Along with Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies and Terence Tao, Emmanuel Candès was selected to receive the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Read more about the Laureates and their work: https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html?texto=trayectoria&especifica=0…

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This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia (UBC). The SSC’s prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics or probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended…

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Joseph A. (Yossi) Yahav, Vigevani Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Agricultural Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died in Jerusalem on August 6, 2016, at the age of 81. In addition to his highly original research contributions, Yossi was one of the founders of modern statistics in Israel. He…

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IMS Calls for Invited Session Proposals The 2020 Virtual JSM may have just finished, but thoughts are turning to next year’s meeting. Starting from the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings, which will take place in Seattle from August 7–12, 2021, the IMS now requires half of our invited session allocation to …

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The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the COPSS Presidents’ Award annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The 2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award was announced at the Virtual JSM to Rina Foygel Barber, University…

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