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Election Results Announced We Are Pleased to Announce the Results of the 2015 IMS Council Contents Elections Volume 44 • Issue 5 IMS Bulletin August 2015 Election results announced We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 IMS Council CONTENTS elections. 1 Election results The President-Elect is Jon Wellner. The new Council mem- bers are, in alphabetical order: Andreas Buja, Gerda Claeskens, 2 Members’ News: Sharon- Lise Normand, David Nancy Heckman, Kavita Ramanan and Ming Yuan. Cox, Nancy Reid, Gunnar The new Council members and President-Elect will serve Kulldorff, Ramanathan IMS for three years, starting officially at the IMS Business Jon Wellner President-Elect Gnanadesikan, Nitis Meeting, held this year at JSM Seattle. They will join the Mukhopadhyay, Xuming He, following Council members: Rick Durrett, Steffen Lauritzen, Hao Zhang Susan Murphy, Jonathan Taylor and Jane-Ling Wang (who are on Council for a further year), and Peter Bühlmann, Florentina Bunea, Geoffrey Grimmett, Aad van der Vaart and 4 Rao Prize Conference Naisyin Wang (whose terms last until August 2017). 5 Student Puzzle Corner The new IMS Executive Committee will be Richard Davis (President), Erwin 6 IMS Fellows: a little history Bolthausen (Past President), Jon Wellner (President-Elect), Jean Opsomer (Treasurer), Judith Rousseau (Program Secretary), and Aurore Delaigle (Executive Secretary). Former 7 XL-Files: The ABC of wine and of statistics? President Bin Yu will leave the Executive Committee this year. The new Council members will replace Alison Etheridge, Xiao-Li Meng, Nancy Reid, Obituaries: Peter John, 8 Richard Samworth and Ofer Zeitouni. Bruce Lindsay, Moshe Shaked Serving the statistics and probability community in this way is an often thankless and largely invisible task. We express our gratitude to all those who give their time and energy 10 Meeting: Meta-Analysis to assist the IMS. Thanks too, to those who also stood for election this year. And finally, Workshop thanks to all IMS members who took the time to vote! 12 Recent papers: Bayesian Analysis; Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics These are the new IMS Wald Lectures: Susan 13 Council Murphy members. They 14 Terence’s Stuff: Omne Trium represent you! Perfectum Andreas Buja Gerda Claeskens Thanks for voting 15 IMS meetings Council 2015–18 Council 2015–18 17 Other meetings 19 Employment Opportunities 20 International Calendar 23 Information for Advertisers Read it online at Nancy Heckman Kavita Ramanan Ming Yuan http://bulletin.imstat.org Council 2015–18 Council 2015–18 Council 2015–18 IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 44 . Issue 5 Volume 44 • Issue 5 August 2015 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Sharon-Lise Normand receives Cupples Award Contact information The 2015 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service in IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta Biostatistics has been awarded to Sharon-Lise Normand, professor of biostatistics at Harvard Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Medical School and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter Dr. Normand delivered a presentation, Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Approaches to Comparative Effectiveness Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham Estimation in Prospective Observational Data. Dr. Normand received the award for her Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: research on the development of statistical e [email protected] w http://bulletin.imstat.org methods for health services research, and for https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI her inquiries into methods for the analysis of patterns of treatment and quality of care for Contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or patients with cardiovascular disease and with change of address: mental disorders. Her research also focuses IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office on the development of statistical methods 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A for health services research, primarily using Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA Bayesian approaches to problem solving, including assessment of quality of care, meth- t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Sharon-Lise Normand, left, accepts award from t +1 216 295 5661[international] ods for causal inference, provider profiling, L. Adrienne Cupples, SPH professor of biostatistics. f +1 301 634 7099 meta-analysis, and latent variable modeling. e [email protected] She has also been a leader in the development of methods for the analysis of patterns of treatment and quality of care for patients with cardiovascular disease and with mental Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright disorders. Prof. Normand’s more than 290 peer-reviewed publications have appeared in top permission, offprint orders, copyright journals and had a demonstrable impact on policy and the field. She has served as President of transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society, is a Fellow of the nominations and content of publications: American Heart Association and the recipient of the American Statistical Association Health Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson Policy Statistics Section’s Long Term Excellence Award. IMS Business Office The annual L. Adrienne Cupples Award honors a biostatistician whose academic PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA achievements reflect the contributions to teaching, research, and service exemplified by t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] SPH Professor L. Adrienne Cupples. Dr. Cupples joined the SPH faculty in 1981 and later t +1 216 295 5661[international] served as founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Co-Executive Director of f +1 216 295 5661 the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. During her tenure at BUSPH, she has advanced the e [email protected] field of biostatistics through extensive publications in major journals and book chapters on collaborative and methodological research, development and effective teaching of a wide range Executive Committee of biostatistics courses, and mentorship of numerous graduate students and faculty. President: Erwin Bolthausen To be eligible for the Cupples Award—which includes a $1,000 honorarium—the nomi- [email protected] nee must be an internationally recognized statistician/biostatistician who has made significant President-Elect: Richard Davis [email protected] contributions to the statistical sciences through teaching, research, and service. Past President: Bin Yu [email protected] David Cox, Nancy Reid honored at Rao Conference Treasurer: Jean Opsomer At the 2015 Rao Prize Conference in May 2015, two IMS Fellows were honored. Sir [email protected] David R. Cox, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College at Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] the University of Oxford, received the 2015 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize. The 2015 P.R. Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle Krishnaiah Lecturer was Nancy M. Reid, the University Professor of Statistical Sciences at [email protected] University of Toronto. You can read more about the conference at Penn State on page 4. = access published papers online August . 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 Members’ News http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Gunnar Kulldorff, 1927–2015 Annals of Probability: Maria Eulalia Vares http://imstat.org/aop Gunnar Kulldorff, a Fellow and long time member of IMS, passed http://projecteuclid.org/aop away in Umeå, Sweden, on Thursday June 25. He was Professor emer- Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen http://imstat.org/aap itus in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at http://projecteuclid.org/aoap Umeå University. Gunnar received his PhD from Lund University in Statistical Science: Peter Green 1961, on “Contributions to the Theory of Estimation from Grouped http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss and Partially Grouped Samples.” IMS Collections An obituary will follow in a future issue. http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm Gunnar Kulldorff http://projecteuclid.org/imsc IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, 1932–2015 http://imstat.org/cup/ We have also just learned of the death of IMS Fellow and former Ramanathan Gnanadesikan IMS Co-sponsored Journals and President , who passed away on 6 July Publications 2015. Ram received his PhD from the University of North Carolina. Electronic Journal of Statistics: George Michailidis At Bell Labs for many years, and then at BellCore, he conducted http://imstat.org/ejs http://projecteuclid.org/ejs research in data analysis methodologies, especially multivariate tech- Electronic Journal of Probability: Brian Rider niques including graphical and robust/resistant methods. He was a http://ejp.ejpecp.org fellow of AAAS, ASA, IMS and RSS, and an Elected Member of the Electronic Communications in Probability: Ramanathan Gnanadesi- Sandrine Péché kan. Photo courtesy of International Statistical Institute; he had also served as president of Chhaya Werner http://ecp.ejpecp.org the International Association for Statistical Computing. Ram received Current Index to Statistics: George Styan the 2009 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross Disciplinary Research. An obituary will follow in a http://www.statindex.org log into members' area at imstat.org future issue. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Thomas Lee
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