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Volume 36 • Issue 3 IMS Bulletin April 2007 IMS launches two new journals Statistics Surveys CONTENTS Statistics Surveys is a new open access, electronic journal, sponsored by IMS and the 1 New IMS journals Bernoulli Society. Statistics Surveys publishes survey articles in theoretical, applied, and computational statistics. The style of articles may range from reviews of recent 2–3 IMS Members’ News: Michael Woodroofe, Arak research to graduate textbook exposition. Articles may be broad or narrow in scope. Mathai, Howell Tong The essential requirements are a well-specified topic and target audience, together with clear exposition. 4 Board on Mathematical Jon Wellner Sciences & Applications We are pleased to announce the appointment of , University of Washington, as IMS Executive Editor, and Wendy L. Martinez, US Office of Naval 5 C R Rao Advanced Institute Research, as Coordinating Editor. 7 Profile: Bruno de Finetti Sponsorship from other societies is welcomed. Each sponsoring society appoints its own Executive Editor, who in turn has authority to appoint any number of Associate 8 NSF Statistics Program; Funding for Probability Editors on behalf of their sponsoring society (Associate Editors are sponsored by only one society). An initial set of twenty IMS-sponsored Associate Editors have been IMS Childcare Initiative; 10 appointed; for a listing see http://www.i-journals.org/ss/editors.php. To discuss the NSF-CBMS Conferences potential involvement of a new sponsoring society, please contact Wendy 11 Terence’s Stuff: Model Martinez at [email protected]. Skeptics The journal can be accessed at http://www.i-journals.org/ss/. 12 IMS Meetings You can sign up to receive an email notification of each new issue’s Table of Contents — this also indicates your support, to 17 Other Meetings and Announcements editors and sponsors, for the journal’s work. To submit your paper, please see the instructions at http:// Employment Opportunities 21 www.i-journals.org/ss/submissions.php 23 International Calendar of Statistical Events Electronic Journal of Statistics 27 Information for Advertisers The IMS is launching a new journal called the Electronic Journal of Statistics (EJS) to publish research articles and short notes on theoretical, computational and applied 28 Kakuro corner statistics. The journal is open-access. Articles are refereed and are held to the same standard as articles in other IMS journals. Articles become publicly available shortly after they are accepted. Open-access electronic publishing is becoming an increasingly important part of academic life. EJS joins a growing portfolio of open access journals sponsored jointly by the IMS and the Bernoulli Society. These journals include the research journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability, and the survey journals Probability Surveys and Statistics Surveys (see above). Please see http://www.imstat.org/ejs/ for more details. Most importantly, we invite you to submit your best work to EJS. Jim Pitman, IMS President, and Larry Wasserman, EJS Editor IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 36 . Issue 3 Volume 36 • Issue 3 April 2007 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Michael Woodroofe to receive Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award from the University of Michigan Contact Michael Woodroofe Professor , L. J. Savage Collegiate Professor of Do you have Information Statistics and Mathematics, will receive a Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award from the University of Michigan in Bulletin Editor Xuming He April 2007. The award recognizes Michael’s exemplary record in some news Assistant Editor Tati Howell student supervision and mentoring during his distinguished career. Michael Woodroofe joined the Department of Mathematics at you’d like to To contact the IMS Bulletin: the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 1968. He IMS Bulletin moved to the Department of Statistics when it was founded in share with 20 Shadwell 1969. He has a joint appointment in Mathematics. Uley, Dursley During his 38 years at Michigan, Michael has graduated 40 other IMS GL11 5BW UK PhD students (nine of them women) and is currently working members? e [email protected] with three others. The group of PhD’s includes a mix of domestic and international students. Twenty-four of them are currently in tenured and tenure-track positions, in North American and inter- To contact the IMS regarding your dues, An award, a national institutions. In addition to graduate students, Michael has membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: also mentored many junior faculty members over the years. promotion, Michael Woodroofe is well known in the profession for his Institute of Mathematical Statistics pioneering contributions to statistical theory and probability. His Dues and Subscriptions Office a cause for 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A work in sequential analysis and nonlinear renewal theory has helped Bethesda, to set the research agenda for generations of statisticians. He has celebration? MD 20814-3998 also served the statistical community in many ways, most notably USA as Editor of the Annals of Statistics during 1992–94. t 301.634.7029 Michael has been a pillar of the Statistics Department at f 301.634.7099 Please send Michigan for a long time. He served as Chair of the Department at e [email protected] a very early stage in his career (1977-83) and has been a major pres- it in: don’t ence in the department for almost 40 years. There was a conference To contact the IMS regarding any other in 2005 in Ann Arbor to celebrate his 65th birthday. Michael will be shy! matter, including advertising, copyright officially retire in the summer of 2008. permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows nominations and content of publications: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, India, receives research grant IMS Fellow Arak M. Mathai is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office and Statistics from McGill University, Canada, and Director of the PO Box 22718 Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Kerala, India. He has been Beachwood, awarded a research grant of approximately half a million dollars OH 44122 by the Government of India, to fund faculty recruitment and USA research activities at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Contact t 216.295.2340 the Centre at Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Pala Campus, f 216.295.5661 e [email protected] Arunapuram PO, Pala-686574, Kerala, India, or email cmspala@ gmail.com or [email protected] For more information on vacancies, visiting positions, and the Summer School [Fifth SERC School on Special Functions, Function of Matrix Argument and Applications, 23 April to 25 May, 2007], please see www.cmskerala.org/activities.htm April . 2007 IMs Bulletin . 3 IMS Executive Committee President: Jim Pitman RSS Guy Medal in Silver [email protected] President-Elect: Jianqing Fan Kung-Sik Chan writes: The Royal Statistical Society (UK) has announced the award of the [email protected] Guy Medal in Silver 2007 to Professor Howell Tong, for his many important contributions Past President: Thomas G Kurtz to time series analysis over a distinguished career, and in particular for his fundamental and [email protected] highly influential paper Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data, read to the Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen Society in 1980, which paved the way for a major body of work in nonlinear time series [email protected] modelling. Treasurer: Jiayang Sun Named after the distinguished statistician William Guy FRS, the Guy medals are [email protected] intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their scientific aspects. Of these, Program Secretary: Nicholas Hengartner the Guy Medal in Silver is awarded annually in respect of a paper of special merit [email protected] communicated to the RSS, with general contributions to statistics taken into account. Previous recipients of the medal, which was inaugurated in 1893, include Maurice Bartlett, IMS Editors George Box, David Cox, Henry Daniels, David Kendall, Peter McCullagh, C. R. Rao, Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy Bernard Silverman, Adrian Smith, Peter Whittle, and others. [email protected] Around the late 1970s, Professor Tong introduced the Threshold Autoregressive model, & Bernard Silverman [email protected] a piecewise linear model in which the data generating mechanism may switch between Annals of Probability: Greg Lawler several distinct autoregressive schemes depending on the current value of some threshold [email protected] variable. It has become a standard approach in nonlinear time series analysis. The threshold Annals of Applied Probability: Edward C Waymire idea underlying the Threshold Autoregressive model is akin to the “divide and rule” [email protected] strategy that embodies the fundamental notion of transition between different attractors Statistical Science: Ed George (domains) in a nonlinear dynamical system -- the basis of many important scientific [email protected] notions including phase transition and IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anthony Davison regime shift (e.g. in climate). Through his [email protected] ground-breaking efforts, an even stronger Managing Editor, Statistics: Paul Shaman link has been forged between deterministic [email protected] nonlinear dynamical systems (including Managing Editor, Probability: Michael Phelan chaos) and nonlinear time series analysis. [email protected]
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