We introduce another three of this year’s Medallion Lecturers: Jean Bertoin, Davar Khoshnevisan and Ming Yuan. Jean will be giving his Medallion Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018; Davar will be speaking at the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2018) meeting in Gothenburg,…

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Former IMS President, Annals of Statistics and IMS Bulletin editor Bernard Silverman was knighted in the UK’s 2018 New Year Honours List for public service and services to Science. Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb and Beatles drummer Ringo Starr (among others) also received the same honour. Sir Bernard Silverman’s research…

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We introduce the first two in a series of IMS special lecture previews for 2018. Richard Samworth and Thomas Mikosch are two of this year’s Medallion Lecturers. Both of them will be giving their Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018. The program will be…

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Bhramar Mukherjee from University of Michigan writes: Congratulations to Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of the Committee of Presidents …

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Special Lectures at IMS Sponsored/Co-sponsored Meetings See the section on Committee on Special Lectures for details on IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. In addition to those lectures, the following lectures will take place at meetings as indicated. Doob and Schramm Lectures The Schramm Lecture is an annual, joint IMS-Bernoulli Society…

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