News
February 16, 2017
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…
We are pleased to announce the next Executive Secretary will be Edsel Peña. Edsel is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. He will take over from Aurore Delaigle, who will have served two three-year terms, this August. The responsibilities of the…