News
November 15, 2018
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…
There is still time to consider who to nominate for these distinguished IMS awards. Nominations are open for the following IMS Awards for 2019:
• Tweedie New Researcher Award, deadline December 1.
• Carver Medal, deadline February 1.
• IMS Fellowship, deadline January 31.
For more information…
If you’re feeling overwhelmed at the world’s new-found interest in and demand for statistics, IMS President Xiao-Li Meng has a call to arms:
“I teach statistics” used to be an effective response when I was too tired to chat with a stranger, except that once it excited a taxi…