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March 31, 2020
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…
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…
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.
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Sharon-Lise Normand (Chair of the 2020 Fisher Lecture Committee) and Joel Greenhouse (Carnegie Mellon University), write:
The Committee of Presidents of…
Amita Manatunga to deliver the 2020 E.L. Scott Lecture
Liza Levina (University of Michigan, Chair of the Award Committee) and Lance Waller (Emory University) write:
The COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award committee has awarded the 2020 award to Professor Amita Manatunga of Emory University. She was selected as this year’s…
Statistical Science has a new editor, Sonia Petrone, from April 1, 2020. Thanks to Cun-Hui Zhang, who served as editor from January 1, 2017.…