News
August 13, 2020
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is currently accepting nominations
for these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures:
the 2022 Neyman Lecturer
the 2022 Rietz Lecturer
eight 2023 Medallion Lecturers
Send your nomination by October 1, 2020. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/…
Daniela Witten, professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington, and Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics, has been selected to receive the ASA’s 2021 Leo Breiman Junior Award. The Breiman Award recognizes Daniela’s outstanding contributions to statistical learning, computational statistics, and their practical applications.
Daniela’s…
Willem Rutger van Zwet, emeritus professor at the Mathematical Institute Leiden, passed away in the morning of July 2, 2020 at the age of 86 years.
Willem (“Bill”) van Zwet was born in 1934 in Leiden, and attended the gymnasium (high school with classics) in The Hague. During his subsequent…
Donald P. Gaver, Jr., was born on February 16, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He spent his childhood in St. Paul with his family including his sister Nancy. He attended the St. Paul Academy where he excelled in science and mathematics. He was encouraged to apply to MIT and was…
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…