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July 16, 2025
The American Statistical Association’s annual awards for 2025 are announced, with the following IMS members and/or Fellows among the recipients.
ASA Founders Award
The ASA Founders Award honors five individuals for demonstrating exceptional dedication to advancing the mission of the association. They include Kate Calder, Professor and Chair…
There are several IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The lectures that are currently available for nomination are: the 2027 & 2028 Wald Memorial Awards & Lectures; the 2027 IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture; the 2027 Le Cam Award and Lecture; and the eight 2028 Medallion Awards & Lectures. For…
International Conference on Statistics and Data Science 2025
December 15–18, 2025, in Seville, Spain
The 2025 IMS–ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science) will be held December 15–18, 2025, in Seville, Spain: see https://sites.google.com/view/ims-icsds2025/
Its program is shaping up to be rich and exciting, with four plenary speakers…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten shares her thoughts on the editorial process, and some advice for associate editors and reviewers, written from the perspective of an editor and a human:
I submitted my first paper to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (JRSSB) as a grad student.…
Our collection of IMS lectures on YouTube is growing. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat/videos.
These ones are uploaded already, with more to be added:
Alicia Carriquiry, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Statistics and Its Application in Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice System”
Jing Lei, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Winners with…