News
December 16, 2014
We are saddened to bring news that five of our community have passed away recently. We do not yet have full details, but obituaries will appear for these colleagues in due course.
Steven F. Arnold, Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, passed away December 6. He was born in…
There is still time to nominate someone for IMS Fellowship or to receive the Harry C. Carver Award, or to apply for an IMS Travel Award.
IMS Fellowship:
IMS Fellows have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability by publication of independent work of merit (this may be waived…
The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
The…
We printed Bin Yu’s IMS Presidential Address in the October/November issue (in PDF format here). Bin reprised her talk at the New Researchers’ Conference, where it was filmed: you can watch the video here. The accompanying slides are at Bin’s website.…
Professor Shahjahan Khan is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of IMS. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society. He served as the President of ISOSS from 2005–2011. He reports on a statistics seminar at which he contributed:
The Bangladesh Academy of…