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Volume 49 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin September 2020 Call for 2021 JSM Proposals CONTENTS IMS Calls for Invited Session Proposals 1 JSM 2021 call for Invited The 2020 Virtual JSM may have just Session proposals finished, but thoughts are turning to next 2 Members’ news: Rina Foygel year’s meeting. Barber, Daniela Witten Starting from the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings, which will take place 3 Nominate for IMS Awards in Seattle from August 7–12, 2021, the 4 Members’ news: ASA Awards, IMS now requires half of our invited Emmanuel Candès; Nominate session allocation to be competitive, in IMS Special Lecturers odd-numbered years when the JSM is 5 ASA Fellows also the IMS Annual Meeting. 6 SSC Gold Medal: Paul our Gustafson; SSC lectures We need y 7 Schramm Lectures; Royal Society Awards; Ethel submission! Newbold Prize Invited sessions — which includes invited papers, panels, and posters — showcase some 8 Donors to IMS Funds of the most innovative, impactful, and cutting-edge work in our profession. Invited 10 Recent papers: Annals of paper sessions consist of 2–6 speakers and discussants reporting new discoveries or Probability, Annals of Applied advances in a common topic; invited panels include 3–6 panelists providing commen- Probability, ALEA, Probability tary, discussion, and engaging debate on a particular topic of contemporary interest; and Mathematical Statistics and invited posters consist of up to 40 electronic posters presented during the Opening 12 Obituaries: Willem van Zwet, Mixer. Anyone can propose a session, but someone from the program committee must Don Gaver, Yossi Yahav accept the proposal for it to be part of the invited program. Of particular interest are 13 Canadian Journal of Statistics sessions that appeal to diverse audiences and are closely related to the theme, which is calls for COVID-19 papers “Statistics, Data, and the Stories They Tell.” To have the best chance of receiving an 16 Treasurer’s Report 2019 invited session slot, you need to: • Have solid new work in an important field Meetings (including online) 19 • Know some of your competitors working in the same field 23 Employment Opportunities • Be willing to reach out to your competitors and forge a session with energy in it. To submit a session to be considered by the IMS at the 2021 JSM, please read the 24 Calendar of Meetings instructions and guidelines at https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2021/. Be sure to 27 Information for Advertisers check the IMS as your first choice of sponsor.Submissions are open now, and close September 8, 2020. Decisions are due October 9, 2020. The IMS Invited Session Chair is Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University (bodhi@ stat.columbia.edu). The overall 2021 JSM Program Chair is Nicole Lazar, University Read it online: of Georgia. Nicole has some advice and further information on choosing a topic in an imstat.org/news article at https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2020/08/01/invited-session-jsm-2021/. See you in Seattle next year! IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 49 . Issue 6 Volume 49 • Issue 6 September 2020 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 COPSS Presidents’ Award to Rina Foygel Barber Contact information The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) sponsors and presents the IMS Bulletin Editor: Tati Howell COPSS Presidents’ Award annually to a young member of the statistical community in [email protected] recognition of outstanding contributions Managing Editor: Bob Keener to the profession of statistics. The 2020 Contributing Editors: COPSS Presidents’ Award was announced Radu Craiu, Anirban DasGupta, Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstantopou- at the Virtual JSM to Rina Foygel Barber, los, Xiao-Li Meng, Regina Nuzzo, Kavita University of Chicago: “For fundamental Ramanan and Terry Speed contributions to statistical sparsity and selec- w https://imstat.org/news tive inference in high-dimensional problems, https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI for the creative and novel knockoff filter to https://twitter.com/InstMathStat cope with correlated coefficients, for contri- butions to compressed sensing, the jackknife, IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office and conformal predictive inference; for the Contact the IMS regarding your dues, encouragement and training of graduate and membership, subscriptions, orders or undergraduate students.” change of address: Rina, who is also this year’s IMS t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Tweedie Award winner, says her research t +1 216 295 2340[international] Rina Foygel Barber interests are in “developing and analyzing f +1 216 295 5661 estimation, inference, and optimization tools for structured high-dimensional data e [email protected] problems such as sparse regression, sparse nonparametric models, and low-rank models. I IMS Business Office work on developing methods for false discovery rate control in settings where we may have Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson under-sampled data or misspecified models, and for scalable optimization techniques for Contact the IMS regarding any other nonconvex problems. I also collaborate on modeling and optimization problems in image matter, including advertising, copyright reconstruction for medical imaging.” permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Daniela Witten selected for 2021 Leo Breiman Award nominations and content of publications: Daniela Witten, professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington, and t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics, has been selected to receive t +1 216 295 2340 [international] the ASA’s 2021 Leo Breiman Junior Award. The Breiman Award recognizes Daniela’s f +1 216 295 5661 outstanding contributions to statistical learning, computational e [email protected] statistics, and their practical applications. Daniela’s contributions to the field of statistical learning span Executive Committee methodology, theory, and application. Her research focuses on President: Susan Murphy developing principled statistical ways to make sense of complex [email protected] data sets, and in particular, high-dimensional data that is charac- President-Elect: Regina Liu terized by having more features than observations. She is also very [email protected] interested in developing practical approaches to allow scientists to Daniela Witten Past President: Xiao-Li Meng “safely” perform the types of analyses that they routinely conduct [email protected] on their data, but that are not allowable from a classical statistical perspective. She is also Treasurer: Zhengjun Zhang committed to the dissemination of key ideas in statistical machine learning to a broad [email protected] audience. She is a co-author of the textbook Introduction to Statistical Learning, originally Program Secretary: Ming Yuan [email protected] published in 2013; the second edition will be released soon. Executive Secretary: Edsel Peña As an award recipient, Witten will receive a monetary prize and a plaque, and is invited [email protected] to give an invited lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings to be held in Seattle in 2021. = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications September . 2020 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Ming Yuan, Richard Samworth https://imstat.org/aos https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Karen Kafadar https://imstat.org/aoas Nominate for IMS Awards https://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Amir Dembo https://imstat.org/aop Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. https://projecteuclid.org/aop Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. Nominations must be received by Annals of Applied Probability: Francois Delarue, Peter Friz February 1, 2021. Please visit https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/. https://imstat.org/aap https://projecteuclid.org/aoap A candidate for IMS Fellowship shall have demonstrated distinction in research in Statistical Science: Sonia Petrone statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit; or a candidate of https://imstat.org/sts well-established leadership whose contributions to the field of statistics or probability other https://projecteuclid.org/ss IMS Collections than original research shall be judged of equal value; or a candidate of well-established https://projecteuclid.org/imsc leadership in the application of statistics or probability, whose work has contributed greatly IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: Nancy Reid to the utility of and the appreciation of these areas. Candidates for fellowship should be https://www.imstat.org/journals-and- publications/ims-monographs/ members of IMS when nominated—Elyse Gustafson [email protected] can check this before you start. [See Philip Protter’s article in the Oct/Nov 2018 issue for some words of advice]. IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications The nomination deadline is January 31, 2021. See https://www.imstat.org/honored-ims- Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci fellows/nominations-for-ims-fellow/. https://imstat.org/ejs https://projecteuclid.org/ejs Early-Career Awards Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Kyprianou https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp Peter Hall (1951–2016) played a significant role throughout his professional career in Electronic Communications in Probability: mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. With funds Giambattista Giacomin https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp donated by