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November 16, 2021
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…
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…
During ISBA 2021, the 2021 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, June 28–July 2, the first competition for the Best Student Presentation Award of the Industrial Statistics Section of ISBA took place. The award winner was Anna Yanchenko from Duke University, with the presentation “Hierarchical Dynamic Modeling…
Theophilos (Theo) Cacoullos, who passed away in 2020, was an IMS Fellow and founder of the Greek Statistical Institute. His research work covered topics in multivariate analysis, characterizations of distributions, variance bounds for univariate and multivariate distributions and many others. His obituary is here.
Theo Cacoullos’s family members have…
The three winners of the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awards were previously announced here. Rungang Han, Duke University, Rong Ma, Stanford University, and Chan Park, University of Wisconsin–Madison, will present their papers in a special session at the IMS London meeting (June 27–30, 2022).
Rungang Han…