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October 17, 2024
As previously announced, the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2025 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Louis V. Cammarata, Harvard University; Ying Jin, Harvard University (previously at Stanford University); and George Stepaniants, California Institute of Technology (previously Massachusetts Institute of Technology)…

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Fellows of the American Statistical Association are ASA members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions to some aspect of statistical work. At the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, 47 ASA Fellows were inducted during the ASA’s President’s Address and Awards. The IMS members among that list…

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The IMS Executive Committee members are pictured below. Inset left, Executive Secretary Peter Hoff; inset middle, Program Secretary Annie Qu; inset right, Treasurer Jiashun Jin. Standing in the main picture (which was taken at the 2024 World Congress), left–right: Past President Michael Kosorok, President Tony Cai

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Dipak Dey writes: The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut hosted the 30th Distinguished Statistician Colloquium, sponsored by ASA, Pfizer and UConn. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012, and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series has featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox,…

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Layla Parast writes: Fall is the time for apples, pumpkin spice, crunching leaves, and—for me—freshmen. Some people strongly dislike teaching freshmen, but I love it. I feel like a summer camp counselor again, except that this time I don’t have to worry about kids being pushed in pools or whacked…

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