The April/May 2019 issue of the IMS Bulletin is available in PDF format at https://imstat.org/latest-issue Contents include: • Po-Ling Loh selected to receive Tweedie New Researcher Award • Members’ news: Yoav Benjamini; Zhen-Qing Chen • Speakers at WC2020 • David Hinkley: 1945–2019 • IMS Lecture previews: Yoav Benjamini (Rietz lecturer),…

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The IMS has selected Po-Ling Loh as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. She…

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Professor Yoav Benjamini, the Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, has been selected to receive the International Statistical Institute’s 2019 Pearson Prize for his 1995 paper, co-authored with his colleague Yosi Hochberg (deceased in 2013). The ISI Pearson Prize celebrates and honors a…

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The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has announced the joint recipients of the 2019 Itô Prize. Congratulations to IMS Fellow Professor Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Professor Masatoshi Fukushima (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), for their 2018 paper, “Stochastic Komatsu-Loewner evolution and BMD domain constant” in…

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SPECIAL NOTE: This conference has been postponed to 2021 please also join us for the Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020, August 24-28, 2020. ———— The named lecturers for the 2020 Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics (August 17–21, 2020, at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea) have been announced. The…

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