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Volume 41 • Issue 2 IMS Bulletin March 2012 World Congress: funding update CONTENts The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which includes 1 World Congress funding the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting, will be held July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey (see www.worldcong2012.org). 2 Members’ News: Peter The Congress organisers are pleased to announce that four new sources Glynn, Michael Waterman, of funding have been confirmed, from: Claudia Neuhauser, George 1. ISI/World Bank: for residents of developing countries Casella, Dipak Dey, Wing 2. NSF: for US-based participants Kam Fung, Sastry Pantula, 3. Elsevier/Stochastic Processes and Their Applications: for young Xiaotong Shen, Sudipto researchers Banerjee, Jiti Gao, Stefano 4. IMU: for residents of developing countries Iacus, Ranjan Maitra, Axel In addition, as previously announced, IMS members who have child- Munk, Haiyan Wang, Judith care responsibilities can apply for funds to cover up to 80% of the costs Rousseau of childcare while they attend the Congress. Details on the Childcare 3 Journal News: AoS, AoAP, Initiative are at http://www.imstat.org/meetings/childcare.htm. The EJP, ECP deadline for the Laha Travel Awards has passed. 4 Brazilian journal special More information on these funding opportunities is posted at http:// issue; Spiegelman Award www.worldcong2012.org/?p=financial_support. The deadline for abstract submission for the Congress is March 16, 5 Rick’s Ramblings: Models. Behaving. Badly. 2012 (with notification of acceptance by April 1, 2012); the early registra- tion deadline is May 21, 2012. 6 Obituary: Johannes Istanbul has a wealth of cultural attractions, including the Kemperman Blue Mosque, pictured below, from Hagia Sofia. 7 SAMSI–Indian partnership Görüşürüz! (See you later!) 8 Recent papers: EJS & Statistics Surveys 10 Letter to the Editor 11 Bangladesh stat dept at 50 12 ISOSS meeting report 14 Indian Statistical Association 15 Terence’s Stuff: Correlation 16 IMS meetings 20 Other meetings 26 Employment Opportunities 28 International Calendar of Statistical Events Blue Mosque, from Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Photo: Damien Roué) IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 41 . Issue 2 Volume 41 • Issue 2 March 2012 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 US National Academy of Engineering AAAS Fellows Contact information The United States National Academy The American Association for the IMS Bulletin Editor: Dimitris Politis of Engineering has Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Assistant Editor: Tati Howell announced its new 539 Fellows for their contributions to Contributing Editors: members for 2012. science and technology. Among them were Peter Bickel, Anirban DasGupta, Nicole Lazar, Rick Durrett, Terry Speed Congratulations to several IMS Fellows and/or members. IMS members Peter In the Section on Mathematics was Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: W. Glynn (Thomas W. Claudia Neuhauser, University of Ford Professor and chair, Minnesota Rochester; in the Section on e [email protected] management science and engineering Statistics were: George Casella, University w http://bulletin.imstat.org department, Stanford University) and of Florida; Dipak K. Dey, University of Contact the IMS regarding your dues, Michael S. Waterman (University Professor, Connecticut; Wing Kam Fung, University membership, subscriptions, orders or USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences, of Hong Kong; Sastry G. Pantula, National change of address: and professor of biological sciences, Science Foundation; and Xiaotong Shen, IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office computer science, and mathematics, University of Minnesota. 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, See http://www.aaas.org/news/ USA University of Southern California, releases/2011/1206fellows.shtml t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Los Angeles). Peter was selected for t +1 216 295 5661[international] “contributions to simulation methodology Spiegelman Award f +1 301 634 7099 and stochastic modeling,” and Michael for The 2011 Mortimer Spiegelman Award e [email protected] “development of computational methods for was presented in November to Sudipto DNA and protein sequence analyses.” Banerjee, University of Minnesota. The Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright The full list of members is at http:// award, given annually since 1970, is permission, offprint orders, copyright www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/ presented to an outstanding public health transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02092012 statistician under the age of 40. Sudipto nominations and content of publications: Banerjee was recognized for contributions Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson Elected members