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Kavita Ramanan; Nicolai Society for Industrial and Applied Meinshausen Mathematics (SIAM) in 2010 Volume 44 • Issue 4 IMS Bulletin June/July 2015 Donald Geman elected to NAS The USA’s National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members and 21 foreign CONTENTS associates from 15 countries this year, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing 1 NAS elects Don Geman achievements in original research. Among them was IMS Fellow Donald Geman, who is Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins 2 Members’ News: AMS Fellows, Alison Etheridge, University, Baltimore, MD, and simultaneously a visiting professor at École Normale Emery Brown Supérieure de Cachan. Donald Geman was born in Chicago in 1943. He graduated from the University 3 Carver Award: Patrick Kelly of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965 with a BA in English Literature and from 4 IMS Travel Awards Northwestern University in 1970 with a PhD in Mathematics. He worked as a 5 Puzzle deadline extended; Professor in the Department of IMU Itô travel awards Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts 6 IMS Fellows following graduation, until he 8 Obituary: Evarist Giné joined Johns Hopkins University 9 Recent papers: AIHP in 2001. Donald was elected a Fellow 10 Medallion Lectures: Grégory Miermont; of IMS in 1997, and of the Kavita Ramanan; Nicolai Society for Industrial and Applied Meinshausen Mathematics (SIAM) in 2010. He gave an IMS Medallion Lecture 13 Treasurer’s Report in 2012 at JSM San Diego, on 15 Terence’s Stuff: Ideas “Order Statistics and Gene Regulation.” (See photo.) Donald Geman (right) gave an IMS Medallion Lecture in 2012 16 IMS meetings at JSM in San Diego. He is pictured here with Peter Bickel, who Donald Geman and Joseph chaired the session. 21 Other meetings Horowitz published a series 26 Employment Opportunities of papers during the late 1970s on local times and occupation densities of stochastic 27 International Calendar processes. In 1984, with his brother Stuart, he published a milestone paper which is still today one of the most cited papers in the engineering literature—according to Google 31 Information for Advertisers Scholar the paper has over 16,900 citations. It introduces a Bayesian paradigm using Markov Random Fields for the analysis of images, and the Gibbs sampler algorithm. This approach has been highly influential over the last 30 years and remains a rare tour de force in this rapidly evolving field. In another milestone paper, in collaboration with Yali Amit, he introduced randomized decision trees—what Leo Breiman called random forests. Donald lists his current research areas as Computational Vision (scene interpretation by “entropy pursuit” and Turing tests for vision systems) and Computational Molecular Medicine (rank discriminants for predicting Read it online at cancer phenotypes, hardwiring biological mechanisms into statistical http://bulletin.imstat.org learning, and modeling tumorigenesis). Read more on his website: http://www.cis.jhu.edu/people/faculty/geman/current-projects/ jsm/2015/housing.cfm http://www.amstat.org/meetings/ JSM Seattle:Hotel rooms book selling now! fast IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 44 . Issue 4 Volume 44 • Issue 4 June/July 2015 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Bruce Lindsay, Contact information The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program rec- 1947–2015 IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta ognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the Bruce Lindsay, 68, Assistant Editor: Tati Howell creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of passed away May Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter mathematics. The 2015 class of fellows included these IMS members: 5 in State College, Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Maury Bramson, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities: For PA. An obituary Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham contributions to stochastic processes and their applications. was printed at www. 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Fraser, University of Toronto: For contributions to State; he contributed IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office the theory and foundations of statistics, as well as for leadership and important innova- 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A influence on the advancement of the statistical sciences. tions in the theory Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 Jonathan Mattingly USA , Duke University: For contributions to the of mixture models t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] analysis of stochastic systems. and likelihood-based t +1 216 295 5661[international] estimation. f +1 301 634 7099 e [email protected] Alison Etheridge elected Fellow of the UK Royal Society Professor of Probability in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at the University Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright of Oxford, Alison Etheridge, has been elected one of the 47 new Fellows and 10 new Foreign permission, offprint orders, copyright Members of the Royal Society. transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows According to the Royal Society’s website, “Alison Etheridge has nominations and content of publications: made significant contributions in the theory and applications of prob- Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson ability and in the links between them. Her particular areas of research IMS Business Office have been in measure-valued processes (especially superprocesses PO Box 22718, Beachwood and their generalisations); in theoretical population genetics; and Blok Edmund OH 44122, USA Alison Etheridge t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] in mathematical ecology. A recent focus has been on the genetics of t +1 216 295 5661[international] spatially extended populations, where she has exploited and developed inextricable links with f +1 216 295 5661 infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis. Her resolution of the so-called ‘pain in the torus’ is e [email protected] typical of her work in that it draws on ideas from diverse areas, from measure-valued processes to image analysis. The result is a flexible framework for modelling biological populations Executive Committee which, for the first time, combines ecology and genetics in a tractable way, while introducing President: Erwin Bolthausen a novel and mathematically interesting class of stochastic processes. The breadth of her contri- [email protected] butions is further illustrated by the topics of her four books, which range from the history of President-Elect: Richard Davis [email protected] financial mathematics to mathematical modelling in population genetics.” Past President: Bin Yu The Magdalen College Oxford website (Alison is a Magdalen Fellow by Special Election) [email protected] states that Alison “became interested in the interface between probability and analysis, where Treasurer: Jean Opsomer she was particularly attracted by the way in which probabilistic arguments could be employed [email protected] to provide untuitively appealing proofs of abstract results. … Drawn to study superprocesses by Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] their rich and beautiful mathematical structure, she sees them as having provided a first taste Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle of modelling biological populations… Most recently her central interest has been a collection [email protected] of mathematical problems arising in theoretical population genetics.” = access published papers online June/July . 2015 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Hall and Runze Li http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Stephen Fienberg IMS Carver Award http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Patrick Kelly selected to receive 2015 Carver Medal Annals of Probability: Maria Eulalia Vares http://imstat.org/aop IMS Council has approved the nomination http://projecteuclid.org/aop of Senior Production Editor Patrick Kelly for Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen http://imstat.org/aap the 2015 Carver Medal, as recommended by http://projecteuclid.org/aoap the Committee to Select the Carver Award. 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