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David Blackwell Instance for Activities That Could Run Sometime Between Now and the End of June 2012 Volume 39 • Issue 8 IMS1935–2010 Bulletin October 2010 IMS Short Courses Proposal New IMS President Peter Hall outlines a proposed IMS program of short courses and Contents short meetings: 1 IMS Short Courses The IMS is considering developing a program of short courses and short meetings, reflecting all of the research areas encompassed by our journals. The motivation is at 2–3 Members’ News: Marta Sanz- Solé; David Brillinger; PK Sen; Elizaveta least two-fold. Firstly, we are not very widely involved in specialist meetings, and from Levina; Jerry Friedman; Samuel Kou; this point of view our scientific leadership can probably be enhanced. Secondly, in the Emily Berg; Wayne Fuller; Xuming He; area of short courses, there is an opportunity for both the IMS and its members to earn Jun Liu; Yajun Mei, Nicoleta Serban, a little extra income, by sharing the profits earned by delivering those courses. Roshan Joseph Vengazihiyil, Ming Yuan The best way in which to operate our short courses and short meetings will prob- ably be learned over time, but a few principles can be predicted in advance. In particu- 4 IMS 2010 Gothenburg meeting report & photos lar, the short courses and meetings should be held in places not in direct competition with relevant, major existing conferences, for example the Joint Statistical Meetings. Of 6 Peking University’s Center course, there are many opportunities for avoiding clashes such as these. The concept of for Statistical Science “IMS Winter Workshops” in North America, perhaps held in early January in southern 7 Conference in memory of US, is only one suggestion. Proposals for activities outside North America, for instance Kai Lai Chung in Europe or Asia, will also be welcome. More than one meeting could be held at the 8 WNAR/IMS meeting same time, most likely at different locations, provided the topics were sufficiently dif- ferent. 9 Rick’s Ramblings: Renewal at SAMSI One model for these activities is to run a short course on a weekend, followed by a short meeting addressing the same general area and held during the subsequent few 10 Joe Eaton: My first 50 years days. However, proposals that involve only one of these components will be welcome. in the IMS The short meeting should not include any parallel sessions, but might include a poster 12 COPSS Presidents’ Award: session. David Dunson The IMS Executive is still putting together the details we need, but we expect to 13 Obituaries: Lester Dubins; call for proposals in the near future. We’ll probably ask for suggestions in the first David Blackwell instance for activities that could run sometime between now and the end of June 2012. 15 Letters to the Editor As well as the information that you would expect to have to be provided (e.g. a title for the activity, scientific motivation, likely key speakers, projected attendance, and of 16 Terence’s Stuff: Simple course, a budget), we’d want a report on the activity, so that information about it could Linear Regression be broadcast to IMS members. 17 IMS meetings For our part the IMS will advertise the activity through its website and the IMS 20 Other meetings Bulletin, and in its regular emails to members. We’ll offer organisers a loan, to help secure conference facilities and pay other costs incurred before any income is received 23 Employment Opportunities from registration fees. We’ll make our credit card facilities available for payment of 28 International Calendar of those fees. In my experience, the lack of access to a secure means of payment is a major Statistical Events impediment to operating short meetings. 31 Information for Advertisers We’ll set up a committee to assess proposals. We aim to ensure that none of the meetings make a loss, and proposed budgets will be scrutinized with this in mind. Stay tuned for further developments! IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 39 . Issue 8 Volume 39 • Issue 8 October 2010 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 Marta Sanz-Solé elected President of European Mathematical Society Contact information On Saturday, July 10, 2010, the Council of the European IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He Mathematical Society unanimously elected Professor Marta Sanz- Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Solé as new President of the EMS. She will serve her four-year term Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, starting January 1, 2011, succeeding the current president, Prof. Ari Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed Laptev. Marta’s homepage is at http://www.mat.ub.es/~sanz/ Marta Sanz-Solé To contact the IMS Bulletin: IMS Bulletin Statistical Society of Canada SSC Honorary Membership awarded to David Brillinger 2 Lampern View, Uley, Dursley David R. Brillinger GL11 5TD Former IMS President , Professor of Statistics at the University of UK California at Berkeley, is now an Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of Canada e [email protected] (SSC). This award recognizes Professor Brillinger’s outstanding distinction