US National Medals of Science
Peter Bickel writes: Of the nine National Medals of Science awarded by President Obama this year, three were in what I view, ecumenically, as the mathematical, information and data sciences. [ More.. ]
Read More...Members News: October/November 2014
Featuring news about Mike West, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Terry Speed, Simon Tavaré
Read More...New Editors for IMS Journals
Several IMS core and co-sponsored journals have new editors, whose three-year terms start January 1, 2015. Maria Eulalia Vares will be the new editor of the Annals of Probability, taking [ More.. ]
Read More...COPSS Awards at JSM
Members of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) are pleased to announce the 2014 awards, which were presented to the winners at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, [ More.. ]
Read More...Martin Hairer wins Fields Medal
The Fields Medals are the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union. Among this year’s four recipients is IMS member [ More.. ]
Read More...Members News: September 2014
Featuring news about Michael Jordan, Susie Bayarri, Terry Speed, Karen Kafadar, Alicia Carriquiry, Merlise Clyde, Dipak Dey, David Draper, Stephen E. Fienberg, Edward I. George, Michael Jordan, Joseph B. Kadane, Kerrie Mengersen, Eugenio Regazzini, Sylvia Richardson, Christian Robert, Judith Rousseau, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Marina Vannucci, Robert Wolpert, Brian Scott Caffo, Catherine A. Calder, Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Jie Chen, Jeng-Min Chiou, Bertrand S. Clarke, Holger Dette, Paul Embrechts, Yulia R. Gel, Mark E. Glickman, Scott H. Holan, Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Inoue, Karunarathna Bandara Kulasekera, Nicole A. Lazar, Bin Nan, Philip B. Stark, Joshua M. Tebbs, Hansheng Wang, Tian Zheng, and John Stufken.
Read More...IMS student members win Data Mining Cup
Iowa State student team wins international data mining competition A team of Iowa State University graduate students topped 98 other universities from 28 countries to capture first place in the [ More.. ]
Read More...Members News: August 2014
Featuring news about Rami Atar, F. Jay Breidt, Alexander Goldenshluger, Thomas C.M. Lee, Bin Nan, Richard Samworth, Martin Wainwright, Harrison H. Zhou; Christopher Genovese; H.N. Nagaraja
Read More...US National Academy of Sciences elects new Members
The United States National Academy of Sciences announced on April 29, 2014, the election of 84 new members, and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished [ More.. ]
Read More...Members News: June/July 2014
Featuring news about: Geoffrey Grimmett, Martin Hairer, H. Vincent Poor; Montserrat Fuentes
Read More...Members News: April/May 2014
Featuring news about: Ying Hung; Philip Protter, Raymond J. Carroll, Keith Crank, Bani K. Mallick, Robert T. Smythe and Michael Stein; Stephen Fienberg; Alexandre Tsybakov; Gang Zheng
Read More...Rao Prize Conference: report
Runze Li writes: The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2013 Rao Prize Conference on October 5, 2013 to honor the 2013 Rao Prize winner Herman Chernoff, Professor Emeritus [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: March 2014
Featuring news about Susan Holmes, C.R. Rao, Klaus Krickeberg, Jim Pitman, and Peter Hall
Read More...Members’ News: January/February 2014
Featuring news about Lars Peter Hansen, Jeffrey Steif, Alison Etheridge, Jianqing Fan, Xiao-Li Meng, Bin Yu, David Madigan, Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga and Juan Romo
Read More...Members’ News: December 2013
Featuring news about Terry Speed, Kenneth P. Burnham, Sally Morton
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