of ISI to spatial and environmental statistics. The IMS Business Office The International Statistical Institute elected committee also acknowledged his leadership PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA 17 new members in the third round of and strong success in external funding, t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] 2011, among whom were five IMS mem- PhD supervision, short course instruction, t +1 216 295 5661[international] bers: Jiti Gao, Stefano Iacus, Ranjan Maitra, software development, and journal editing f +1 216 295 5661 Axel Munk, and Haiyan Wang. The list is at and refereeing. e [email protected] http://isi-web.org/membership/membership- The call for nominations for the 2012 elections-2011-round-3 award is on page 4. Executive Committee President: Ruth Williams Joop Kemperman New IMS Program Secretary [email protected] Johannes B. IMS Council has approved the appoint- President-Elect: Hans R. Künsch [email protected] Kemperman, a ment of Judith Rousseau as IMS Program Past President: Peter Hall long-time member Secretary for a term of July 12, 2012 to [email protected] and Fellow of IMS, August 10, 2015. She will replace Guenther Treasurer: Jean Opsomer passed away last Walther on the Executive Committee, [email protected] June. His obituary, following his four years of service. Judith is Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] by Jack Hall and Joe a professor at Ceremade at the Université Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle Naus, appears on Paris Dauphine: see her webpage at http:// [email protected] page 6. www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~rousseau/ Judith Rousseau = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications March . 2012 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Peter Bühlmann and Tony Cai http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron http://imstat.org/aoas IMS Journal News http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Krzysztof Burdzy http://imstat.org/aop New Editors for Annals of Statistics http://projecteuclid.org/aop Peter Hall and Runze Li will serve as Editors of The Annals of Annals of Applied Probability: Andrew Barbour Statistics for the three-year term January 1, 2013 to December http://imstat.org/aap http://projecteuclid.org/aoap 31, 2015. Peter’s webpage is http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ Statistical Science: Jon Wellner Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=308. Peter, an IMS Fellow, has served http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss IMS in many capacities, including IMS President, Council, and IMS Collections Committees on Fellows, on Nominations and on Special Lectures. Peter Hall http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm Runze’s webpage is http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~rli/. Runze is also http://projecteuclid.org/imsc an IMS Fellow, and received the 2012 United Nations’ World IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox http://imstat.org/cup/ Meteorological Organization Gerbier-Mumm International Award. The current Annals of Statistics Editors (for the period 2010 to IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications 2012) are Peter Bühlmann and T. Tony Cai. The homepage of the Electronic Journal of Statistics: David Ruppert journal is http://www.imstat.org/aos/ and IMS members can read all http://imstat.org/ejs papers, past and present, at http://projecteuclid.org/aos/ http://projecteuclid.org/ejs Runze Li Electronic Journal of Probability: Michel Ledoux http://ejp.ejpecp.org New Editor for Annals of Applied Probability Electronic Communications in Probability: Timo Seppäläinen will be the next Editor of The Annals of Applied Anton Bovier http://ecp.ejpecp.org Probability. Timo is a full professor in the Mathematics Department Current Index to Statistics: George Styan at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is an IMS Fellow, http://www.statindex.org and has served as Associate Editor for the Annals of Probability and log into members' area at imstat.org Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Annals of Applied Probability, and most recently served as the Editor Richard Levine of Electronic Communications in Probability (until December 2011). http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs log into members' area at imstat.org His webpage is at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~seppalai/ Timo Seppäläinen Statistics Surveys: Lutz Dümbgen http://imstat.org/ss New home for Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability http://projecteuclid.org/ssu The Electronic Journal of Probability (EJP) and Electronic Communications in Probability Probability Surveys: Laurent Saloff-Coste http://imstat.org/ps (ECP) are electronic journals, jointly sponsored by the IMS and the Bernoulli Society. http://www.i-journals.org/ps/ These journals have a new online home. IMS-Supported