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May 19, 2020
Congratulations to the 2020 Class of IMS Fellows! You can read their citations in the June/July IMS Bulletin. They are:
Louigi Addario-Berry
Aguêmon Yves Atchadé
Shankar Bhamidi
Guang Cheng
Nicolas Chopin
Merlise Clyde
Peter F. Craigmile
Radu V. Craiu
Charmaine Dean
Francesca Dominici
Yingying Fan
Alice Guionnet
Jianhua Guo…
May 17, 2020
We are pleased to announce that the IMS Carver Medal Committee has selected Lynne Billard to receive the 2020 Carver Award. Lynne was chosen for her outstanding service to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows; for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987–90), culminating…
New Members elected to National Academy of Sciences
The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of 120 members and 26 international members, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are three IMS Fellows: Gérard Ben Arous, professor of mathematics at…
Purdue University’s College of Science has named Dennis K.J. Lin to lead its department of statistics. Lin, who is currently a University Distinguished Professor of supply chain and statistics at Penn State University, will begin his new role at Purdue University in July.
Lin received his Bachelor of Science degree…
Tom Liggett passed away May 12, 2020 in Los Angeles. Tom was the editor of the Annals of Probability from 1985–87, gave the Wald Lectures in 1996, and was elected to the National Academy in 2008. He is best known for his two books on interacting particle systems.
Rick Durrett…