Member news
The annual IMS Council election results are in! We are pleased to announce that the next IMS President-Elect is Erwin Bolthausen.
This year 12 candidates stood for six places on Council (including one two-year term to fill the place vacated by Erwin Bolthausen). The new IMS Council members are: Richard…
Featuring news about David Donoho; Kathryn Roeder; Maurice Priestley; C R Rao; Donald Richards; Wenbo Li
Featuring news about Peter Hall, Gregory Lawler; Larry Shepp; Gareth Roberts, Terry Speed; Larry Brown, Bin Yu; Eyal Lubetsky; T.N. Sriram; Vincenzo Capasso; Peter Bickel.
US National Academy of Sciences elects Peter Hall and Greg Lawler
The US National Academy of Sciences has elected 84 new members and 21…
Jingchen Liu receives 2013 Tweedie Award
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jingchen Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his PhD in 2008 from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia
University. The…
Featuring news about: Peter Hall; J K Ghosh; Jean Opsomer; JP Morgan; NISS news; AMS Fellows; Shahjahan Khan
Peter Hall honored in Australia
On 26 January, former IMS President Peter Hall was named an Officer (AO) in the General Division of Order of Australia. His citation reads, “For distinguished service…