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October 2, 2020
Professor Sir Martin Hairer has won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Professor Hairer, Imperial College London, is recognised “for transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.”
He receives US$3 million and a trophy, to be presented at…
New award created for “Emerging Leaders in Statistics”
The COPSS Leadership Academy Award was established in 2020 to recognize early career statistical scientists who show evidence of and potential for leadership and who will help shape and strengthen the field.
The award is designed both to call attention to the…
https://worldstatisticsday.org
The third World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe on 20 October 2020 with the theme “Connecting the world with data we can trust”. This theme reflects on the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and the public good in national statistical systems. The website above provides…
Saul Blumenthal, Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, passed away on Saturday, March 10, 2018, aged 82. Born in Philadelphia, Saul received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. After serving on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Rutgers, New York University, the University of Kentucky, and…
We publish obituaries in the IMS Bulletin of any IMS member or IMS Fellow — and, on occasion, of other prominent members of our communities. Sometimes, the news of someone’s passing may take some time to reach us, so please, if you hear that a colleague or collaborator has died,…