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For her contributions to the foundations of statistics that significantly advanced the frontiers of statistics, and for insight that transformed understanding of parametric statistical inference, Nancy Reid is the inaugural recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association. Professor Reid will…
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) selected Professor Christian Genest of McGill University to receive the 2023 CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize. Genest delivered the CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize Lecture at the Fields Institute in April.
Genest is one of the leading statisticians…
C.R. Rao, an Indian professor whose work over 75 years ago continues to exert a profound influence on science, has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.
In his remarkable 1945 paper published in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao demonstrated three fundamental results…
IMS Fellow Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich, has been elected to the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. See www.leopoldina.org.
Professor Sznitman has been full Professor at the ETH Zurich, Department of Mathematics, since 1991. Born on December 13, 1955 in Paris, he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in…
Yong Zeng, University of Missouri–Kansas City, has become a permanent program director and Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, became a rotator program director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation Directorate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. They join Yulia Gel of The University of…