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May 16, 2023
For her contributions to the foundations of statistics that significantly advanced the frontiers of statistics, and for insight that transformed understanding of parametric statistical inference, Nancy Reid is the inaugural recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association. Professor Reid will…
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) selected Professor Christian Genest of McGill University to receive the 2023 CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize. Genest delivered the CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize Lecture at the Fields Institute in April.
Genest is one of the leading statisticians…
IMS President Peter Bühlmann comments on the IMS Fellowship elections, and our new class of Fellows, announced here:
I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the newly appointed IMS Fellows for their outstanding achievements. I am truly delighted to see that IMS has 27 new and stellar…
Krishna B. Athreya, who was an IMS Fellow, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at Iowa State University, died at his home in Ames, Iowa, on March 24, 2023. Rick Durrett reflects on Professor Athreya’s mathematical legacy.
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Damodar Nagesh Shanbhag passed away at his residence in Sheffield, UK, on December 13, 2022. He was 85 years old.
Dr. Shanbhag was born in 1937, in the state of Karnataka, India to Nagesh G. and Rama Shanbhag. He earned his Master’s degree in Statistics from Karnataka University securing a…