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October 1, 2025
James O’Malley is a joint recipient of the 2025 Research Excellence Award for Senior Faculty in Foundational Science from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. The award celebrates outstanding scientific contributions and advances within the Geisel community exemplified in scientific scholarship through significant author contributions, peer-reviewed awards, or…
The UK’s Royal Statistical Society awards Guy Medals, named after William Augustus Guy, the British medical statistician. The Bronze and Silver medals are awarded annually and the Gold medal is awarded every two years. This year’s RSS Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to IMS President-Elect Richard Samworth. Richard…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has announced that the Ethel Newbold Prize for 2025 is awarded to Po‑Ling Loh, University of Cambridge, UK. Po‑Ling Loh, who was elected an IMS Fellow this year, is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory in the Department of…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2026 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.
The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for …
With profound sorrow, we share the passing of Professor Ričardas Zitikis on April 9, 2025. He was 62 years of age.
Ričardas was born on July 13, 1962, in Lithuania, to Edvardas Zitikis and Irena Zitikiene. Ričardas was awarded his PhD degree in 1988 by Vilnius University in Lithuania and…