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34 6 ISSUE.Indd Volume 34 Issue 6 IMS Bulletin July 2005 Iain Johnstone elected to NAS Iain M Johnstone was elected ce airs Offi UC Berkeley Aff Photo: Public foray to Berkeley, has been CONTENTS to the US National Academy his scientifi c base ever since. 1 Iain Johnstone of Sciences on May 3 2005. Initially appointed in the Th e NAS elects 72 members Statistics Department, since 2 Members’ News & contacts each year over every branch 1989 his joint appointment 4 Obituary: William Kruskal of science. Of these, typically in Statistics and Biostatistics 5 New UK Statistics Centre fi ve or fewer work in the refl ects the duality of his mathematical sciences, so Iain research. His work in medical 6 Terence’s Stuff : A Toast to should be proud of this recognition. statistics is wide-ranging: he is the model Posters Iain was born in Melbourne, Australia versatile statistician, able to contribute 7 Donate/request IMS and took his BSc and MSc degrees at the right across theory, methodology and journals Australian National University in the late applications, showing how the diff erent 8 Abel Prize for Mathematics 1970s. His Master’s thesis led to his fi rst aspects of our fi eld should support one published paper, joint with his advisor another seamlessly. 9 Mu Sigma Rho Chris Heyde; more unusually his under- Iain’s wider contributions to the 11 Medallion Lecture preview graduate dissertation was itself published profession are prodigious. His term as 13 Minneapolis Events in a monograph series. He then moved to President of IMS (2001–2) was the cul- the USA for his PhD at Cornell, where mination of a remarkable and prolonged 14 IMS Meetings his advisor was Larry Brown. His PhD period of service in more important but 20 Other Meetings and thesis, on admissibility issues in various less visible roles. His leadership in think- Announcements statistical contexts, has led to an enduring ing through important intellectual issues 21 Employment interest in methodological issues, espe- around IMS activities has been highly Opportunities cially in the estimation of high-dimen- signifi cant. To give just one example, he 24 International Calendar of sional parameters in many contexts. One realized the importance of using IMS Statistical Events of his most fascinating papers “Maximum resources to sponsor specialist meetings, entropy and the nearly black object” and instituted our very successful system 27 Information for Advertisers (1992) explained the claims made at the of mini-meetings. An ISI Highly Cited time for the maximum entropy method. Researcher, Iain’s many achievements and He is the author of a series of landmark honors are listed on his biography page at papers in the general area of wavelet http://www.isihighlycited.com/ methods in statistics, recently concentrat- Iain is a wonderful friend and col- ing on empirical Bayes and false discovery league, and is tremendously generous to approaches to threshold selection. His his co-workers both with the main ideas forthcoming monograph Function and with the painstaking attention to Estimation and Gaussian Sequences will be detail needed to bring work to fruition. a defi ning work drawing together his and He is totally committed to our commu- others’ work in this area, and is certain to nity both in human and scientifi c terms. be a springboard for much future devel- His election to the NAS is a mark both opment and application. of his achievement and his promise for In 1981 Iain moved to Stanford the future. It’s a tremendous pleasure to which, apart from a recent temporary congratulate him. 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 34 . Issue 6 IMS Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 6 July 2005 Member News ISSN 1544-1881 David O Siegmund receives Purdue honorary degree Former IMS President David O Siegmund received an honorary Contact Doctor of Science degree from Purdue University at its commence- Information ment ceremony in May. Nineteen degrees were awarded. David, who is the John D and Sigrid Banks Professor of Mathematics Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman at Stanford University, is an elected member of the US National Assistant Editor Tati Howell Academy of Sciences. He describes himself as a “statistician inter- ested in probability theory”, and says, “I focus my research on To contact the IMS Bulletin: statistical problems that arise in concrete scientific applications and Send by email: [email protected] require novel probability theory for their resolution.” He lists among his research interests or mail to: sequential analysis, sequential ‘change-point’ detection, nonlinear regression, and, more IMS Bulletin recently, statistical aspects of genetic mapping. 