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Brown Phd Student Awards Inaugural IMS Lawrence D Volume 48 • Issue 8 IMS Bulletin December 2019 Brown PhD Student Awards Inaugural IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award recipients announced CONTENTS We are pleased to announce the following members have been selected to receive the 1 Winners of Lawrence Brown 2019 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: PhD Student Awards • Yuqi Gu, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan • Didong Li 2–4 Members’ news: Byeong Uk , Department of Mathematics, Duke University Park, Hal Stern, Per Mykland, • Ashwin Pananjady, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, James Robins, Philip Stark, University of California, Berkeley Mark Girolami 5 ENAR Presidential Invited Speaker: Sharon-Lise Normand 6 Student Puzzle Corner deadline extended; The Curious Incident of the Car in the Night-time 7 Nominations: IMS Fellows, Carver, Hall, Tweedie and Travel Yuqi Gu Didong Li Ashwin Pananjady Awards; Doeblin Prize; Zelen Leadership Award The three PhD students will present at an invited session as part of the World 8 Obituary: Murray Rosenblatt Congress/IMS Annual Meeting in Seoul, South Korea, August 17–21, 2020. More information about the congress can be found at http://www.wc2020.org/. If you want 10 Pro Bono Statistics: Yoram Gat on Statisticians and to join them on the program at the World Congress, abstract submission will be open- Democratic Procedures ing soon, with a deadline of March 31, 2020. Lawrence D. Brown (1940–2018), 11 Auditor’s Report Miers Busch Professor and Professor 12 Recent papers: Statistical of Statistics at The Wharton School, Science; Bernoulli University of Pennsylvania, had a distin- 13 Invited sessions at World guished academic career. He was known Congress for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, 14 Meetings recurrence and partial differential 21 Employment Opportunities equations, nonparametric function esti- 29 International Calendar of mation, minimax and adaptation theory, Lawrence D. “Larry” Brown Meetings and the analysis of call-center data. 31 Information for Advertisers Professor Brown’s firm dedication to all three pillars of academia — research, teaching, and service — sets an exemplary model for generations of new statisticians. The IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award advocates for the values by which he lived. Read it online: To donate to the IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award Fund (or another imstat.org/news fund), please visit https://www.imstat.org/shop/donation/. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 48 . Issue 8 Volume 48 • Issue 8 December 2019 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Contact information South Korean Inchon Award for Byeong Park IMS Bulletin Editor: Tati Howell Byeong Uk Park, Professor of Statistics at [email protected] Seoul National University in South Korea, Managing Editor: T.N. Sriram has received the 33rd Inchon Award. The Contributing Editors: Anirban DasGupta, prestigious Inchon Awards honor the Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstan- topoulos, Xiao-Li Meng, Regina Nuzzo, memory of Kim Sung-soo (whose pen- Dimitris Politis, Kavita Ramanan and name was Inchon), former vice-president Terry Speed of the Republic of Korea, founder of Korea w https://imstat.org/news University, and founder of the Dong-A Ilbo https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI (the East Asia Daily), a major newspaper https://twitter.com/InstMathStat in South Korea. The Inchon Foundation, which makes the awards, annually honors IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office individuals for outstanding contributions Contact the IMS regarding your dues, to the advancement of journalism, science, membership, subscriptions, orders or public service, and entrepreneurship. change of address: Professor Park won the award in the field t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] of Science and Technology, for the first t +1 216 295 2340[international] time in statistical science. Each recipient of f +1 216 295 5661 the award is presented with the Letter of e [email protected] Citation, a medal, and a cash prize of 100M IMS Business Office Korean Won (about US$86,000). Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson Byeong U. Park is a Vice President of Contact the IMS regarding any other the ISI, and an IMS Council member. matter, including advertising, copyright He served as the Scientific Secretary of permission, offprint orders, copyright the Bernoulli Society and is elected to transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Fellowship of the IMS and of the ASA. nominations and content of publications: t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Hal Stern appointed UCI Vice Provost for Academic Planning t +1 216 295 2340 [international] IMS Fellow Hal S. Stern has been appointed vice provost for academic planning at the f +1 216 295 5661 University of California, Irvine (UCI). Since joining UCI as e [email protected] founding chair of the statistics department in 2002, Stern has held a range of academic and administrative leadership roles. He Executive Committee served for eight years as chair of statistics, and then more than six President: Susan Murphy years as the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the [email protected] Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He President-Elect: Regina Liu is currently a chancellor’s professor of statistics. Formerly at Iowa [email protected] State University and Harvard University, Stern’s research interests Past President: Xiao-Li Meng include Bayesian methods, model assessment techniques, causal inference, and collaborative [email protected] projects in the life sciences and social sciences. He is co-director of the Center for Statistics Treasurer: Zhengjun Zhang and Applications in Forensic Evidence, funded by the National Institute of Standards [email protected] and Technology, and part of the leadership team for the Conte Center at UCI, funded Program Secretary: Ming Yuan [email protected] by the National Institutes of Health. Stern is a fellow of IMS, the ASA and the American Executive Secretary: Edsel Peña Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served on several expert commit- [email protected] tees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications December . 2019 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Ming Yuan, Richard Samworth http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Karen Kafadar http://imstat.org/aoas IMS Members’ News http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Amir Dembo http://imstat.org/aop Per Mykland receives 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship http://projecteuclid.org/aop IMS Fellow Per Mykland was among only three people awarded Annals of Applied Probability: Francois Delarue, Peter Friz a Guggenheim Fellowship this year in Mathematics or Statistics. http://imstat.org/aap http://projecteuclid.org/aoap These Fellowships are intended for individuals who have demon- Statistical Science: Cun-Hui Zhang strated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship. The http://imstat.org/sts Guggenheim Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications, http://projecteuclid.org/ss IMS Collections and makes around 175 awards, each year. http://projecteuclid.org/imsc Per Mykland is Robert M. Hutchins Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Finance IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: Nancy Reid at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Stevanovich Center for https://www.imstat.org/journals-and- publications/ims-monographs/ Financial Mathematics. He has held appointments at Oxford and Princeton. Mykland grew up in Norway, where he obtained a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, and an IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications MS in Statistics, from the University of Bergen. He received his PhD from the University Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are the statistics and econometrics of http://imstat.org/ejs time dependent processes, including time series and continuous processes. These can occur http://projecteuclid.org/ejs in survival analysis, econometrics, and web data. Highlights include the development of Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Kyprianou https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp likelihood and expansion methods for martingales (fair games), especially in the context of Electronic Communications in Probability: estimating equations. The results have wide application, including the construction of new Giambattista Giacomin https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp nonparametric likelihoods in time series and survival analysis. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: His recent focus is high-frequency data, mainly in economics and finance. In one Tyler McCormick breakthrough, he has shown how to connect the analysis of such data with classical http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs log into members' area at imstat.org statistical techniques, using contiguity. He has contributed to the theory of estimation in Statistics Surveys: David Banks the presence of noise, including the development of the two-scales and pre-averaging esti- http://imstat.org/ss mators of volatility, and other intra-day quantities. He has also developed an approach for http://projecteuclid.org/ssu integrating statistical and market information in the pricing and hedging of options, with Probability Surveys: Ben Hambly http://imstat.org/ps a particular view to hedging against statistical uncertainty. Most recently, he has developed http://www.i-journals.org/ps/ the “observed asymptotic
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