The COPSS Leadership Academy is a new initiative for emerging leaders in statistics created by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, spearheaded by Bhramar Mukherjee. This new award recognizes the increasingly important role that early-career statistical scientists are playing in shaping the future of the discipline and is designed…

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NOW ONLINE July 19–23, 2021 https://www.wc2020.org/The congress, hosted by Seoul National University, is now in virtual format. This Congress will have 14 (plenary) named lectures, one public lecture, 40 invited sessions featuring 120 speakers, contributed talks, and poster sessions. Prior to the Congress, a two-day Young Researchers Meeting will…

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The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. The 2021 recipient of the Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize is Zheng Tracy Ke of Harvard University. Dr. Ke was chosen by the Committee on the Hall Award “for her…

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A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_49_4/aop_49_4.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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IMS Council has approved the nomination of Tati Howell, IMS Bulletin Editor for the 2021 Carver Medal, as recommended by the Committee to Select the Carver Award. Tati receives the award for her outstanding service, efforts, and dedication as the assistant editor and the editor of the IMS Bulletin during…

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