News
August 13, 2020
The American Statistical Association has announced its annual awards at the Virtual JSM. Among the winners of the various awards are these IMS members/Fellows:
Deming Lecturer Award: Dennis K. J. Lin, The Pennsylvania State University, for significant contributions to major policy decisions of diverse industries around the globe and contributions…
The Canadian Journal of Statistics
Special issue on “COVID-19: Statisticians in Action” – Call for Submissions
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Canadian Journal of Statistics (CJS) plans to devote a special issue to “COVID-19: Statisticians in Action”. We aim to showcase statistical research on the design and analysis…
David Donoho, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, was selected by the Statistical Society of Canada to deliver the Presidential Address, given online June 1 2020 as part of the SSC2020 virtual meeting. The lecture was called…
The Schramm Lecture, named in honor of Oded Schramm (1961–2008), is an annual IMS–Bernoulli Society joint lecture. Omer Angel (University of British Columbia) is going to give the Schramm Lecture at the Bernoulli–IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Seoul, July 19–23, 2021. The following year, Louigi Addario-Berry…
Among the 57 ASA Fellows elected this year are the following 15 IMS members and/or Fellows:
Edoardo M. Airoldi, Temple University: For contributions to foundations of network data analysis, to causal inference and experimental design in complex settings, and to statistical computing; for promoting statistics and data science across disciplinary…