Susan Murphy, IMS President, says, “With regret, we announce that our 2020 World Congress in Seoul will be delayed. After extensive discussions with the local organizing committee and program committee, both IMS and the Bernoulli Society leadership have determined that it must be postponed to ensure the safety of…

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Richard Lewis Tweedie New Researcher Award, and of the inaugural Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. The Tweedie Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The…

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The UK’s Royal Statistical Society has announced its 2020 awards. Among these, the Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to Arnaud Doucet for his numerous ground-breaking contributions to the development of theory and methodology in Bayesian inference and computational statistics. These include two influential papers in JRSSB: “Sequential Monte Carlo…

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The Rollo Davidson Trustees have awarded the 2020 Rollo Davidson Prizes to IMS member Ewain Gwynne (and also to Roland Bauerschmidt). Ewain Gwynne is a Clay research fellow in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Roland is a University Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant…

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EDITED JULY 16, 2020: This award has been retired by COPSS, and is now called the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship. See the announcement here.  — Sharon-Lise Normand (Chair of the 2020 Fisher Lecture Committee) and Joel Greenhouse (Carnegie Mellon University), write: The Committee of Presidents of…

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