News
March 31, 2020
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.…
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…