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March 30, 2024
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funding for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2024 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Chengchun Shi.
Dr. Shi is an Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics at the…
The Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association honored Nicholas Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College, with the Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award, last October. This award is given to a distinguished statistician who has made exceptional contributions to the…
During 2023, two conferences were arranged in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut [UConn]. The conferences were both arranged by his PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting students from USA, China, Korea, India and Latin American countries for his distinguished research, teaching,…
In addition to the eight Emerging Leader Awards (see below), in 2024 COPSS is awarding the Presidents’ Award, the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship, and the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship. Read more about the winners:
2024 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship: Robert Tibshirani
Robert…
Stephen Stigler awarded Neumann Prize
The British Society for the History of Mathematics announced that Stephen Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics, has won the 2023 Neumann Prize for his book Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance (University of Chicago Press, 2022).…