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National Academy Members Volume 43 • Issue 4 IMS Bulletin June/July 2014 National Academy Members CONTENTS US National Academy of Sciences elects new Members 1 IMS Elections 2014 and Foreign Associates The United States National Academy of Sciences announced on 2–3 Members’ News: Geoffrey Grimmett, Martin Hairer, H. April 29, 2014, the election of 84 new members, and 21 foreign Vincent Poor; Montserrat associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished Fuentes and continuing achievements in original research. Among those elected is IMS President and Fellow Bin Yu, 3 IMS Carver Award: Edward who is Chancellor’s Professor in the departments of statistics Waymire and of electrical engineering and computer science, at the 4 IMS-ASC Sydney meeting University of California, Berkeley. Also elected are IMS members Bin Yu 5 Vlada’s Point: The Workshop Emery N. Brown, Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Emmanuel J. 7 Obituary: Dennis Lindley Candès, Barnum-Simons Professor of Mathematics and Statistics 8 Student Puzzle Corner at Stanford University. 10 Report: Seminar on Those elected this year bring the total number of active mem- Stochastic Processes bers to 2,214 and the total number of foreign associates to 444. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with 11 IMS Travel Awards; citizenship outside the United States. StatProb; Kovalevsky Emery N Brown Lecture The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter 12 Treasurer’s Report signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes 14 Recent Papers: Statistical achievement in science by election to membership, and—with Science; Electronic Journal of the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, Statistics; Annales de l’Institut and National Research Council—provides science, technology, Henri Poincaré; New book and health policy advice to the federal government and other 16 Terence’s Stuff: Creativity in organizations. Statistics The full list of new NAS Members and Associates is at Emmanuel Candès 17 IMS meetings http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-29- 2014-NAS-Election.html 23 Other meetings 29 Employment Opportunities 31 International Calendar 35 Information for Advertisers www.imstat.org/elections IMS elections close on May 30, 2014. Read it online at Have you voted yet? http://bulletin.imstat.org IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 43 . Issue 4 Volume 43 • Issue 4 June/July 2014 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 The UK’s Royal Society has elected 60 new Fellows and Foreign Members, among whom are Contact information Geoffrey Grimmett, Martin Hairer and H. Vincent Poor. IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta Geoffrey Grimmett, an IMS Fellow and Council member, is Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter of Cambridge, and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. The Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Royal Society website says, “At a time of flowering of probabilistic Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham methods in all branches of mathematics, Geoffrey Grimmett is one of the broadest probabilists of his generation, and unquestionably a Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: leading figure in the subject on the world scene. He is particularly e [email protected] w http://bulletin.imstat.org recognised for his achievements in the rigorous theory of disordered Geoffrey Grimmett https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI physical systems. Especially influential is his work on and around percolation theory, the contact model for stochastic spatial epidemics, and the random-cluster Contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or model, a class that includes the Ising/Potts models of ferromagnetism. His monograph on change of address: percolation is a standard work in a core area of probability, and is widely cited. His breadth IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office within probability is emphasized by his important contributions to probabilistic combinator- 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A ics and probabilistic number theory.” Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA Martin Hairer is Regius Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Institute, University of Warwick. His research interests are stochastic t +1 216 295 5661[international] PDEs, stochastic analysis, functional analysis, and homogenization f +1 301 634 7099 theory. According to the Royal Society website, he“is one of the e [email protected] world’s foremost leaders in the field of stochastic partial differential equations in particular, and in stochastic analysis and stochastic Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright dynamics in general. By bringing new ideas to the subject he made fundamental advances in many important directions such as the study permission, offprint orders, copyright Martin Hairer transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows of variants of Hormander’s theorem, systematization of the construc- nominations and content of publications: tion of Lyapunov functions for stochastic systems, development of a general theory of ergod- Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson icity for non-Markovian systems, multiscale analysis techniques, theory of homogenization, IMS Business Office theory of path sampling and, most recently, theory of rough paths and the newly introduced PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA theory of regularity structures.” t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] H. Vincent Poor of Princeton University was elected a Foreign t +1 216 295 5661[international] Member of the Royal Society. At Princeton, Vince is Dean of the f +1 216 295 5661 School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Michael Henry e [email protected] Strater University Professor. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information Executive Committee theory, and their applications in wireless networks and related fields. President: Bin Yu Among his publications in these areas is the recent book Mechanisms [email protected] and Games for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (Cambridge University President-Elect: Erwin Bolthausen Vince Poor [email protected] Press, 2014). An IMS Fellow since 2001 and a former Guggenheim Past President: Hans R. Künsch Fellow, Vince is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National [email protected] Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK. Treasurer: Jean Opsomer [email protected] Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau Are you on Facebook? We are! Find [email protected] Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle IMS: search “IMSTATI” in Facebook [email protected] = access published papers online June/July . 2014 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Hall and Runze Li http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Stephen Fienberg IMS Members’ News http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Edward Waymire selected to receive Carver Medal Annals of Probability: Krzysztof Burdzy http://imstat.org/aop IMS Council has approved the nomination http://projecteuclid.org/aop of Edward Waymire for the 2014 Carver Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen http://imstat.org/aap Medal as recommended by the Committee http://projecteuclid.org/aoap to Select the Carver Award. The citation Statistical Science: Peter Green will read: “To Ed Waymire, for manifold http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss contributions to the IMS in many capacities IMS Collections and in particular for exceptional service to http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm the Annals of Applied Probability far beyond http://projecteuclid.org/imsc IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox his role as its editor.” http://imstat.org/cup/ Ed Waymire is Professor of Mathematics IMS Co-sponsored Journals and at Oregon State University, and an IMS Publications Fellow. Electronic Journal of Statistics: George Michailidis The Carver Medal was created by the http://imstat.org/ejs http://projecteuclid.org/ejs IMS in 2002 in honor of Harry C. Carver, Founding Editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability: Michel Ledoux Annals of Mathematical Statistics and one of the founders of the IMS. http://ejp.ejpecp.org The medal is for exceptional service specifically to the IMS and is Electronic Communications in Probability: open to any member of the IMS who has not previously been elected Anton Bovier http://ecp.ejpecp.org President. Current Index to Statistics: George Styan http://www.statindex.org log into members' area at imstat.org Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Researchers receive IJERPH Best Paper Award 2014 Thomas Lee What are the human health implications of climate change? There is by now a well established http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs log into members' area at imstat.org body of evidence about the direct effects of increasing temperature, for example, heat stroke. Statistics Surveys: Donald Richards But is that the full story? It is also possible that air pollution patterns may change as a result http://imstat.org/ss of the changing climate, especially ozone, whose production is stimulated by hot weather. http://projecteuclid.org/ssu Probability Surveys: Laurent Saloff-Coste In work started at the Statistical and
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