The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President, and open IMS Council spots. If you are an IMS member, you should have received an email from the IMS Executive Secretary, Edsel Peña, which contains a reminder of your member ID and a link to the voting site.…

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Applications are due by May 1, 2020 for the 2021 Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award. More details, including eligibility and application requirements, can be found at: https://www.imstat.org/…/ims-lawrence-d-brown-ph-d-student…/ This annual travel award will be given to three PhD students, who will present their research at a special invited session during…

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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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