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Krzysztof Burdzy received his PhD in 1984 from the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley, under the supervision of Professor Jim Pitman. He was a postdoc at the University of California at San Diego and held positions at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Purdue University…
David Dunson is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science and Mathematics at Duke University. He is known for his broad spanning contributions to statistical methodology, with a particular focus on novel modeling frameworks and Bayesian approaches that are motivated by complex and high-dimensional data collected in the sciences.…
We introduce the Le Cam lecturer, Ruth Williams, and the Neyman lecturer, Peter Bühlmann, along with the rest of this year’s Medallion Lecturers: Anthony Davison, Anna De Masi, Svante Janson and Sonia Petrone. Anthony’s lecture will be at JSM in Vancouver (July 28–August 2), Anna’s at the Stochastic Processes and…
We introduce another three of this year’s Medallion Lecturers: Jean Bertoin, Davar Khoshnevisan and Ming Yuan. Jean will be giving his Medallion Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018; Davar will be speaking at the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2018) meeting in Gothenburg,…
We introduce the first two in a series of IMS special lecture previews for 2018. Richard Samworth and Thomas Mikosch are two of this year’s Medallion Lecturers. Both of them will be giving their Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018. The program will be…