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Volume 38 • Issue 7 IMS Bulletin August/September 2009 Election results announced CONTENTS The results are announced for the 2009 1 Election results IMS Elections. The next President-Elect will be Peter Hall. Peter is Professor 2 Members’ News: Jean Opsomer; Len Stefanski; of Statistics in the Department of Klaus Krickeberg Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne; and Professor of Statistics, 3 Nominations sought Department of Statistics, UC Davis (a Peter Hall 4 Medallion preview: Gábor fractional appointment). He will serve Lugosi on the IMS Executive Committee for three years, as President- 5 Members’ Discoveries: Elect (2009–10), President (2010–2011) and Past President Extending the scope of (2011–2012). Empirical Likelihood Five Council members have been elected for a three-year term, 6 Meeting report: WNAR to serve from August 2009 to August 2012. In alphabetical order, they are: 8 Probability and statistics in Marie Davidian Africa (William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University) 9 National Academies Edward George (Universal Furniture Professor and Chairman induction ceremony of the Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of 11 New CUP IMS Monographs Pennsylvania) and IMS Textbooks series Robert Tibshirani (Professor in the Departments of Health 12 Obituary: Kai Lai Chung Research & Policy and Statistics, Stanford University) Michael Titterington (Professor in the Department of Statistics 13 Niss.org: updated at the University of Glasgow, UK), and 15 Rick’s Ramblings: Coming Zhiliang Ying (Professor in the Department of Statistics at soon: The Fourth Edition Columbia University). 16 Terence’s Stuff: “The Flu In addition, this year another Council member has been and I” elected for a two-year term, to finish an unexpired term on a Davar Khoshnevisan 17 IMS meetings vacated Council position. (Professor in the Department of Mathematics, The University of Utah) will serve on Other meetings 20 Council from August 2009 to August 2011. 22 Employment Opportunities The outgoing members of council this year are Martin Barlow, Frank Den Hollander, Iain Johnstone, Karen Kafadar and Xiao-Li 23 International Calendar of Statistical Events Meng. Thanks to all of you for your work! The newly-elected members join Montse Fuentes, Geoffrey Grimmett, Maria Eulalia 27 Information for Advertisers Vares, Jon Wellner, Alan Welsh, Bruce Lindsay, Michael Newton, 28 Kakuro corner Jane-Ling Wang and Bin Yu, and several ex officios on the Council. From above right top to bottom, the newly-elected members of Council are: Marie Davidian, Edward George, Davar Khoshnevisan, Robert Tibshirani, Michael Titterington, and Zhiliang Ying. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 7 Volume 38 • Issue 7 August/September 2009 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 Jean Opsomer receives Gertrude M Cox Award Contact information The Washington Statistical Society (WSS) and RTI International have announced that IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He Jean Opsomer, professor in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University in Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Fort Collins, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of its Gertrude M. Cox Award. Since Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1995, Opsomer has made noteworthy con- Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed tributions to the field of statistics in several areas, including survey research, environmental To contact the IMS Bulletin: statistics, and nonparametric regression. He received the award at the WSS annual dinner IMS Bulletin meeting on June 18, and gave the keynote address, “Aspects of Sampling Design: A Tale 20 Shadwell, Uley, Dursley GL11 5BW of Two Natural Resource Surveys.” The Gertrude M. Cox Award was established in 2003 UK through a joint agreement between WSS and RTI to recognize statisticians in early to mid- e [email protected] career who have made significant contributions to statistical practice. It is given in memory of Gertrude M. Cox (1900–1978), who in the 1950s played a key role in establishing To contact the IMS regarding your dues, Mathematical Statistics and Biostatistics departments at The University of North Carolina membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: at Chapel Hill, and a Statistical Division at the then newly-founded not-for-profit RTI. IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office Past recipients of the award include Sharon Lohr, Alan Zaslavsky, Tom Belin, Vance Berger, 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A Francesca Domenici, and Thomas Lumley. Bethesda MD 20814-3998 USA Len Stefanski named NC State Drexel Professor t 301.634.7029 Dr Leonard (Len) Stefanski has been named Drexel Professor of Statistics at NC State. f 301.634.7099 Stefanski is known internationally for his work in measurement error models. His method e [email protected] of simulation extrapolation (SIMEX) is widely used, and he is one of the authors of Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models, published in 1995. A second edition, titled To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models: A Modern Perspective, was released in 2005. He is permission, offprint orders, copyright a fellow of the American Statistical Association and editor of the Journal of the American transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Statistical Association, Theory and Methods Section. Stefanski, who joined NC State 1986, is nominations and content of publications: associate department head. He served as co-director of the graduate program and is a key Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office member of the department’s NSF Vertical Integration of Research and Education (VIGRE) PO Box 22718 program, a national model for educating statisticians and future problem solvers. Beachwood OH 44122 USA Klaus Krickeberg receives Vietnamese Medal Correction t 216.295.2340 of Merit Ruth J. Williams, f 216.295.5661 Klaus Krickeberg, retired professor at the who was elected to e [email protected] University of Paris V, received the Medal fellowship in the of Merit of the Vietnamese Ministry of American Academy Executive Committee Health for contributions to the health of of Arts and Sciences President: Nanny Wermuth the population. (see July Bulletin, [email protected] page 2) is Professor President-Elect: J. Michael Steele [email protected] AOAS Associate Editor elected to National Academy of Sciences of Mathematics Past President: Jianqing Fan Someone else who was elected as a member of the National at the University [email protected] Academy of Sciences this year is Charles F. Manski, an economist of California at Treasurer: Rong Chen and statistician who is a member of the Annals of Applied Statistics San Diego, and [email protected] editorial board. Charles Manski has been Board of Trustees not a Professor of Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] Professor in Economics at Northwestern University since 1997. Statistics, as stated. Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp His research spans econometrics, judgement and decision, and the Apologies for any [email protected] analysis of social policy. confusion! IMS Editors August/September . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy & Bernard Silverman http://imstat.org/aos Nominations sought Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein Nominations sought for Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science http://imstat.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, named David L. http://imstat.org/aop DeMets, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Information, University of Wisconsin, Annals of Applied Probability: Yuval Peres as the recipient of the 2009 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Dr. http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan DeMets delivered a lecture entitled “Challenges in Clinical Trials; Some Old and Some New” http://imstat.org/sts on May 29 at Harvard University. IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta This annual award, supported by colleagues, friends and family, was established to http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major role http://imstat.org/publications/ in shaping the field of biostatistics. imscollections.htm The award recognizes an individual in government, industry, or academia, who by NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm virtue of his/her outstanding leadership has greatly impacted the theory and practice of sta- tistical science. While individual accomplishments are considered, the most distinguishing IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications criterion is the awardees contribution to the creation of an environment in which statistical Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman science and its applications have flourished. The award recipient will deliver a public lecture http://imstat.org/ejs on statistical science at the Harvard School of Public Health and will be presented with a Electronic Journal of Probability: Bálint Tóth http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp citation and an honorarium. Electronic Communications in Probability: Nominations for next year’s award, to be given