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August 31, 2022
Daniela Witten wins the prestigious 2022 COPSS Presidents’ Award Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data. Much of her work is motivated by applications in genomics…

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We introduce a new section in which IMS members are invited to propose new research ideas or directions. These do not need to be formally/provably absolutely new, but it’s an opportunity to emphasize the benefit of an idea for the research community. The purpose is twofold: to gauge the research

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December 13–16, 2022 in Florence, Italy https://sites.google.com/view/icsds2022  The first IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) is to be held in Florence, Italy, from December 13–16, 2022. The conference will provide 10 travel awards, $800 USD each, to PhD students who participate in invited or contributed program.…

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43rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications July 24–28, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal https://www.spa2023.org/ Featuring talks by Louigi Addario-Berry (Schramm lecture), Riddhipratim Basu, René Carmona (Doob lecture), Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Massimiliano Gubinelli (Medallion lecture), Martina Hofmanova, Richard Kenyon (Medallion lecture), Gesine Reinert, Makiko Sasada, Sylvia Serfaty (Medallion lecture), and Horng-Tzer…

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Seminar on Stochastic Processes March 8–11, 2023 at University of Arizona, Tucson https://ssp2023.math.arizona.edu/home  Seminar on Stochastic Processes is a series of annual conferences devoted to stochastic analysis, Markov processes, and other topics of current interest in probability theory. Tutorial lectures by Gérard Ben Arous on March 8. Invited speakers: Patricia…

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