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Keep Spreading the News: Student Membership Is Still Free Have You Volume 38 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin July 2009 Keep spreading the news: CONTENTS student membership is still FREE 1 Free student membership Are you a student member of the IMS? If so, please tell your fellow students and collaborators that IMS membership is free for all students—and it includes one free 2-4 Members’ News: Ruth Williams; Guido Imbens; print journal subscription. Similarly, if you teach or supervise students in statistics, Martin Barlow; Richard probability, or related fields, please encourage your students to join the IMS, so we can Johnson; Samuel Kou; Kai Lai continue to grow and increase opportunities for new researchers. Chung; Sylvia Richardson There are many benefits of being a member of the IMS, which will encourage and 5 Members’ Discoveries: support your chosen career path. These include: Fractional Cauchy Problems free electronic access to current and past issues of all our journals (http://www. imstat.org/publications/eaccess.htm); 6 Probability Surveys a subscription to this newsletter, IMS Bulletin; 7 Meeting report: ENAR; IDP reduced subscription rates to our print journals and co-sponsored journals—our 8 Unsubmitted: thoughts on journals are world leaders in their fields for research and review articles—and refereeing reduced rates on other publications (http://www.imstat.org/publications/); discounts at our sponsored meetings (http://www.imstat.org/meetings/). The IMS 11-3 JSM Previews: Wald, Le Cam Lectures; IMS sessions sponsors an Annual Meeting (this year in Washington DC), regional meetings, and special topics meetings. Many of these are held jointly with other societies. It is an 14 Terence’s Stuff: Gender still excellent way to become part of the worldwide statistical scientific community. In on the agenda addition, we have an active New Researchers Committee that sponsors an annual 15 IMS meetings meeting of new researchers in North America. 18 Other meetings the opportunity to apply for the IMS Laha travel award (see http://www.imstat.org/ awards/laha.html), and, for recent PhDs, the Tweedie New Researcher Award (see 21 Employment Opportunities http://www.imstat.org/awards/tweedie.html) 22 International Calendar of There’s no catch! We simply seek students’ participation in IMS’s varied activities: Statistical Events students represent the future of our field. 27 Information for Advertisers If someone is interested in joining IMS they can do so online at https://www.imstat. org/secure/orders/IndMember.asp, or by contacting the Dues and Subscriptions office 28 Kakuro corner (see the address panel on page 2). An invitation to students and new members If you’re planning to attend this year’s JSM, or perhaps reading this article having metIMS the friendly elections: IMS staff team in the JSM Expo, then please do join us at the New Membervoting and Student Welcomecloses Reception (on Monday August 3, 5:30–7:00pm, in the Convention Center,June room 19 149A). There you can have a drink and chat with a genial crowd early onHave at the conference. you It’s a great opportu- nity to meet other student and new graduate members,voted as well as long-time yet? IMS members. We hope to see you there! Last year’s reception at the Annual Meeting in Singapore IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 6 Volume 38 • Issue 6 July 2009 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 American Academy of Arts & Sciences announces 2009 Fellows Contact information The American Academy of Arts & Sciences today announced the election of leaders in IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector. Assistant Editor: Tati Howell The 212 new Fellows and 19 Foreign Honorary Members join one of the nation’s most Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research. Among the Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed new Fellows are an IMS Fellow, Ruth J. Williams and an IMS member, Guido W. Imbens. To contact the IMS Bulletin: Ruth is elected in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Mathematics) section; she is IMS Bulletin Professor of Statistics in the University of California, San Diego. Guido, who is Professor of 20 Shadwell, Uley, Dursley GL11 5BW Economics at Harvard University, was elected in the Social Sciences (Economics) section. UK The scholars, scientists, jurists, writers, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic lead- e [email protected] ers come from 28 states and 11 countries and range in age from 33 to 83. They represent universities, museums, national laboratories, private research institutes, businesses, and To contact the IMS regarding your dues, foundations. This year’s group also includes Nobel laureates and recipients of the Pulitzer membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: and Pritzker prizes, MacArthur Fellowships, Academy, Grammy, and Tony awards, and the IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office National Medal of Arts. 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A The Academy, established in 1780 by founders of the nation, undertakes studies of Bethesda MD 20814-3998 complex and emerging problems. Current projects focus on science, technology and global USA security; social policy and American institutions; the humanities and culture; and educa- t 301.634.7029 tion. The Academy’s membership of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and f 301.634.7099 professions gives it a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary, long- e [email protected] term policy research. “These remarkable men and women have made singular contributions to their fields, To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright and to the world,” said Academy President Emilio Bizzi. permission, offprint orders, copyright The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 10, at the Academy’s head- transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows quarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture PO Box 22718 The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture will be given on Thursday, October 1 by this year’s Beachwood recipient of the prize, Martin Barlow of the University of British Columbia. He is a leading OH 44122 USA figure in probability and the leading international expert in diffu- t 216.295.2340 sion on fractals and other disordered media. f 216.295.5661 The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields e [email protected] Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invite nominations for the joint CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, Executive Committee in recognition of President: Nanny Wermuth exceptional research ASA Board of Directors [email protected] achievement in The American Statistical Association has President-Elect: J. Michael Steele [email protected] the mathematical sciences. The candidate’s elected Nancy Geller as President–Elect Past President: Jianqing Fan research should have been conducted and Roderick Little as Vice-President. The [email protected] primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Council of Sections Board Representative Treasurer: Rong Chen Canadian university. is Jessica Utts and the Council of Chapters [email protected] The prize was established as the CRM- Board Representative is Thomas H. Short Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] Fields prize in 1994. Renamed in 2005, the Full results are published at http://www. Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp 2006 and later prizes will be awarded jointly amstat.org/news/2009electionresults.cfm [email protected] by all three institutes. IMS Editors July . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy & Bernard Silverman http://imstat.org/aos IMS members’ news Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein Richard A. Johnson wins 2009 Don Owen Award http://imstat.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni The Don Owen Award for 2009 was presented to Richard http://imstat.org/aop A. Johnson on March 27, 2009 at the Conference of Texas Annals of Applied Probability: Yuval Peres Statisticians. The award was presented on behalf of the San Antonio http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Following the http://imstat.org/sts presentation, Dr Johnson presented a talk highlighting many issues IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta related to starting and running a journal. He also shared his experi- http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta ences from numerous trips he has taken around the world. http://imstat.org/publications/ Professor Johnson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at the imscollections.htm University of Wisconsin–Madison. He joined this department in 1966 after receiving NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm his PhD from the University of Minnesota, and retired in 2008 after 32 years of service. He is a fellow of both IMS and ASA, a member of the Royal Statistical Society and IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications the International Statistical Institute. Professor Johnson is the founder of Statistics and Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman Probability Letters, and was its Editor-in-Chief from its inception in 1982 until 2007. He http://imstat.org/ejs has served the IMS and the ASA in various capacities. For the IMS, he was a member of Electronic Journal of Probability: Bálint Tóth http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp the Council and the Executive Committee; he also served as the Program Secretary and Electronic Communications in Probability: Associate Program Secretary; he was awarded last year’s Carver Medal in recognition of his Timo Seppäläinen service to the IMS. http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp /ECP/index.php Professor Johnson has served as an ambassador of statistics and has worked tirelessly Current Index to Statistics: George Styan in promoting this discipline all over the world.
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