellows who were elected in May to the US National Academy of Sciences is devoted to Nancy Reid. Christian Genest from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, writes about her:
Nancy Reid became in May the first Canadian-based statistician to be elected to membership in the US…