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May 15, 2019
On the 16th of July 2018 the President of Vietnam awarded IMS Fellow Klaus Krickeberg the Friend of Vietnam Medal for “positive essential contributions to the development of the Vietnamese health sector.”
Klaus has worked in Vietnam since the 1980s in the research, teaching and practice of Public Health. He…
Among the highlights in the IMS program at the Joint Statistical Meetings:
IMS Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony (Monday, July 29, 8:00 pm): Xiao-Li Meng: 011, 010111, and 011111100100
Wald Lectures (Mon, July 29, 10:30 am; Tues, July 30, 2:00 pm; Weds, July 31, 10:30 am): Trevor J. Hastie: Statistical…
COPSS Snedecor, Fisher and David Awards announced
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the following awards at JSM Denver this year. The 2019 George W. Snedecor Award will be given to Sudipto Banerjee, University of California, Los Angeles, for groundbreaking and fundamental work on Bayesian…
Étienne Pardoux received his PhD in 1975 from the Université Paris-Sud Orsay, under the joint supervision of Alain Bensoussan and Roger Temam. He held a position at CNRS, before joining the Université de Provence at Marseille (now Aix Marseille Université) in 1979, where he has worked ever since and, since…
The 2019 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are supporting 11 new researchers to attend the following meetings. If you’re there, please look out for them and say hello!
Statistics conference in honour of Aad van der Vaart’s 60th birthday (June 17–21, Leiden, The Netherlands): Bo Ning, Yale.
IMS China Meeting…