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October 2, 2020
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…

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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…

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Rina Foygel Barber is Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Before starting at University of Chicago, she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow during 2012–13 in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, supervised by Emmanuel Candès. She received her PhD in Statistics at the University…

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Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send your nomination, preferably by email in PDF format, to the committee chair for each award. The deadline for all these nominations is December 15, 2020. COPSS Presidents’ Award The Presidents’ Award is presented annually…

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Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/peter-gavin-hall-ims-early-career-prize/ Peter Hall played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early career (PhD in 2013-2020) research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly…

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