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Volume 46 • Issue 3 IMS Bulletin April/May 2017 2017 Tweedie Award winner CONTENTS The Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1 Tweedie Award has selected Rina Foygel Barber as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New 2 Members’ News: Danny Pfeffermann, Peter Researcher Award. Guttorp, Rajen Shah, Anton Rina is an Assistant Professor in the Wakolbinger Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, since January 2014. In 3 Members’ News: ISI Elected members’ IMS elections; 2012–2013 she was an NSF postdoctoral Photo quiz fellow in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, supervised by 4 Obituaries: Stephen E. Fienberg, Ulf Grenander Emmanuel Candès. Before her postdoc, she received her PhD in Statistics at the Pro Bono Statistics: Yoram Rina Barber 7 University of Chicago in 2012, advised Gat’s new column by Mathias Drton and Nati Srebro, and a MS in Mathematics at the University of 9 Recent papers: Stochastic Chicago in 2009. Prior to graduate school, she was a mathematics teacher at the Park Systems, Probability Surveys School of Baltimore from 2005 to 2007. 10 Donors to IMS Funds Rina lists her research interests as: high-dimensional inference, sparse and low-rank models, and nonconvex optimization, particularly optimization problems arising in 12 Meeting report medical imaging. Her homepage is https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~rina/. 13 Terence’s Stuff: It Exists! The IMS Travel Awards Committee selected Rina “for groundbreaking contribu- 14 Meetings tions in high-dimensional statistics, including the identifiability of graphical models, low-rank matrix estimation, and false discovery rate theory. A special mention is made 22 Employment Opportunities for her role in the development of the knockoff filter for controlled variable selection.” Rina will present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New 23 International Calendar Researchers Conference, held this year at the Johns Hopkins University from July 27 Information for Advertisers 27–29 (see http://groups.imstat.org/newresearchers/conferences/nrc.html). On hearing about her award, Rina said, “I feel so honored to be selected for this award. There is so much exciting new research in statistics right now, and it’s been an incredible experience to be a part of the growing research community in high-dimen- sional statistics and inference. I’m looking forward to getting to meet colleagues and learn about new research directions at the New Researchers Conference this summer.” We asked what she was planning for her lecture. She replied, “I am tentatively thinking that I will talk about distribution-free inference for prediction and classification prob- lems, but the two projects I’m working on in these areas are both still in early stages so Read it online at this could change!” bulletin.imstat.org IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 46 . Issue 3 Volume 46 • Issue 3 April/May 2017 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Royal Statistical Society (RSS) West Medal to Danny Pfeffermann Contact information Danny Pfeffermann has had a long career in social statistics, with IMS Bulletin Editor: Vlada Limic particular methodological interests in time series, multilevel mod- Assistant Editor: Tati Howell elling, survey non-response and small area estimation. He has for Contributing Editors: Anirban DasGupta, many years held down multiple roles; he has been President of the Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstan- topoulos, Xiao-Li Meng, Regina Nuzzo, Israeli Statistical Society and is currently the National Statistician Dimitris Politis, Kavita Ramanan and in Israel, a Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Terry Speed Professor of Social Statistics at Southampton University (UK), Danny Pfeffermann while continuing a role with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: e [email protected] US. He uses his expertise to train the next generation of official statisticians, as well as pur- w http://bulletin.imstat.org suing his research interests which also inform his work directing a national statistical office. https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI Contact the IMS regarding your dues, Peter Guttorp receives RSS Barnett Award membership, subscriptions, orders or The RSS Barnett Award is awarded to IMS Fellow Peter Guttorp change of address: for his sustained and excellent contribution to the field of envi- IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office ronmental statistics. Peter’s contributions span both advanced 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 methodological developments and their application to a range of USA environmental systems, including climate change, atmospherics and t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] geophysics. His work has influenced policy across environmental t +1 216 295 5661[international] sciences, and he was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on f +1 301 634 7099 Peter Guttorp Climate Change that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. e [email protected] Contact the IMS regarding any other RSS Research Prize awarded to Rajen Shah matter, including advertising, copyright The Research Prize is awarded to Rajen Shah, an outstanding young permission, offprint orders, copyright researcher who has developed ground-breaking methodology in transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows diverse fields: high-dimensional inference, interaction search and nominations and content of publications: goodness-of-fit tests. His work is at the frontiers of modern statisti- Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson cal methods and is characterized by innovative methodology, sharp IMS Business Office PO Box 22718, Beachwood analysis and practical relevance. Of specific note is Shah’s 2013 OH 44122, USA paper (co-written with Richard Samworth), “Variable selection with Rajen Shah t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] error control: Another look at Stability Selection,” which made t +1 216 295 5661[international] substantial improvements on an earlier idea of Peter Bühlmann and Nicolai Meinshausen. f +1 216 295 5661 e [email protected] Anton Wakolbinger and co-authors win 2017 Itô Prize Executive Committee The 2017 Itô Prize is won by Adrián González Casanova, Noemi Kurt, Anton Wakolbinger President: Jon Wellner and Linglong Yuan, for their paper entitled “An individual-based model for the Lenski [email protected] experiment, and the deceleration of the relative fitness” published in Stochastic Processes President-Elect: Alison Etheridge [email protected] and Their Applications. The Itô Prize honors the memory and celebrates the legacy of Past President: Richard Davis Professor Kiyosi Itô and his vast and seminal contributions to probability theory. It is [email protected] awarded every two years and recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of Treasurer: Zhengjun Zhang the theory or applications of stochastic processes over the corresponding period. The award [email protected] will be presented at the 39th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] (SPA), July 24–28, 2017, in Moscow, Russia, where the authors will give a plenary talk Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle (http://www.spa2017.org/). The paper is freely available to access until the end of 2017 via [email protected] ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030441491600020X. = access published papers online April/May . 2017 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Ed George and Tailen Hsing http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Tilmann Gneiting More Members’ News http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas IMS Elections 2017 Annals of Probability: Maria Eulalia Vares http://imstat.org/aop The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President and six places in the IMS http://projecteuclid.org/aop Annals of Applied Probability: Bálint Tóth Council. We introduced the candidates in the last issue. Voting is open now—https://secure. http://imstat.org/aap imstat.org/secure/vote2017/vote2017.asp—and you have until June 16 to decide. http://projecteuclid.org/aoap Statistical Science: Cun-Hui Zhang http://imstat.org/sts ISI Elected members http://projecteuclid.org/ss IMS Collections We congratulate the following new International Statistical Institute (ISI) Elected http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm Members, who were elected recently in ISI Membership Elections. Among those elected http://projecteuclid.org/imsc Sévérien Nkurunziza IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox in the first round of 2017 were: , University of Windsor, Canada, http://imstat.org/cup/ and Xiaojing Wang, University of Connecticut, USA. The final round of 2016 included: Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani IMS Co-sponsored Journals and , University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Publications USA; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, USA; Hideki Nagatsuka, Chuo Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci University, Japan; Sudhir Paul, University of Windsor, Canada; Vladimir Pozdnyakov, http://imstat.org/ejs http://projecteuclid.org/ejs University of Connecticut, USA; Niansheng Tang, Yunann University, PR China; and Electronic Journal of Probability: Brian Rider Rand Wilcox, University of Southern California, USA. http://ejp.ejpecp.org Electronic Communications in Probability: Sandrine Péché http://ecp.ejpecp.org WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE? Current Index to Statistics: George Styan In last issue’s XL-Files, Xiao-Li Meng set a