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November 16, 2021
A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_49_5/aos_49_5.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/

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2022 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) December 13–16, 2022, Florence, Italy The new IMS Program Secretary Annie Qu is pleased to announce a new IMS-sponsored conference series: In response to the call from the 2021 IMS Survey report to expand membership to include emerging areas of…

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As we announced in the April/May 2021 issue, the 2021 International Prize in Statistics was awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in recognition of her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis…

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Staying with the ISI Virtual World Congress [see International Prize announcement here], you can also view the video of Kerrie Mengersen’s ISI President’s Invited Keynote Lecture, The Origami of Data Science. Kerrie Mengersen is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the ISI…

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The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Savage Award, named in honor of Leonard J. “Jimmie” Savage, is bestowed each year on two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics, one each in Theory & Methods and Applied Methodology. The winner of the Theory & Methods section for 2020…

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