IMS Bulletin 31(4)

Volume 31 Issue 4 IMS Bulletin

July/August 2002 President Bush Honors Rao

CONTENTS

1 C R Rao receives Medal of Science

2 Contacting IMS; Members’ News

4 Profile: Bruce Trumbo & the Carver Medal

7 New IMS Fellows

8 New IMS President- Elect & Council Photo courtesy of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation: Medals Foundation: Technology courtesy& Science Photo of the National www.nationalmedals.org Letters to the Editor 9 IMS past president Calyampudi R Rao, combinatorial arrangements, known as 10 Obituaries: Emeritus Holder of the Eberly Family Orthogonal Arrays, which has become K S Banerjee, Indra Chair in Statistics, and Director of widely used to control and improve Chakravarti, Nathan the Center for Multivariate Analysis, the quality of manufactured goods. He Mantel Pennsylvania State U, received the Medal developed estimation theory in small 12 IMS Meetings of Science from President Bush in a samples, which greatly extended the scope ceremony at the White House in June. of statistical methods in practical work. 15 News, Announcements and Meetings around He is one of only fifteen scientists to Rao was the first to introduce differential the world receive America’s highest scientific honor geometric techniques in discussing this year, and the only statistician. problems of statistical inference, based on Employment 19 His citation read: C R Rao’s pioneering Rao’s Distance Function, which is now an Opportunities work in multivariate analysis has become active field of research. 24 International Calendar the foundation of statistics, with a President Bush said, “e science and of Statistical Events significant impact on applications in technology leaders here today have turned 27 Information for medical diagnosis, evolutionary genetics, genius and persistence into knowledge, Advertisers and signal detection theory. Rao has technology that will shape lives for focused equally on the application decades to come. All of our honorees, and of statistical methods to real-world their colleagues throughout the United problems. One of his early books, States, are asking questions whose answers Advanced Statistical Methods in Biometric will improve lives not only here at home, Research (1952), was written to assist but around the world.” biomedical researchers who were not We extend our warm congratulations to equipped to develop the new methods of C R Rao. analysis their data demanded. In response A full account of the ceremony, by to the needs of industry, he introduced a Annemarie Mountz, is at www.psu.edu/ new method of experimentation through ur/extra/2002/rao/main.html IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 Volume 31, Issue 4 July/August 2002 News from IMS members ISSN 0146-3942 Nobel Laureate James Heckman Receives ASA Honor e Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected James J. Heckman to receive the annual Statistician of the Year award on June , . Professor Contact Heckman, a member of IMS, is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Information Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since . He holds a parallel appointment as Director of Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of To contact the IMS Bulletin: Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman Professor Heckman earned his bachelor’s degree at Colorado College and his Master’s Assistant Editor Tati Howell and Doctorate degrees at Princeton University. He has received numerous honors for his Submissions in MS Word or plain research, including the Nobel Prize in  for his development of theory and methods for text, please. analyzing selective samples. Send by email: [email protected] Professor Heckman’s research combines both methodological and empirical interests or mail disk to: IMS Bulletin in evaluating the impact of social programs on the economy and on society. He has PO Box 1986 written on the impact of civil rights, affirmative action, labor supply and human capital Bristol accumulation, the impact of job training on earnings and employment, the impact of BS99 1TL unions on labor markets in developing countries, and on skill certification programs. He UK has also contributed substantially to literature in applied and theoretical econometrics. His methodological work on selection bias and on the evaluation of social programs is widely To contact the IMS regarding your dues, used, as is his research on the analysis of heterogeneity in consumer preferences and in the membership, subscriptions, orders or analysis of longitudinal data. He has a series of influential papers on the identifiability of change of address: broad classes of econometric models. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Dues and Subscriptions Office David O Siegmund elected to National Academy of Sciences 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2310 David O Siegmund, professor of statistics at Stanford University Bethesda, and IMS past President (-) has been elected to the National MD 20814-3998 Academy of Sciences (NAS). He is among  new members and  USA foreign associates selected in recognition of their distinguished and t 301.530.7029 f 301.571.5728 continuing achievements in original research. e [email protected] David works at the interface between probability and statistics. He has presented elegant solutions to several difficult problems in probability theory that are of interest to applied statisticians. ese To contact the IMS regarding any other mainly concern sequential analysis—the study of how data should matter, including advertising, copyright be accumulated in an experimental situation. He pioneered the permission, offprint orders, copyright development of methods that are used in the analysis of sequential clinical trials, allowing transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows pharmaceutical investigators to assess, for instance, if a new medicinal treatment is better nominations and content of publications: or worse than an old one, and if the results warrant stopping an FDA Phase III clinical Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson trial. His recent work has focused on different problems in statistical genetics, especially IMS Business Office PO Box 22718 genetic mapping, or identifying the locations of genes that are involved in specific traits. Beachwood, He employs similar methods to aid the analysis of sequences of amino acids that make OH 44122 up proteins. David earned a doctorate from Columbia University in  and served on USA the Columbia faculty until , with a brief stint at Stanford from  to . He t 216.295.2340 has worked at Stanford since accepting a full professorship in . Author of two books f 216.921.6703 on sequential analysis, David has been recipient of Guggenheim, Einstein and Fulbright e [email protected] fellowships, the Humboldt Prize, the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Wilks Medal of the American Statistical Association. July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 3 Executive Committee President Iain Johnstone Terry Lyons elected FRS [email protected] Professor Terence John Lyons, Wallis Professor of President-Elect Raghu Varadhan [email protected] Mathematics, University of Oxford, and a member of IMS, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Past President Bernard Silverman [email protected] one of only four mathematicians to be elected FRS this year. Peter Hall writes, “Terry’s deep insight and breadth of Executive Secretary Alicia Carriquiry vision have allowed him to sharpen and extend probability [email protected] theory and potential theory in several fundamental ways. Treasurer Julia Norton He has made a range of major contributions on either side [email protected] of the frontier between analysis and probability theory, but Program Sec. Susan Murphy his development of a stochastic calculus for rough signals [email protected] is of particular significance. His technology came as quite a surprise to other workers in the field, and represents a sea change in methods for stochastic analysis. Relative to IMS Editors conventional techniques, Terry’s approach is more direct but also more demanding, more The Annals of Statistics powerful but in important ways more transparent. It offers new opportunities for tackling Jon Wellner [email protected] previously intractable problems.” & John Marden [email protected] Statistical Society of Canada Honors IMS Members The Annals of Probability Dr Muni Srivastava, an IMS Member, has been awarded the  Statistical Society Thomas Kurtz of Canada Gold Medal. e medal is awarded to “a person who has made substantial [email protected] contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in The Annals of Applied Probability applied work”. e SSC Gold Medal is intended to honor current leaders in their fields. Søren Asmussen e SSC has also honored another IMS member: Dr Jonathan Taylor has received [email protected] the  Pierre Robillard Award. is award recognizes his thesis, “Euler Characteristics Statistical Science of Gaussian Fields on Manifolds”, as the best doctoral thesis in statistics defended at George Casella [email protected] a Canadian university in : his supervisor was Professor Keith Worsley of McGill University. Jonathan is currently an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series Joel Greenhouse e Award is in honour of Pierre Robillard, a very talented and dynamic young [email protected] statistician, whose untimely death in  cut short what promised to be a brilliant and Managing Editor - Statistics distinguished career in his chosen profession. Paul Shaman [email protected] Dietrich Stoyan Michael P. Cohen of Freiburg University of has been elected Managing Editor - Probability Mining and Technology, Germany, has been President of the Washington Academy of Michael Phelan elected a Member of the Leopoldina, the Sciences. He will serve as President-Elect [email protected] oldest German scientific society, which has until May  and then as President from Electronic Journal of Probability just celebrated its th anniversary. He was May  to May . e Washington Richard Bass elected for his work in applied probability. Academy of Sciences, which is over  [email protected] Dietrich has published widely in areas years old, is the local Washington DC Electronic Communication in Probability such as astronomy, forestry, statistics, affiliate of the American Association for Wilifrid Kendall [email protected] mathematics, mining, geology, mechanics, the Advancement of Science and is the physics, botany, ecology, and has worked publisher of the Journal of the Washington Managing Editor - EJP/ECP Davar Khoshnevisan in queueing theory, in stochastic geometry Academy of Sciences. Michael is the [email protected] and in spatial statistics. e New York Times Assistant Director for Survey Programs of Web Editor Susan Holmes recently ran an article about Dietrich’s the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in [email protected] investigations into the mixing process of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Associate Program Secretary Euro coins; more information is on his Steven Lalley homepage www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/ [email protected] stoyan. 4 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 5 Profile: Bruce Trumbo, Carver Award Recipient Julia Norton, IMS Treasurer, outlines the career of her colleague Bruce Trumbo, Professor of Statistics at California State U, Hayward. The Carver Award itself features on page 6

