News
April 5, 2012
Each year IMS holds elections so that its members can choose the next President-Elect of the Institute and people to represent them on IMS Council. The candidate for President-Elect is Bin Yu, who is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,…
The April/May 2012 Bulletin is now online. Contents include:
• IMS Elections• IMS Tweedie Award: Huixia Wang• Members’ News: Ming Yuan, Allan Sly, Sebastien Roch, CR Rao• Author Identity and Open Bibliography• Obituary: Franklin Graybill• Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance• Anirban’s Angle: Learning from a Student• Parzen Prize• Recent…
The Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award has been established in memory of Dr. Stephen Lagakos, a faculty member and former chair of the Department of Biostatistics who passed away in a tragic automobile accident in 2009.
Professor Lagakos was a leader in the Department, the School of Public Health, and more…
April 2, 2012
The PDF version of the April/May 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF from the archives here.…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Huixia Judy Wang as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Huixia received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
The…