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Peter Bickel's Royal Decoration Volume 35 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin July 2006 Peter Bickel’s Royal Decoration Jianqing Fan writes: At the conference “Frontiers of Statistics in honor of Peter Bickel’’ CONTENTS held at Princeton University, Professor Peter Bickel of the University of California at 1 Peter Bickel Berkeley, was appointed to the knightly grade of Commander in the Order of Oranje- Nassau by her royal highness Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. The royal decora- 2-6 IMS Members’ News: Chris Field; Ian B MacNeill; tion took place at Princeton University on May 19, 2006 and was conferred by her Muni Srivastava; Peter Excellency the Consul General of the Netherlands in New York, Cora Minderhoud, Donnelly; William B Smith on the behalf of the Queen. “This is one of the highest grades possible,’’ stated 7 Films of Distinguished Statisticians: Chris Heyde Ms Minderhoud. “The Order of Orange Naussau is one of two civil orders of the Terence’s Stuff: Between & 8 Netherlands, created to honor people of Within Merit. It was created by law on April 4, 10 Meeting reports: CSNA; 1892, during the reign of Queen Emma ENAR; Probabilistic of the Netherlands.” Symmetries Peter Bickel, Commander in the Order of Oranje- Professor Bickel was nominated for his Nassau, receives the award from Cora Minderhoud, 12 IMS Meetings efforts in the development of mathemati- Consul General of the Netherlands in New York 18 Other Meetings and cal statistics in the Netherlands. The Royal Committee decided that Professor Bickel Announcements qualifies as “someone who has had a stimulating influence on others; a person who has contributed one or more extraordinary services; as someone who has made professional 21 Employment Opportunities contributions which are of great value to society”. As a world leader in statistical science, Professor Bickel is honored for his contri- 23 International Calendar of butions to the development of mathematical statistics in the Netherlands. For over Statistical Events 30 years, he has collaborated intensively with colleagues in the Netherlands. Many 27 Information for Dutch graduate students have taken part in this joint research, which has contributed Advertisers in an important manner to their scientific education. All present full-time professors 28 Kakuro corner of mathematical statistics in the Netherlands have benefited from their contacts with Professor Bickel at one time or another. As a visiting professor at the University of Leiden he has taught the assembled graduate students of all Dutch universities and he has been a featured speaker at three of the Dutch national statistics conferences at Lunteren. He is a foreign member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences. The Netherlands is host of Eurandom, the European institute for statistics, probability and operations research. As chair of the Scientific Council of Eurandom from its inception, Professor Bickel has guided the scientific program of the institute and contributed to its fast growing reputation in Europe and elsewhere. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 35 . Issue 6 Volume 35 • Issue 6 July 2006 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 SSC Gold Medal awarded to Christopher Field The Statistical Society of Canada today announced that Professor Contact Christopher Field has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Society. Information The Gold Medal is awarded to a person who has made substantial contributions to statistics or probability, either to mathematical Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman developments or in applied work. Assistant Editor Tati Howell Professor Field is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University. He received his To contact the IMS Bulletin: BSc from Dalhousie University and his PhD from Northwestern IMS Bulletin University. At Dalhousie, he was appointed Assistant Professor in 20 Shadwell 1970 and Professor in 1983. Uley, Dursley Professor Field was frequently the Director of Statistics at Dalhousie GL11 5BW UK and the Director of its Consulting Service since 1978. He served e [email protected] as the President of the Statistical Society of Canada and received the Society’s Distinguished Service Award. He has acted as the Program Chair for two of the Society’s annual meetings and as local To contact the IMS regarding your dues, arrangements chair in two others. Professor Field is a Fellow of the membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: American Statistical Association. Professor Field excels as both an applied and theoretical statisti- Institute of Mathematical Statistics cian. He is well known for his work in saddlepoint approximations, Dues and Subscriptions Office 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A robustness, model selection, marine ecology and phylogenetics. Bethesda, He is a world leader in the area of small sample asymptotics. He MD 20814-3998 has collaborated with marine biologists developing methods to USA estimate predator diet from fatty acid signatures. He has been a t 301.634.7029 leading computational scientist at the Atlantic Genome Centre, f 301.634.7099 an acknowledged center of excellence in environmental microbial e [email protected] genetics. To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, Referees for the Annals of Statistics (2005) fellows nominations and content of publications: Morris L. Eaton and Jianqing Fan, Editors of the Annals of Statistics, would like to Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office thank all the members of the statistical PO Box 22718 profession who served as referees for papers Beachwood, during 2005 (all 361 of you!). Without the OH 44122 work of referees, the Annals would not exist USA in its current form. t 216.295.2340 The list of names of referees is at: f 216.295.5661 e [email protected] http://imstat.org/aos/referees_list.2005.html July . 2006 IMs Bulletin . IMS Executive Committee President: Thomas G Kurtz More Members’ News [email protected] President-Elect: Jim Pitman Ian B MacNeill and Muni Srivastava named SSC Honorary Members [email protected] The Statistical Society of Canada has named IMS Fellows Professor Muni Srivastava and Past President: Louis Chen Professor Ian B. MacNeill as Honorary members of the Society. An Honorary member is a [email protected] statistical scientist of outstanding distinction who has contributed to the development of Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen the statistical sciences in Canada. [email protected] Ian B. MacNeill received his undergraduate education in mathematics at the University Treasurer: Jiayang Sun of Saskatchewan and his graduate education in statistics at Stanford University. After [email protected] several years at the University of Toronto, he was appointed Associate Professor of Applied Program Secretary: Andrew Nobel Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 1971 and Professor in 1978, and [email protected] where he coordinated efforts to form the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences (Chair 1980–92). He founded the consulting unit Statlab, and directed it from 1977–92. IMS Editors His many accomplishments include over 150 presentations in at least 23 countries, and Annals of Statistics: Morris Eaton over 100 publications. He has worked in time series, econometrics and the change-point [email protected] problem, with extensive applications ranging from problems in environmental science to & Jianqing Fan [email protected] the forecasting of health care needs. Annals of Probability: Greg Lawler Professor MacNeill is a Fellow of ASA, a Member of ISI, a Fellow of the Institute [email protected] of Mathematics and its Applications, and a Senior Member of the American Society for Annals of Applied Probability: Edward C Waymire Quality Control. In 1995, he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Medal of the [email protected] American Statistical Association on Statistics and the Environment. He was a founding Statistical Science: Ed George Vice-President of the International Environmetrics Society. His citation reads: “To Ian B. [email protected] MacNeill, for fundamental scholarly contributions, ranging from groundbreaking work on the IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Richard Vitale change-point problem and the concept of residual processes for regression models to innovative [email protected] methodology for monitoring and forecasting chronic disease incidence; and for fostering the Managing Editor, Statistics: Paul Shaman advancement of the statistical sciences in his university, in Canada, and in the larger sphere.” [email protected] Professor Srivastava is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Managing Editor, Probability: Michael Phelan Statistics, University of Toronto. He received his BSc at Lucknow [email protected] University in India, and his PhD at Stanford University. He came Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Greven to the University of Toronto in 1963, and has remained there [email protected] since, with visiting appointments at Princeton, the University of Electronic Communications in Probability: David Nualart Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Muni Srivastava [email protected] Indian Statistical Institute. Photo: Peter Macdonald Managing Editor, EJP/ECP: Philippe Carmona A prolific researcher with a very broad range of interests, philippe.carmona@math. univ-nantes.fr combined with a deep knowledge of statistical mathematics, Professor Srivastava
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