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May 14, 2021
Professor Kerrie Mengersen is the International Statistical Institute President’s Invited Speaker for the Virtual World Statistics Congress, WSC2021 (July 11–16, 2021: https://www.isi2021.org/). Kerrie Mengersen is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology, and an incoming Vice-President of the ISI. Her work spans Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic…
The International Prize in Statistics is the top award in the field of statistics. As we reported in the last issue, this year it was awarded to Harvard biostatistician Professor Nan Laird. Among other things, Laird helped develop the statistical methods that allow researchers to extract detailed information from…
Daniel Remenik, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Center for Mathematical Modeling, at the Universidad de Chile, has been awarded two prizes recently.
The Rollo Davidson Prize for 2021 was awarded jointly to Ioan Manolescu, Université de Fribourg, in recognition of his outstanding work on critical physical systems…
IMS Fellow Richard Samworth, who holds the Professorship of Statistical Science at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. His project title is “Robust statistical methodology and theory for large-scale data.” ERC Advanced Grants support excellent researchers at the career stage at…
The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science. These include her pioneering and influential work in mathematical statistics, machine learning and optimization; broad and career-long interdisciplinary collaborations that have had a significant impact…