News
August 31, 2021
We previously announced that Kavita Ramanan was selected for the 2021 class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, the US Department of Defense’s flagship single investigator award. In addition, Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) was selected in the same class of eight Fellows. His research topic is, “On Intelligence…
Jim Pitman paid tribute to his long-term colleague and distinguished researcher in probability theory Michael J. Klass, UC Berkeley, on Michael’s retirement in July 2020. Michael will continue to be involved in the department as Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School. Below, Jim describes Michael’s career:
Despite having…
Carver Award
Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. Deadline February 1, 2022: https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/.
IMS Fellows
Nominate a member for IMS Fellowship whose research in statistics or probability, or leadership in our…
The 2022 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in London, UK, June 27-30, 2022. We invite proposals for invited sessions in probability and statistics (15 slots in each). Your invited session needs a session title and short description (maximum 300 characters), your details as session organiser, plus details of the…
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation.
The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd,…