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March 31, 2020
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.…
Xiao-Li Meng writes: The arrival of COVID-19 has ignited global anxiety about how we deal with uncertainty and risk. Uncertainty blurs our collective vision, and risk takes our breath away—alas, sometimes literally. Since we statisticians and probabilists have always been proud of being at the forefront of studying uncertainty and…
Martin Barlow is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He received his BA from Cambridge in 1975, and his PhD from the University of Wales in 1979. Prior to his move to UBC in 1992, he held postdoctoral and faculty positions at Liverpool University, Trinity College …
Adel Javanmard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations, at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining USC in 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Science of Information, working at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. …