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Volume 43 • Issue 2 IMS Bulletin March 2014 New Researchers Conference The 16th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the CONTENTS auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation 1 New Researchers (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and other federal agencies and industry Conference sponsors. This year the conference is hosted by the Department of Statistics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and will be held July 31–August 2. As is cus- 2–3 Members’ News: Susan tomary, the New Researchers Conference will take place immediately before, and in the Holmes; C R Rao; Klaus vicinity of, the Joint Statistical Meetings, which this year is in downtown Boston, a few Krickeberg; Jim Pitman; Peter miles away, from August 2–7. Hall The purpose of the New Researchers Conference is to promote interaction and net- 4 Robert Adler: TOPOS, and working among new researchers in probability and statistics. Any young researcher who why you should care about it has received a PhD on or after 2009, or expects to defend his or her thesis by the end of 6 Brazilian Journal of 2014, is eligible to attend. Due to limited space, participation is by invitation only. Probability and Statistics; Confirmed participants include Edo Airoldi, Stephen Fienberg, Peter Hall, Michael Child care Jordan, Alan Karr, Jun Liu, Xiao-Li Meng, Susan Murphy, Giovanni Parmigiani, Donald 7 Student Puzzle Corner Rubin, Steven Scott and Bin Yu. More information may be found at the NRC website, http://www.stat.harvard.edu/ 9 Vlada’s Point: The Introduction NRC2014/ including a link to the application information page. The application deadline is March 24, 2014. Applicants who are accepted will receive information on meeting Project Euclid website 10 location and housing. Higher priority will be given to first-time applicants. Women and 11 Recent Papers: Bernoulli, minorities are encouraged to apply. Contingent on the availability of funds, financial sup- Statistics Surveys port for travel and accommodation may be provided. However, participants are strongly 12 Recent Papers: Electronic encouraged to seek partial funding from other sources. Journal of Probability; If you have questions about the NRC, please visit the website or contact the organizers Electronic Communications in e [email protected] Probability The 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2014/( ) will 13 Terence’s Stuff: Give be held August 2–7, Industry a Chance 2014, at the Boston The statue of John Harvard at Harvard Convention and University, known as the ‘Statue of the 14 Obituary: Marc Yor Three Lies’—though this is itself disputed: Exhibition Center, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_ 15 IMS meetings 415 Summer Street, Harvard_(statue) 20 Other meetings Boston, MA 02210. If you have sub- 26 Employment Opportunities mitted an abstract 28 International Calendar for JSM, you will be 31 Information for Advertisers able to edit it online between March 31 and April 17. JSM registration Read it online at and housing reserva- http://bulletin.imstat.org tions open May 1. Gobetz / Flikr Wally Photo: IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 43 . Issue 2 Volume 43 • Issue 2 March 2014 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Susan Holmes receives $6.2M NIH Transformative Research Award Contact information Susan Holmes, Professor of Statistics at Stanford University and IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta director of the Mathematical and Computational Science Program, Assistant Editor: Tati Howell has received a substantial NIH award. Together with David Relman, Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter MD, she received a Transformative Research Award from the US Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris National Institutes of Health on September 30, 2013. “These awards Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham recognize and support the kind of creative thinking that has put Stanford on the map as the epicenter of innovation,” said Lloyd Susan Holmes Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: Minor, MD, dean of the School of Medicine. 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