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The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) conferred their 2015 awards at JSM in Seattle in August. John D. Storey, Princeton University’s William R. Harman ’63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, received the 2015 COPSS Presidents’ Award, which recognizes…
Featuring news about Nell Sedransk, Bradley Efron, David L Banks, Peter Gaenssler, Samantha Tyner
The American Statistical Association (ASA) named 62 of its members as Fellows this year. Among them are 18 IMS members.
The IMS members who are new ASA Fellows are: John Aston, University of Cambridge, UK; Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles; Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado at Boulder;…
Two IMS members have been signed to major ice hockey teams in the US — not as players, but as part of the growing number of statistical analysts in professional sports. Sam Ventura, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has been signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins as…
Featuring news about Aad van der Vaart, Michael Waterman, Steven Fienberg, Jiming Jiang, Judith Goldberg, John Eltinge, Xuming He and Danyu Lin.