News
August 31, 2022
It is more than four years since two of Anirban DasGupta’s close colleagues, Jayanta Ghosh and Herman Rubin, passed away. He knew both well, beyond the level of being “just” colleagues, and he shares a few cherished personal memories that we hope will be of interest to readers:
Jayanta Ghosh…
Daniela Witten wins the prestigious 2022 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data. Much of her work is motivated by applications in genomics…
We introduce a new section in which IMS members are invited to propose new research ideas or directions. These do not need to be formally/provably absolutely new, but it’s an opportunity to emphasize the benefit of an idea for the research community. The purpose is twofold: to gauge the research …
December 13–16, 2022 in Florence, Italy
https://sites.google.com/view/icsds2022
The first IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) is to be held in Florence, Italy, from December 13–16, 2022. The conference will provide 10 travel awards, $800 USD each, to PhD students who participate in invited or contributed program.…
43rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
July 24–28, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal
https://www.spa2023.org/
Featuring talks by Louigi Addario-Berry (Schramm lecture), Riddhipratim Basu, René Carmona (Doob lecture), Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Massimiliano Gubinelli (Medallion lecture), Martina Hofmanova, Richard Kenyon (Medallion lecture), Gesine Reinert, Makiko Sasada, Sylvia Serfaty (Medallion lecture), and Horng-Tzer…