The IMS is pleased to announce the following IMS Travel Award recipients. Jinyuan Chang, University of Melbourne Haeran Cho, University of Bristol Alexander Drewitz, Columbia University Lilun Du, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bin Guo, Peking University, China Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao, Arizona State University Cheng Li, Northwestern University Gen Li, University of…

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The LARC-SLAPEM organizes, every two/three years, a prize to honor the memory of Francisco Aranda­Ordaz, a distinguished young Mexican statistician who died tragically in 1991.  Sponsored by the Bernoulli Society, the  Francisco Aranda­Ordaz Award is bestowed  for one thesis in Probability and one thesis in Statistics written by students from …

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Edward Waymire, Professor of Mathematics, Oregon State University has received the 2014 Carver Medal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor Waymire receives the award for manifold contributions to the IMS in many capacities and in particular for exceptional service to the Annals of Applied Probability far beyond his…

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The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect—Richard Davis—and 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Marek Biskup, Peter Bühlmann, Florentina Bunea, Sourav Chatterjee, Frank Den Hollander, Holger Dette, Geoffrey Grimmett, Davy Paindaveine, Kavita Ramanan, Jonathan Taylor, Aad van…

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Featuring news about: Ying Hung; Philip Protter, Raymond J. Carroll, Keith Crank, Bani K. Mallick, Robert T. Smythe and Michael Stein; Stephen Fienberg; Alexandre Tsybakov; Gang Zheng

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