20 Shadwell Uley, Dursley GL11 5BW New Fellows elected to the UK Royal Society UK Forty-four pre-eminent scientists from the UK and Commonwealth have joined the ranks of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking by being elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society — the UK national academy of science. Among them are two IMS To contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or members, David Spiegelhalter and Martin Barlow. change of address: Dr David Spiegelhalter of the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge University has been elected for his work developing statistical techniques for Institute of Mathematical Statistics Dues and Subscriptions Office complex problems, such as monitoring how well medical professionals are performing. 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A Martin Barlow, Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of British Bethesda, Columbia, and an IMS Fellow, is noted for a variety of contributions to mathematical MD 20814-3998 probability, including the analysis of diffusions on fractals, work on partial differential USA equations, and his thesis work on expansions of filtrations. t 301.634.7029 Both will be profiled in the next issue. f 301.634.7099 Lord May of Oxford, President of the Royal Society, said: “These new Fellows of the e staff@imstat.org Royal Society are among the best scientists in the UK and Commonwealth. In being elected to the Fellowship they follow in the footsteps of the august scientists of the last To contact the IMS regarding any other three and a half centuries.” matter, including advertising, copyright permission, offprint orders, copyright David Spiegelhalter (below left) and Martin Barlow transfer, societal matters, meetings, (below): two of the new Fellows of the Royal Society fellows nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office PO Box 22718 Beachwood, OH 44122 USA t 216.295.2340 f 216.295.5661 e [email protected] Executive Committee July . 2005 IMS Bulletin . 3 President Louis Chen [email protected] President-Elect Thomas G Kurtz [email protected] George Dantzig, the ‘Father of Linear Programming’ dies, aged 90 Past President Terry Speed We announce the passing of George Bernard Dantzig, professor [email protected] emeritus at Stanford University and also a former professor at UC Executive Secretary Alicia Carriquiry Berkeley, where he founded the Operations Research Department [email protected] now known as IEOR. He was also a former graduate student in Treasurer Jiayang Sun the Berkeley Mathematics Department: he was Jerzy Neyman’s first [email protected] PhD student in the US. Program Secretary Andrew Nobel Widely known for his work in linear programming (LP) and George B Dantzig, [email protected] combinatorial optimization, Dantzig introduced the simplex the “father of linear method and variants for solving such problems. As far back as 1955 programming” Photo from MacTutor archives IMS Editors he pioneered the introduction of stochastic LP problems. His 1963 at http://www-history.mcs. Annals of Statistics Morris Eaton st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathemati- volume Linear Programming and Extensions, sometimes referred cians/Dantzig_George.html [email protected] to as “the Bible of operations research”, was recently listed by & Jianqing Fan [email protected] Princeton University Press as being one of the 100 most important and influential publications which the Press produced during the Annals of Probability Steven Lalley [email protected] last century. Our condolences to his wife, Anne; their three children, David, Annals of Applied Probability Robert Adler Jessica and Paul; and their families. An obituary will appear in the [email protected] next issue. Statistical Science Ed George [email protected] Jessica Utts named as 2005 Carver Medal recipient ISI Service IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series Richard Vitale Jim Pitman writes: Jessica Utts, Department Certificates [email protected] of Statistics at the University of California Three IMS mem- Managing Editor - Statistics at Davis, was treasurer of the IMS from bers have received Paul Shaman 1988-1994. During her term of service she recognition from [email protected] guided the organization through major staff the International Managing Editor - Probability transitions, the establishment of a new jour- Statistical Institute Michael Phelan nal and the modernization of its business for many years of [email protected] practices. She also was instrumental in the service “above and Electronic Journal of Probability photo: Robertphoto: Knight establishment of a gift membership program beyond the call of Ted Cox [email protected] for colleagues in developing countries and a travel award program duty”. for new researchers. For this and numerous other contributions The ISI Service Electronic Communications in Probability Martin Barlow to the IMS, Professor Utts is an extremely worthy recipient of the Certificates [email protected] Harry C. Carver Medal for exceptional service to the Institute of were conferred Managing Editor - EJP/ECP Mathematical Statistics. upon: Yadolah Zhenqing Chen Look out for a profile in a future issue! 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