and his contri- butions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada. To contact the IMS regarding your dues, David Ross Brillinger was born in 1937 in Toronto. In 1959 he graduated from the membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: University of Toronto with a BA (Hons) in Pure Mathematics, while also serving as a IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office Lieutenant in the Canadian Naval Reserve. He was one of the five winners of the Putnam 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A mathematical competition in 1958. He then went on to obtain his MA and PhD in Bethesda MD 20814-3998 Mathematics at Princeton University, in 1960 and 1961, the latter under the guidance of USA John W. Tukey. t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] During his career, David has held appointments at Princeton, Bell Laboratories and t +1 216 295 5661[international] London School of Economics, and has been at Berkeley since 1970. He has supervised 40 f +1 301 634 7099 e [email protected] doctoral theses and published over 220 papers in a wide variety of books, scientific journals, and conference proceedings. David has made seminal contributions to the theory of time To contact the IMS regarding any other series and point processes. His outstanding methodological work has always been motivated matter, including advertising, copyright through collaborations with researchers from other fields. His techniques for spike train permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows analysis are widely known in neurophysiology, and his work on modeling earthquake risk nominations and content of publications: is equally well known in seismology. More recently, David has also contributed to the Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson advancement of environmental statistics by developing techniques for animal tracking and IMS Business Office wildfire risk. He has also written papers on sports statistics, particularly hockey and soccer. PO Box 22718, Beachwood David’s record of scholarship and his work with the Canadian statistical and math- OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] ematical communities have been recognized through receipt of the SSC Gold Medal t +1 216 295 5661[international] (1992), fellowships in the Royal Society of Canada (1985) and honourary doctorates at the f +1 216 295 5661 universities of Western Ontario (1999), Waterloo (2003) and McMaster (2008). He was e [email protected] President of the IMS in 1994–5 and of The International Environmetrics Society (2006–8); he has also been a member of numerous international grant and scientific review panels, Executive Committee and has served in editorial or advisory capacities for Springer’s Series in Statistics and Lecture President: Peter Hall Notes in Statistics and for 12 respected journals. Internationally, David’s contributions have [email protected] led to many honours, including Fellow of the IMS, ASA and AAAS, Elected Member of President-Elect: Ruth Williams [email protected] the ISI, Guggenheim Fellow, IMS Wald, Neyman and Medallion Lecturer, and several Past President: J. Michael Steele other awards. A fuller list of David’s many achievements is on the SSC website at http:// [email protected] www.ssc.ca/en/award-winners/award-winners-2010#honorary Treasurer: Jean Opsomer The citation that accompanied David’s award read, “For unwavering support over many [email protected] years of statistical and other sciences in Canada; for fundamental contributions to the theory of Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] time series and point processes and their applications to seismology, geophysics and population Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp biology; for contributions to the Statistical Society of Canada, particularly as President; and for [email protected] numerous editorial contributions.” IMS Editors October . 2010 IMs Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Bühlmann and Tony Cai http://imstat.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Stein, Karen Kafadar & ASA Awards recognize Sen, Levina, Friedman, Kou Samuel Kou http://imstat.org/aoas Among this year’s American Statistical Association annual awards, presented at the ASA Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni President’s Address at JSM in Vancouver, were several IMS members. http://imstat.org/aop samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award: The Wilks Memorial Award recognizes outstanding Annals of Applied Probability: Andrew Barbour contributions to statistics that carry on the spirit of Wilks’ work. The 2010 Wilks Award http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan was presented to Pranab K. Sen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for http://imstat.org/sts outstanding contributions to statistical research, especially in nonparametric statistics and IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series biostatistics, and for exceptional service in mentoring doctoral students. http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections The two Gottfried E.
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