The September 2019 issue of the IMS Bulletin is online: download your PDF copy from https://imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/Bulletin48_6.pdf. Contents include: Allan Sly awarded Loève Prize Knighthood for Peter Donnelly, CBE for Sylvia Richardson Daniela Witten receives 2019 Mortimer Spiegelman Award Watch JSM plenary speakers; read slides from presentations Photos from IMS…

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  Award announced at the Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting (see the report here) The 2019 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Allan Sly of Princeton University. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony at…

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The UK Government announced that two IMS Fellows, Peter Donnelly and Sylvia Richardson, have been included in the The Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Peter Donnelly, Chief Executive of Genomics plc, and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, received a knighthood (making him Professor Sir Peter Donnelly FRS),…

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The American Public Health Association (APHA) has named Daniela Witten, professor in statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, the winner of the 2019 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. This award honors a statistician who has made outstanding contributions to statistical methodology…

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If you weren’t at the Joint Statistical Meetings this year, you can still watch four of the plenary sessions. These videos are at https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2019/webcasts/ • ASA President’s Address: Reinforcing the Impact of Statistics on Society, Karen Kafadar, University of Virginia • ASA President’s Invited Address: Coming to Our Census: How…

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