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August 5, 2012
Dr. Nancy Flournoy, Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the Eleventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. She will accept the award at the University of Alabama…
July 25, 2012
Chair-elect of the IMS China Committee: Shuyuan He
Program Secretary of the IMS China Committee: Zenghu Li
Treasurer of the IMS China Committee: Fuzhou Gong
The IMS China Committee: 16 members1 Mingyao Ai2 Hengjian Cui3 Junyi Guo4 Xianping Guo5 Taizhong Hu6 Liuquan Sun7 Shanjian Tang8 Qihua Wang9 Zhaojun Wang10 Yaohua…
July 18, 2012
The IMS election results are in. The new President-Elect is Bin Yu. Five people are elected to serve on Council for a three-year term, and one for a one-year term. Those serving for three years are Erwin Bolthausen, Alison Etheridge, Xiao-Li Meng, Nancy Reid and Richard Samworth; and Nancy Lopes…
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IMS Fellow Peter Jagers has been chosen as this year’s Harry C. Carver Award winner. Peter is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The citation read, “To Peter Jagers, for heading the organization committees for the first joint Bernoulli Society–IMS …