Nominations are Open for the 2015 COPSS Awards. The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) invites your nominations for next year’s awards. In 2015 the Fisher Lectureship, Presidents’ Award, F.N. David Award and Snedecor Award will be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, Washington. There are five…

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Tilmann Gneiting’s IMS Medallion Lecture (below) and David DeMets’ plenary address (below that) will be delivered at the ENAR/IMS 2015 Spring Meeting in Miami, FL, from March 15–18, 2015. Tilmann Gneiting is Group Leader at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Professor of Computational Statistics at Karlsruhe Institute of …

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The IMS offers several opportunities for contributions to the society’s programs. Please take a moment to consider making a donation to one or more of these funds. Blackwell Lecture Fund The Blackwell Lecture Fund will be used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose of this…

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Photo from http://www.jagdishrustagi.com/ Jagdish Sharan Rustagi, an eminent statistician and a fellow of IMS, passed away on September 21, 2014, in Sunnyvale, California. He was born on August 13, 1923, in the village of Sikri located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in (then) British India. He obtained his BA…

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Contributing Editor Vlada Limic is warming to her theme from her March 2014 and June/July 2014 columns: a workshop that enables more (actual) work to be done… I am eager to continue with the program set in my previous columns. Before this, let me mention that a statistician colleague…

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