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Downloads Over 8,000) Volume 42 • Issue 1 IMS Bulletin January/February 2013 2013: International Year of Statistics CONTENTS IMS President Hans Künsch writes: 2013 is a special year for IMS 1 2013, the International since we celebrate not only the International Year of Statistics, but Year of Statistics also the special year for Mathematics of Planet Earth. This gives us unique opportunities to promote the importance of our fields to 2 Members’ News: Terry other scientific communities, to decision makers in politics, business Speed, Bob Blumenthal, and industry, to students, and to the general public. David Findley; AOAS Hans Künsch We all have experienced the fascination and joy that the analysis 3 IMS Journal News; of chance, data and uncertainty brings. We are aware of the astonishing achievements Facebook page; NSF that have been made in our field and of the impact and importance it has on our update society. We are also convinced that our field can contribute much to solve the chal- 4 Blackwell lecture; lenges that we currently face. However, not all of this is recognized in other scientific Lefkopolou lecture areas and among the general public. In particular, statistics is still too often viewed as 5 Obituary: Jack Hall a dull, marginal or dubious activity with a potential for manipulation and distortion. Hence the International Year of Statistics gives us a platform to reach out and present 6 Recent papers: Electronic Communications in Probab- a more accurate view of our field. The year of ility; Electronic Journal of Mathematics of Planet Earth allows us in addi- Probability tion to present the contributions of probability and statistics to modeling earthquakes, weather 7 X-L Files: Statisticians’ Impact: From Backyard to and climate, evolution, epidemics, agriculture, Bedroom? water and other processes. This is best done at the grassroots level. It 11 SAMSI News would be great if many IMS members could 13 Child Care; IMS Awards contribute, for example by writing articles for 15 Terence’s Stuff: n vs. n−1 the press, or giving lectures to wider audiences. But even if you don’t have the capacity or 16 IMS meetings ideas for special activities, it will already make 20 Other meetings a difference if you mention the celebration of 24 Employment Opportunities the International Year of Statistics and the year of Mathematics of Planet Earth whenever you 28 International Calendar of have a chance to do so. In particular you can link your webpage to the webpages for Statistical Events Childcare grant for JSM Montreal 2013 these events: http://www.statistics2013.org and 31 Information for Advertisers http://mpe2013.org Apply by June 1: http://imstat.org/ IMS will put all of its ongoing activities under the umbrella of the International Year of meetings/childcare.htm Statistics—and, where appropriate, Mathematics of Planet Earth. In addition, we will have a number of special lectures and co-sponsored meetings and special issues of our journals dedicated to this special year. Stay tuned for more announcements! I look forward to a unique and exciting year for probability and statistics. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 42 . Issue 1 Volume 42 • Issue 1 January/February 2013 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Terry Speed receives Australia’s Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation Contact information Terry Speed, who is well-known to readers of the IMS Bulletin, is a world leader in bioin- IMS Bulletin Editor: Dimitris Politis formatics. He has been recognized for his pioneering work by the awarding of Australia’s Assistant Editor: Tati Howell $50,000 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation for Life Sciences. Contributing Editors: Professor Terry Speed is head of the Bioinformatics Division of the Walter & Eliza Hall Peter Bickel, Anirban DasGupta, Nicole Lazar, Xiao-Li Meng, Terry Speed Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). Originally trained in mathematics and statistics, he has had a lifelong interest in genetics. Together with his students and colleagues, Terry has Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: developed methods of analysis now in daily use in research laboratories worldwide under- pinning many of the recent advances in medical research. This work has helped to identify e bulletin@imstat.org areas of the human genome that contribute to cancer, genes that are vital for embryonic w http://bulletin.imstat.org development and pinpointing malaria proteins responsible for initiating infection in human Contact the IMS regarding your dues, red blood cells. He is a Fellow of IMS and the Australian Academy of Science, was awarded membership, subscriptions, orders or the NHMRC Achievement Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research in 2007 change of address: and an Australian Fellowship in 2009. Most recently he was presented with the 2012 IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office Thomson Reuter’s Citation Award. According to his colleagues, he is a living Australian 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 treasure. Terry’s column is on page 15. USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Bob Blumenthal: 1931–2012 t +1 216 295 5661[international] From The Seattle Times, November 15–18, 2012 Obituaries: “Robert M. Blumenthal, born f +1 301 634 7099 February 7, 1931 in Evanston IL, passed away peacefully on November 8, at the age of 81, after e staff@imstat.org several years of dementia. Bob was an accomplished violinist in high school before focusing on tennis, captaining his college tennis team, and winning the Ohio Conference singles title. He Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright graduated from Oberlin in 1952 with a BA in Mathematics, married Sarah Whelpton, and permission, offprint orders, copyright began doctoral studies at Cornell. Upon receiving his PhD in 1956, Bob accepted a position transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows with the UW Math Department, where he was active in researching, teaching and mentoring nominations and content of publications: until his retirement in 1997.” Bob Blumenthal was an IMS Fellow. An obituary is being Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson written and will be published here soon. IMS Business Office PO Box 22718, Beachwood AOAS marks Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 Festschrift for David Findley’s work OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Dozens of universities, The career and contributions of David t +1 216 295 5661[international] research institutes, Findley, former Senior Mathematical f +1 216 295 5661 foundations, and scien- Statistician for Time Series Methods at the e erg@imstat.org tific societies, including the IMS, US Census Bureau, have been honored have joined forces to celebrate 2013 with a Festschrift. Economic Time Series: Executive Committee as a special year for the Mathematics of Modeling and Seasonality, edited by William President: Hans R. Künsch Planet Earth (see cover article). The Annals Bell, Scott Holan and Tucker McElroy is president@imstat.org of Applied Statistics has been publishing published by Chapman Hall/CRC Press, President-Elect: Bin Yu president-elect@imstat.org cutting edge research in this area for five with papers by forty-three contributors Past President: Ruth Williams years, including the physical, ecological, and from fourteen president-past@imstat.org socioeconomic aspects of our planet. As a countries. McElroy Treasurer: Jean Opsomer prelude to MPE2013, the December 2012 and Holan’s “A jopsomer@stat.colostate.edu issue of the Annals of Applied Statistics will Conversation with Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau rousseau@ceremade.dauphine.fr feature a special section dedicated to this David Findley” is Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle theme. See forthcoming papers at http:// forthcoming in a.delaigle@ms.unimelb.edu.au imstat.org/aoas/next_issue.html Statistical Science. David Findley = access published papers online w IMS Journals and Publications January/February . 2013 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Peter Hall and Runze Li http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Stephen Fienberg http://imstat.org/aoas IMS Journal editors http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Krzysztof Burdzy http://imstat.org/aop Several IMS core and co-sponsored publications have new editors, whose three-year http://projecteuclid.org/aop terms start January 1, 2013. Timo Seppäläinen is the new editor of the Annals of Applied Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen Probability, taking over from Andrew Barbour. Stephen Fienberg http://imstat.org/aap http://projecteuclid.org/aoap is now Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics, taking Statistical Science: Jon Wellner the reins from founding editor Brad Efron. Peter Hall and Runze http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss Li take on the co-editorship of the Annals of Statistics, from Peter IMS Collections Bühlmann and Tony Cai. Two of the co-sponsored publications, http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and the Electronic Journal of Statistics, http://projecteuclid.org/imsc also have new editors. Thomas Lee takes over from Richard Levine as editor of the Journal IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox http://imstat.org/cup/ of Computational and Graphical Statistics, and David Ruppert hands over to George Michailidis editorship of the Electronic Journal of Statistics. IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications Thank you to all the outgoing, incoming and serving editors, and associate editors, for Electronic Journal of Statistics:
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