News
October 2, 2020
As you will have noticed, there was no physical IMS Annual Meeting this year, as it was due to be held at the Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Seoul, which is now postponed to next year. This meant that the IMS meetings that would normally have taken place there were held…
Northeastern University has appointed David Madigan as the next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. A distinguished and innovative leader, Madigan moved to Northeastern after a successful career at Columbia University, where he oversaw an academic and research enterprise across several schools and research centers as executive vice…
Princeton University Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Professor Rene Carmona and University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Michael Ludkovski, along with Professor Ronnie Sircar (ORFE) and Dr. Glen Swindle (Scoville Risk Partner), have been awarded $3.5 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects…
Philip Ernst, Associate Professor of Statistics at Rice University, has been named the inaugural winner of the INFORMS Don Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award for Excellence in Operations Research, the first institute-wide early-career award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Philip Ernst was recognized for…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University (FSU) is pleased to announce Nancy Reid, University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto, as the inaugural speaker for its newly endowed Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is co-sponsored by IMS.
Nancy Reid will…