News
May 18, 2015
We learned just before we went to print with the June/July issue that Bruce Lindsay, 68, passed away May 5 in State College, PA. An obituary was printed in The Dalles Chronicle. Bruce was holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State; he contributed important innovations in…
Among the new Fellows of the American Mathematical Society are five IMS members: Maury Bramson, Paul Dupuis, James Fill, Donald Fraser and Jonathan Mattingly.
Professor of Probability in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Oxford, Alison Etheridge, has been elected one of the 47 new Fellows and 10 new Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
According to the Royal Society’s website, “Alison Etheridge has made significant contributions in the…
IMS Council has approved the nomination of Senior Production Editor Patrick Kelly for the 2015 Carver Medal, as recommended by the Committee to Select the Carver Award. Patrick receives the award for “his unique and exceptional contributions to maintain the high standards of the IMS journals; especially with the increasing,…
During the 152nd annual meeting of the US National Academy of Sciences, several events and sessions were recorded and are now available to watch online. One of the filmed “research briefings” features IMS member Emery N. Brown, who is Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical, Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at…