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IMS Bulletin 45(5) 7PMVNFt*TTVF IMS Bulletin August 2016 Your new Council members CONTENTS We are pleased to con!rm the results of the "#$% IMS Council elections. &e President- 1 Election results Elect is Alison Etheridge. &e !ve new Council members are Jean Bertoin, Songxi Chen, Elizaveta Levina, Simon Tavaré and Cun-Hui Zhang. 2–3 Members’ News: Jogesh Babu, Joseph Hilbe, David &e new Council members and President-Elect will serve IMS for three years, starting van Dyk, Clifford Spiegelman, o'cially at the IMS Business Meeting, held this year at the World Congress in Toronto. Rebecca Doerge, Dipak Dey, &ey will join the following Council members: Peter Bühlmann, Florentina Bunea, Alyson Wilson, Bin Yu Geo(rey Grimmett, Aad van der Vaart and Naisyin Wang (who are on Council for a 4 IMS Fellows further year), and Andreas Buja, Gerda Claeskens, Nancy Heckman, Kavita Ramanan and Ming Yuan (whose terms last until August "#$)). &e new Council members will replace 5 Call for Nominations; New Rick Durrett, Ste(en Lauritzen, Susan Murphy, Jonathan Taylor and Jane-Ling Wang. Researchers Group Mixer IMS Council also recently appointed a new Treasurer, Zhengjun Zhang. Zhengjun 6 Student Puzzle 15 is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 7 Profile: Larry Wasserman &erefore, starting at the Business Meeting, the new IMS Executive Committee will be Jon Wellner (President), Richard Davis (Past President), Alison Etheridge (President- 8 Special Lectures: Sara van de Geer, Bin Yu, Nanny Elect), Zhengjun Zhang (Treasurer), Judith Rousseau (Program Secretary), and Aurore Wermuth, Vanessa Didelez, Delaigle (Executive Secretary). Former President Erwin Bolthausen and Treasurer Jean Peter Diggle Opsomer will leave the Executive Committee this year. We express our gratitude to all those who give their time and energy to assist the IMS. 12 New IMS Monograph &anks too, to those who also stood for election this year. And !nally, thanks to all the 13 Project Euclid news IMS members who took the time to vote! 14 Recent papers: Bayesian Analysis; Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 15 Vlada’s Point 16 Treasurer’s Report 2015 18 Meetings 23 Employment Opportunities Alison Etheridge Jean Bertoin Songxi Chen 24 International Calendar President-Elect Council 2016–19 Council 2016–19 27 Information for Advertisers Read it online at bulletin.imstat.org Elizaveta Levina Simon Tavaré Cun-Hui Zhang Council 2016–19 Council 2016–19 Council 2016–19 IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 45 . Issue 5 Volume 45 r Issue 5 August 2016 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 International Astrostatistics Association Spiegelman receives Don Owen Award Contact information IMS Fellow G. Jogesh Babu of Pennsylvania &e "#$% Don Owen Award, given by the IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta State University, and member Joseph M. ASA’s San Antonio Chapter, was presented Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Hilbe of Arizona State University, have been to Clifford Spiegelman at the ,%th annual Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter awarded the International Astrostatistics Conference of Texas Statisticians. Cli( is Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Association (IAA) Outstanding a professor at Texas A&M University. He Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham Contributions to Astrostatistics medal, the earned his doctoral degree in statistics from top award given to members of the global Northwestern University in $+-%; taught Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: astrostatistics and astroinformatics commu- at Florida State, Northwestern, and Johns e [email protected] w http://bulletin.imstat.org nity by the IAA. Both were also elected IAA Hopkins; and served as a scientist at the https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI fellows, as was another IMS fellow, David National Bureau of Standards for nine years van Dyk of Imperial College, London. before joining Texas A&M in $+)-. Contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or &e International Astrostatistics change of address: Association was founded as an independent Doerge receives ACE Fellowship IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office scienti!c association for astrostatistics Rebecca W. Doerge, the Trent and Judith 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A and astroinformatics in "#$", developing Anderson Distinguished Professor of Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA from the International Statistical Institute Statistics and President’s Fellow for Big Data t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] astrostatistics committee and network. &e and Simulation at Purdue, has been awarded t +1 216 295 5661[international] goal of the association from its outset has Fellow of American Council of Education f +1 301 634 7099 been to foster collaboration between statis- (ACE) for "#$%–$-. Each university e [email protected] ticians and astronomers. It also has a goal of nominates only one candidate who shows encouraging the production of educational promise of being an academic leader for ACE Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright books, articles, white papers, and tutorials in fellowship. Read the list of fellows at http:// permission, offprint orders, copyright statistics for the bene!t of the astronomical www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/ACE- transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows community. See http://iaa.mi.oa-brera.inaf.it/ Fellows-Class-of-2016-17.aspx. nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson Dipak Dey appointed Editor-in-Chief of Sankhya IMS Business Office Professor Dipak K. Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut, has been appointed t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious scienti!c journal Sankhya, the Indian journal of statistics. t +1 216 295 5661[international] Dipak is a former editor of the IMS Bulletin, and is a Fellow of IMS, ISBA and ASA, and f +1 216 295 5661 an elected member of the ISI. He is a past-president of the International Indian Statistical e [email protected] Association and in "#$* received the Outstanding Statistician Award from the Connecticut chapter of the ASA. Executive Committee Sankhya is published by &e Indian Statistical Institute. &e journal was founded by President: Richard Davis Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in $+,, and is now published in two series, A and B, in [email protected] collaboration with Springer. All submissions to are now online, using: President-Elect: Jon Wellner Sankhya [email protected] For Series A: http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/13171 Past President: Erwin Bolthausen For Series B: http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/13571 [email protected] Sankhya publishes research articles in the broad areas of theoretical statistics, probability Treasurer: Jean Opsomer and applied statistics. Series A primarily covers theoretical statistics and probability (including [email protected] stochastic processes). Series B primarily covers all areas of applied statistics (including applied Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] probability, applied stochastic processes, econometrics and statistical computing). Reviews Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle and discussion articles in areas of current research activity are also published. Each volume has [email protected] four parts: Series A issues are in February and August, Series B in May and November. = access published papers online August . 2016 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Ed George and Tailen Hsing http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Tilmann Gneiting IMS Members’ News http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Army Wilks Award to Alyson Wilson Annals of Probability: Maria Eulalia Vares http://imstat.org/aop &is year’s Army Wilks Award winner is Alyson Wilson, professor of statistics at North http://projecteuclid.org/aop Carolina State University. &e award—established to commemorate the career of Samuel Annals of Applied Probability: Bálint Tóth http://imstat.org/aap S. Wilks and his service to the Army—is given to a deserving individual who has made a http://projecteuclid.org/aoap substantial contribution to statistical methodology and application a(ecting the practice or Statistical Science: Peter Green application of statistics to problems in defense and security. &e Army Wilks Award is given http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss periodically at the Conference on Applied Statistics in Defense (CASD), which was held IMS Collections October $+–"", "#$., at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm http://projecteuclid.org/imsc IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox Bin Yu to give keynote at Women in Statistics and Data Science conference http://imstat.org/cup/ &e Conference for Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS), organised by the ASA, is IMS Co-sponsored Journals and to be held October "#–"" in Charlotte, North Carolina. WSDS "#$% will bring hundreds of Publications statistical practitioners and data scientists together in celebration of women in statistics and Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci data science. &e focus is to empower women statisticians, biostatisticians, and data scientists http://imstat.org/ejs http://projecteuclid.org/ejs by exchanging ideas and presenting technical
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