News
July 16, 2020
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) is retiring the R.A. Fisher Award and Lecture, effective immediately. Dr. Kathryn Roeder, the announced recipient of this award for 2020, will receive the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, to be presented during the COPSS Awards and Address Session…
Have you been working on COVID-19? Some more IMS members wrote to share what their research has focused on. If you’d like a mention in the next issue, please contact ims@imstat.org (send a paragraph about your work, and a link to the paper, or location where readers can find out…
Over 1,500 participants already registered and more than 600 pre-recorded talks uploaded!
A virtual one-week symposium on probability and mathematical statistics, the Bernoulli–IMS One World Symposium will be held August 24–28, 2020. Most meetings and conferences needed to be postponed this summer; this symposium is meant to bring together…
Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
We live in extraordinary times. Even though there have been several warnings about the dangers of a pandemic, as, for example, Bill Gates’ warning in 2016, many world leaders did not take them into account. Moreover, some countries like the United States reduced their budgets related…
Hans R. Künsch, former chair of the Memorials Committee, writes:
The IMS has a history of over 80 years, and during this time our members have made many contributions to the “development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability.” In order to highlight our rich history…