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Volume 40 • Issue 4 IMS Bulletin June/July 2011 Fellows Elected to National Academies Contents The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 72 new members 1 NAS Elections: Geman, and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries, in Poor recognition of their distinguished and continu- 2 Members’ News: Laurent ing achievements in original research. Among Saloff-Coste, Michael Jordan, them are two IMS Fellows, Stuart Geman and Ross Leadbetter, Dimitris H. Vincent Poor. Politis, Yuval Peres; World Stuart Geman is the James Manning Congress plenary speakers Professor of Applied Mathematics in the 4 IMS Fellows division of applied mathematics at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. He graduated 6–7 Medallion Lectures: Alice Guionnet, Jianqing Fan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, having completed his thesis on Obituary: Benoît 8 stochastic differential equations with smooth Mandelbrot mixing processes. His advisors were Herman 9 NISS News Chernoff and Frank Kozin. Professor Geman’s current research focuses on the mathematical 10 Laha Awards Stuart Geman formulation for compositionality, and the 11 Calls & nominations implications of this formulation for interpret- 12 Japanese earthquake ing neural activity patterns and for building 14 Terence’s Stuff: computer vision systems. Interdisciplinary statistics At Princeton, Vince Poor is Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, 15 IMS meetings and the Michael Henry Strater University 20 Other meetings Professor. His research interests are in the areas 22 Employment Opportunities of statistical signal processing, stochastic analy- sis and information theory, and their applica- 23 International Calendar of tions in wireless networks and related fields. Statistical Events Among his publications in these areas are the 27 Information for Advertisers recent books Quickest Detection (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Information Theoretic Security (Now Publishers, 2009). An IMS Fellow since 2001, Vince is also a member Vince Poor of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Engineering of the U. K. Other recognition of his work includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, the 2005 IEEE Education Medal, the 2010 IET Ambrose Fleming Medal, the 2011 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, awarded in June 2011. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 40 . Issue 4 Volume 40 • Issue 4 June/July 2011 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Contact information American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Members IMS Bulletin Editor: Dimitris Politis Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, Assistant Editor: Tati Howell business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Anirban elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. DasGupta, Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Michael I. Jordan Terry Speed Among them are two IMS Fellows, (Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Professor of Computer Science To contact the IMS Bulletin: and Professor of Statistics, at University of California, Berkeley) IMS Bulletin Laurent Saloff-Coste and Laurent Saloff-Coste (Professor of Mathematics at Cornell 2 Lampern View, Uley, Dursley GL11 5TD University). UK The 212 new members join one of the nation’s most prestigious e [email protected] honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to Academy studies of science and To contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or technology policy, global security, social policy and American insti- change of address: tutions, the humanities, and education. IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office “It is a privilege to honor these men and women for their 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Michael I. Jordan Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 extraordinary individual accomplishments,” said Leslie Berlowitz, USA Academy President and William T. Golden Chair. “The knowledge and expertise of our t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] members give the Academy a unique capacity—and responsibility—to provide practical t +1 216 295 5661[international] policy solutions to the pressing challenges of the day. We look forward to engaging our new f +1 301 634 7099 members in this work.” e [email protected] Among the 2011 class are winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Pritzker Prizes; the Turing To contact the IMS regarding any other Award; MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; and Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy, matter, including advertising, copyright Golden Globe, and Academy awards. permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson Harry C Carver Medal Dimitris Politis IMS Business Office The 2011 IMS Guggenheim Fellow PO Box 22718, Beachwood Carver Medal In its 2011 comp- OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] is awarded to etition for the t +1 216 295 5661[international] Professor Ross US and Canada f +1 216 295 5661 Leadbetter, the John Simon e [email protected] Department of Guggenheim Statistics and Memorial Executive Committee Operations Research, Foundation has President: Peter Hall University of North awarded 180 [email protected] Carolina, “For his Fellowships to President-Elect: Ruth Williams [email protected] contributions to the artists, scientists, Past President: J. Michael Steele success of the 1994 and scholars, chosen [email protected] Third World Congress from some 3,000 Treasurer: Jean Opsomer at North Carolina, applicants. Only [email protected] for his service on the one fellowship was Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] IMS Council, and for awarded in statistics, Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp his editorial work.” to our editor, [email protected] Dimitris Politis. IMS Editors June/July . 2011 IMs Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Bühlmann and Tony Cai http://imstat.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen IMS Meeting news Fienberg, Michael Stein, Karen Kafadar & Samuel Kou http://imstat.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni World-class speakers for World Congress http://imstat.org/aop An impressive lineup of plenary speakers has been selected for next year’s IMS Annual Annals of Applied Probability: Andrew Barbour Meeting, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which will be held in http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: Jon Wellner Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9 to 14, 2012. http://imstat.org/sts Next year’s IMS Special Invited Lectures are the Wald Lectures, the Le Cam lecture, IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series and eight Medallion Lectures, five of which will be at the World Congress. The Wald http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections Lectures will be given by Steffen Lauritzen, University of Oxford, and the Le Cam lecturer http://imstat.org/publications/ is Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud. The World Congress Medallion lecturers are imscollections.htm Sourav Chatterjee, University of California, Berkeley; Franco Flandoli, Università di Pisa; NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm Nicole El Karoui, École Polytechnique; Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI; and Van Vu, Rutgers University. IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications [The other three 2012 Medallion lectures will be delivered at JSM in San Diego, by Electronic Journal of Statistics: David Ruppert Yoav Benjamini, Emmanuel Candes and Don Geman.] http://imstat.org/ejs The Tukey Lecturer is chosen every four years by the Bernoulli Society Subcommittee Electronic Journal of Probability: Bálint Tóth http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp on Named Lectures for the World Congress; it is one of the highest academic honours Electronic Communications in Probability: bestowed by the Bernoulli Society. Next year’s Tukey lecturer is Bin Yu, Chancellor’s Timo Seppäläinen Professor of Statistics and EECS and Chair of Statistics at Berkeley. http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp /ECP/index.php Maria Eulália Vares The other Bernoulli Society lectures are the Lévy lecture, by , Current Index to Statistics: George Styan Brazilian Center for Research in Physics; the Laplace lecture, by Anestis Antoniadis, http://www.statindex.org University Joseph Fourier; the Bernoulli lecture, by Peter Green, University of Bristol; and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Richard Levine the Kolmogorov lecture, by Stas Smirnov, Université de Genève. There will also be a public http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs lecture from Peter Diggle, Lancaster University. “.” Statistics Surveys: Lutz Dümbgen Keep an eye on the Congress website for updates: http://www.worldcong2012.org/ http://imstat.org/ss Probability Surveys: Geoffrey Grimmett http://imstat.org/ps Yuval Peres receives MAA Robbins Award IMS Supported Journals Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B): Alice Guionnet The Mathematical Association of America’s David P. Robbins Prize in Algebra, http://imstat.org/aihp Combinatorics, and Discrete Mathematics has been awarded to IMS Fellow Yuval Peres Bayesian Analysis: Herbie Lee and his co-authors for two papers published in American Mathematical Monthly. Yuval http://ba.stat.cmu.edu Bernoulli: Richard Davis received the $5000 prize on behalf of the http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli group