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Carver Award: Lynne Billard We Are Pleased to Announce That the IMS Carver Medal Committee Has Selected Lynne CONTENTS Billard to Receive the 2020 Carver Award Volume 49 • Issue 4 IMS Bulletin June/July 2020 Carver Award: Lynne Billard We are pleased to announce that the IMS Carver Medal Committee has selected Lynne CONTENTS Billard to receive the 2020 Carver Award. Lynne was chosen for her outstanding service 1 Carver Award: Lynne Billard to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows; for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987–90), culminating 2 Members’ news: Gérard Ben Arous, Yoav Benjamini, Ofer in the forging of a partnership with the Bernoulli Society that includes co-hosting the Zeitouni, Sallie Ann Keller, biannual World Statistical Congress; and for her advocacy of the inclusion of women Dennis Lin, Tom Liggett, and young researchers on the scientific programs of IMS-sponsored meetings.” Kavita Ramanan, Ruth Williams, Lynne Billard is University Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Thomas Lee, Kathryn Roeder, University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Jiming Jiang, Adrian Smith Lynne Billard was born in 3 Nominate for International Toowoomba, Australia. She earned both Prize in Statistics her BSc (1966) and PhD (1969) from the 4 Recent papers: AIHP, University of New South Wales, Australia. Observational Studies She is probably best known for her ground-breaking research in the areas of 5 News from Statistical Science HIV/AIDS and Symbolic Data Analysis. 6 Radu’s Rides: A Lesson in Her research interests include epidemic Humility theory, stochastic processes, sequential 7 Who’s working on COVID-19? analysis, time series analysis and symbolic 9 Nominate an IMS Special data. She has written extensively in all Lecturer for 2022/2023 these areas, publishing over 250 papers in Lynne Billard leading international journals, plus eight 10 Obituaries: Richard (Dick) Dudley, S.S. Shrikhande, books, and chapters in a number of acclaimed edited Mark H.A. Davis volumes. Lynne has served as president of the American 13 Student Puzzle Corner Statistical Association and the International Biometric 14 Meet the new IMS Fellows Society, only the third person to have led both organiza- 17 New healthcare stats podcast tions. She also served as principal investigator for “Pathways to the Future,” an annual NSF workshop which ran from 1988– Meetings (including online) 18 2004 and focused on mentoring women who had recently received PhDs in Statistics, 23 Employment Opportunities and were primarily entering academic positions. Among her awards, in 2011, Lynne Billard received the tenth annual Janet L. 24 International Calendar of Meetings Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences, and she was selected by COPSS to receive the 2013 F.N. David Award and the 2008 27 Information for Advertisers Elizabeth Scott Award. She is a Fellow of IMS and ASA, and an elected member of the ISI. From the ASA, she received the 1999 Samuel Wilks Award (for research) and the 2003 Founders Award (for service). Read it online: You can read more about Lynne’s life and career, in conversation with Nitis imstat.org/news Mukhopadhyay, in the 2017 Statistical Science article (Vol 32, No. 1, pp.138–164): see https://imstat.org/journals-and-publications/statistical-science/conversations/. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 49 . Issue 4 Volume 49 • Issue 4 June/July 2020 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 New Members elected to National Academy of Sciences Contact information The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the IMS Bulletin Editor: Tati Howell election of 120 members and 26 international members, in recogni- [email protected] tion of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original Managing Editor: Bob Keener research. 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