For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences The Department of Biostatistics and the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is pleased to request nominations for the Sixteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The…

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Royal Statistical Society (RSS) West Medal to Danny Pfeffermann Danny Pfeffermann has had a long career in social statistics, with particular methodological interests in time series, multilevel modelling, survey non-response and small area estimation. He has for many years held down multiple roles; he has been President of the Israeli…

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Ulf Grenander, pictured at home belatedly receiving an award from Comp. Vis. and Pattern Recognition. Photo kindly supplied by David Mumford   Ulf Grenander was born in 1923 in Vastervik, Sweden, a small coastal town on the Baltic Sea. His degrees were from Uppsala University (B.A., 1946; Licentiate of Philosophy,…

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AMaMeF stands for Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance. Under this name a European research network has been funded by the ESF from 2005 to 2010. Under the auspices of AMaMeF numerous conferences are still organized. Plenary lectures during the 8th General Conference will be given by Fred Espen Benth, Carole…

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Russell Lyons writes this profile of IMS Fellow Yuval Peres, who was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in May 2016.   Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, was elected as a foreign associate of…

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