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IMS Bulletin Volume 38 • Issue 1 IMS Bulletin January/February 2009 Editor’s Message CONTENTS Xuming He writes: 1 Share your news! The IMS Bulletin has been following through with the plans and wishes laid out in my editor’s message in the January/February issue of 2007, by focusing on people, 2 Members’ News: Mark events, and the issues that our members care about. I am grateful to our Contributing Becker; Rick Durrett; Xuming Editors—Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, and Terry Speed—and He; George McCabe; George many others who keep sending us ideas and reports. Roussas; Thomas Santner; Yet we can do more. Today, I call upon more of our members to write to us with Bin Yu; Jianwen Cai; Tony “IMS Members’ News”. If you, or your colleagues, have something to share, whether it Cai; Chunming Zhang; Ying is an honor, an award, or a discovery, do let us know (email [email protected]). If it Wei; I. J. Good; Grace Wahba; is something you care about, it’s likely that your fellow IMS members will care about it Yoonkyung Lee; Xihong Lin too. You do not have be a department chair or an IMS executive to be a messenger. In 4 Journal news fact, the Bulletin is for you, as a valued IMS member. 5 IMS Awards: nominate now Speaking of sharing a discovery, I would like to interpret it very broadly. If your work leads to a new ozone model for better prediction or a new law of large numbers The Market for Scholarly 6 for epidemic models, just to make up two examples, you may wish to share your Articles excitement with us. If a sufficiently large number of members write in this year, the 7 Meeting: Conference in Bulletin has the capacity to start a new series, “IMS Members’ Discoveries”. It will not Economics and Statistics in be just a collection of abstracts, but it will feature the little (or big) discoveries that you honor of T W Anderson have made through your scholarly work that can be shared and appreciated by many 8 Cindy Greenwood others. Festschrift On behalf of the editorial team at the Bulletin, I wish everyone a happy, healthy 9 Award nominations and productive new year! 10 Obituary: David Freedman 12 Annual Survey report 14 Terence’s Stuff: Terry’s advice to job-hunters we want 15 IMS meetings 19 Other meetings 22 Employment Opportunities 28 International Calendar of Statistical Events 31 Information for Advertisers you 32 Kakuro corner to write in and tell us your news! IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 1 Volume 38 • Issue 1 January/February 2009 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 Contact information American Association for the Advancement of Science elects new Fellows IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council Assistant Editor: Tati Howell elected 486 members as new Fellows of AAAS, among whom are several IMS members. Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed the Fellows Forum to be held on 14 February, 2009, during the AAAS Annual Meeting in To contact the IMS Bulletin: Chicago (http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2009/). The IMS members who are 2008 AAAS IMS Bulletin Fellows are: Mark Becker, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, 20 Shadwell, Uley, Dursley Richard T. Durrett GL11 5BW University of South Carolina; , Professor of Mathematics, Cornell UK University and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences; Xuming He, Professor e [email protected] of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; George P. McCabe, Professor of Statistics, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Science, Purdue University; To contact the IMS regarding your dues, George C. Roussas, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis; Thomas J. membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: Santner, Professor of Statistics, Ohio State University; and Bin Yu, Professor of Statistics, IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office University of California, Berkeley. In addition, Bernie Devlin (University of Pittsburgh 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A School of Medicine) and Leland Wilkinson (SYSTAT Inc) were elected AAAS Fellows in Bethesda MD 20814-3998 the Statistics Section. USA t 301.634.7029 International Chinese Statistical Association election news f 301.634.7099 The new ICSA President-Elect is Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. e [email protected] The newly-elected directors of the ICSA board (2009–2011) include IMS members Jianwen Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Tony Cai, The Wharton School, To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright University of Pennsylvania; and Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Also permission, offprint orders, copyright elected as directors are Ouhong Wang, Medical Sciences at Amgen, and Jun Zhu, Institute transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows of Bioinformatics at Zhejiang University. nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office Career Development Award I.J. Good honored with “The Good Book” PO Box 22718 Ying Wei, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, The Virginia Tech Department of Statistics Beachwood Columbia University, has received a Career has honored the contributions of IMS OH 44122 USA Development Award from the NIEHS Fellow I. J. Good with a reception on the t 216.295.2340 (National Institute of Environmental occasion of the publication of The Good f 216.295.5661 Health Sciences) Center for Environmental Book. The book is a collection of his e [email protected] Health in Northern Manhattan, for her sta- “comments, conjectures and conclusions”, tistical work in quantile regression methods compiled with the assistance of David Executive Committee with applications to environmental health Banks and Eric Smith. These “CCCs”, as President: Nanny Wermuth studies. Ying Wei obtained her PhD from Good calls them, cover a wide range of [email protected] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (mainly) statistical topics, including the law, President-Elect: J. Michael Steele [email protected] in 2004, and has published actively in both computation, physics, biology, and statisti- Past President: Jianqing Fan statistics and health cal history. The book is available from Rice [email protected] sciences journals. Ying Wei University Press. Treasurer: Rong Chen Her work has also I.J. Good has just turned 92, in [email protected] been supported December. Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] by NSF (as PI) and NIH (as co- investigator). IMS Editors January/February . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy & Bernard Silverman http://imstat.org/aos IMS members’ news Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein http://imstat.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Gregory Lawler Korean Statistical Society honored lecturers http://imstat.org/aop Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been selected as the Ilsong Lecturer Annals of Applied Probability: Edward Waymire by the Korean Statistical Society this year, an honor given to renowned statisticians to http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan deliver a plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the society. http://imstat.org/sts The meeting took place at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea on October 31 and IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta November 1 in 2008. Grace gave a lecture entitled ‘Combining Attribute Data and Sketchy http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta Similarity/Network Information in Nonparametric Regression and Classification’. Also, http://imstat.org/publications/ Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presented a special invited lecture imscollections.htm in the meeting. The title of his lecture was ‘A Quantile Approach to Ordinal Regression NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm with Application to Aging Research’. For Grace’s first visit to Seoul, her former student, Yoonkyung Lee, The Ohio State IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications University, accompanied her as a guide and interpreter, and Yoonkyung gave a tutorial on Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman ‘Kernel Methods in a Regularization Framework’ as the opening program of the meeting. http://imstat.org/ejs They are all grateful to the committee members of the Korean Statistical Society who Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Greven http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp worked hard to run the meeting smoothly and especially to Professors Byeong U. Park Electronic Communications in Probability: David Nualart (Seoul National http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp University) and /ECP/index.php Current Index to Statistics: George Styan Tae Yoon Kim http://www.statindex.org (Keimyung Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: University) for their David van Dyk http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs hospitality and Statistics Surveys: Jon Wellner thoughtful arrange- http://imstat.org/ss ments during the Probability Surveys: David Aldous http://imstat.org/ps visit. IMS Supported Journals Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B): Alice Guionnet Left to right: Byeong http://imstat.org/aihp U. Park, Yoonkyung Lee, Grace Wahba, and Bayesian Analysis: Brad Carlin Xuming He after the http://ba.stat.cmu.edu Ilsong Lecture Bernoulli: Holger Rootzén http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics: Silvia Ferrari Xihong Lin receives Janet L. Norwood Award http://imstat.org/bjps IMS Fellow Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard’s School of Public Health, IMS Affiliated Journals was the recipient of the Seventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding ALEA: Latin American Journal of Probability and Statistics: Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. She accepted the award at the Claudio Landim University of Alabama at Birmingham on September 17, 2008.
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