News
February 16, 2017
Sir David Cox and Bradley Efron have been awarded the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category. The €400,000 award is shared for their development of “pioneering and hugely influential” statistical methods that have proved indispensable for obtaining reliable results in a vast spectrum of…
New IMS Bulletin Editor Vlada Limic writes:
We are delighted to welcome to the Bulletin’s team of Contributing Editors the following “new faces”:
Yoram Gat (Google Israel)
Takis Konstantopoulos (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Regina Nuzzo (Gallaudet University, Washington DC, USA)
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University, RI, USA)
They will join the existing…
Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, University of Washington, has been selected to receive a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor bestowed by the US government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.…
The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President and six places in the IMS Council. We introduce the candidates in the March 2017 IMS Bulletin and at this link.
Voting opens soon—look out for the email with your personalized link—and closes June 16.…
Congratulations to IMS Fellow, Professor David Finney, who celebrated his 100th birthday on 16 December 2016. David Finney pioneered the development of systems monitoring drug safety; his work has greatly influenced the monitoring systems now in place. His two best known books are Probit Analysis (1947) and Statistical Method in…