News
April 2, 2013
The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect (Erwin Bolthausen) and, this year, 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Sourav Chatterjee, Richard Davis, Holger Dette, Rick Durrett, Steffen Lauritzen, Susan Murphy, Leonid Mytnik, James Norris, Akimichi Takemura, Jonathan…
Jingchen Liu receives 2013 Tweedie Award
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jingchen Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his PhD in 2008 from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia
University. The…
A specialist in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations, Jeremy Quastel has been at the University of Toronto since 1998. He studied at McGill University, then the Courant Institute at New York University where he completed his PhD in 1990 under the direction of S.R.S. Varadhan; he has …
Former IMS Bulletin Editor, and current Co-editor of JASA, Xuming He, writes:
In order to disseminate our research results, we are expected to publish. We also publish to establish a track record as scholars. Publications are needed for annual evaluations as well as tenure and promotion for each individual. Publications…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
“Upstairs on the Square” is reputed in some circles to be the restaurant for dining and wining around Harvard Square. The probability therefore was not surprisingly small to find Ben Affleck and two statisticians there sitting only a few tables apart. It was September 15,…