News
November 15, 2018
Check the rates and add discounted joint memberships with other societies—now including the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and the New England Statistical Society, as well as INFORMS/Applied Probability Society, International Chinese Statistical Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and ISI/Bernoulli Society—at:
www.imstat.org/dues-and-journal-subscription-prices-for-members/…
The International Prize in Statistics is awarded to Bradley Efron, Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, in recognition of the “bootstrap,” a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of scientific results that has had extraordinary and enormous impact across many scientific fields.
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Haim Bar & Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut, report:
After a six-year hiatus, this year we renewed the Distinguished Statistician Colloquium Series. With generous funding from Pfizer, the American Statistical Association, and the Department of Statistics at UConn, the 24th colloquium in the series was held on September 26–27,…
IMS Fellows Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley) and Bin Yu (UC Berkeley) are working on two of the six projects that have just received a highly selective Chan–Zuckerberg Intercampus Research Award. Only six awards were made, out of 83 applications; these projects will collectively receive $9.7 million over three years.…
We are deeply saddened to report that Steve Fienberg’s widow, Joyce, was among the 11 people murdered on October 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, USA. She was 75. Former IMS President Steve Fienberg passed away almost two years ago: https://imstat.org/2017/04/obituary-stephen-e-fienberg-1942-2016/.
Our thoughts are with Joyce’s…