IMS Presidential Address(Es) Each Year, at the End of Their Term, the IMS CONTENTS President Gives an Address at the Annual Meeting
Volume 50 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin September 2021 IMS Presidential Address(es) Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS CONTENTS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. 1 IMS Presidential Addresses: Because of the pandemic, the Annual Meeting, Regina Liu and Susan Murphy which would have been at the World Congress in Seoul, didn’t happen, and Susan Murphy’s 2–3 Members’ news : Bin Yu, Marloes Maathuis, Jeff Wu, Presidential Address was postponed to this year. Ivan Corwin, Regina Liu, Anru The 2020–21 President, Regina Liu, gave her Zhang, Michael I. Jordan Address by video at the virtual JSM, which incorpo- 6 Profile: Michael Klass rated Susan’s video Address. The transcript of the two addresses is below. 8 Recent papers: Annals of 2020–21 IMS President Regina Liu Probability, Annals of Applied Probability, ALEA, Probability Regina Liu: It’s a great honor to be the IMS President, and to present this IMS and Mathematical Statistics Presidential address in the 2021 JSM. Like many other things in this pandemic time, this year’s IMS Presidential Address will be also somewhat different from those in the 10 IMS Awards past. Besides being virtual, it will be also given jointly by the IMS Past President Susan 11 IMS London meeting; Olga Murphy and myself. The pandemic prevented Susan from giving her IMS Presidential Taussky-Todd Lecture; Address last year. In keeping with the IMS tradition, I invited Susan to join me today, Observational Studies and I am very pleased she accepted my invitation. Now, Susan will go first with her 12 Sound the Gong: Going 2020 IMS Presidential Address.
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