News
August 30, 2017
The 2017 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Hugo Duminil-Copin of IHES Paris and University of Geneva. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley to be held in November 2017.
Hugo Duminil-Copin received his Ph.D.…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng (who is also the new President-Elect) writes about two of the IMS special invited lectures he was inspired by at the Joint Statistical Meetings:
JSM has been a magnet for me since 1989—only once I had to depart on Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. But…
The September 2017 issue of the IMS Bulletin is now online at http://www.imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/bulletin/Bulletin46_6.pdf
Contents include:
JSM round-up and photos
Members’ News: ASA Fellows; ICM Plenary speakers; David Allison; Mike Cohen; David Cox
COPSS Awards: 2017 winners, 2018 nominations
Anirban’s Angle: The state of the world, in a few lines
Obituary:…
If you’re feeling inspired by what you heard at JSM, you can help to create the 2018 invited program for the meeting in Vancouver (July 28-August 2, 2018). Submit an invited session proposal at http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/submissions.cfm#invited. But hurry: the deadline is September 6, 2017.
Traditionally, IMS has favored invited sessions…
August 24, 2017
A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published. You get a summary in pdf-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_31_3.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/For more information on journals published or…