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March 31, 2026
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has announced the winners of its Presidents’ Award, Scott Award and Distinguished Achievement Award.
COPSS Presidents’ Award: Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania, “For statistical foundations of generative AI including the watermarking, alignment, and rankings of LLMs; for advances in privacy preserving…
If you are based in the United States, you may already know that 2026 has been designated a year-long celebration of the beauty, relevance, and potential of mathematics.
If you haven’t yet done so, check out the Year of Math website for details of events and programs across the US:…
The IMS Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from 6–9 July, 2026, at Salzburg Congress. The scientific program will feature the 2026 Wald lectures (Tilmann Gneiting; see his preview here), the 2026 Blackwell lecture (Cun-Hui Zhang), three Medallion lectures (Ian McKeague, Bodhisattva Sen, Jelle Goeman), the…
Regina Liu and Annie Qu, co-organizers of the 2025 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science, report:
We are delighted to report that the 2025 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science), held December 15–18 in Seville, Spain, was another huge success. It followed similarly…
Marianne Huebner, Michigan State University, responds to David Hand’s recent “Hand Writing” column about data quality, which appeared in the January/February 2026 issue. She stresses the importance of Initial Data Analysis (IDA):
David Hand makes an excellent case for the crucial role of data quality––an aspect that too often…