Chemistry with a goal of becoming a courses from Lawrence Graves, Saunders chemical engineer. However, two summer Mac Lane, and Antony Zugmund. His internships working in an industrial thesis was titled: “Weak Convergence of chemical laboratory spurred interest in Conditional Probability Measures in a a “less messy and smelly” career. In his Metric Space.” junior year, he changed his major to From  to  Bruce taught Mathematics, graduating with an AB in engineering statistics and many sections  in Mathematics and Chemistry. His of pre-calculus mathematics at San Jose elective courses included group theory State University (then San Jose State and basic probability, but no statistics. College). He reports, “I had always A third summer internship involved seen myself more as a teacher than as “brave attempts at sales a researcher, but the SJS forecasting” using self- He explored courses were unexciting taught multiple regression. and there was very little At that time, backward California from the tolerance there for any elimination for  predictor “beach at Santa Cruz kind of innovation. I As a graduate student in 1974 and variables required a - to Yosemite, doing explored California from seeking employment in the San Francisco mile trip with a deck of the beach at Santa Cruz to “very little Bay area, Fred Mosteller sent me to IBM cards in the trunk of Yosemite National Park, visit Lincoln Moses, Helena Cramer, the company car for access work” on an doing very little work on Patrick Suppes, Ingram Olkin, and Bruce to an IBM , which unfinished an unfinished thesis.” Trumbo. At that time I knew all of these did the job in about half thesis. In -, at Stanford’s folks by reputation or publication except an hour. “e estimated Departments of Statistics Trumbo. us, I wondered what Bruce running time on our and Preventive Medicine, Trumbo had done to place himself on company’s computer was  week, but the he” worked on Lincoln Moses’ NIH Professor Mosteller’s “people to see” list. computer was needed for accounting and Training grant; besides finishing his Twenty-eight years later, I no longer payroll, and it had never been known to thesis, this included statistical consulting wonder. In ever widening circles one run for an entire week without service to for medical researchers. Also in the mid- can see the effects of his devotion to replace tubes.” s, he did some statistical consulting our Department of Statistics, its faculty, In his senior year at Knox, Bruce was with Richard Post and George Roussas students, and alumni; our university awarded a Woodrow Wilson National for NASA, mainly in human factors (California State University, Hayward); Fellowship for graduate study. Not experiments in preparation for early space the field of statistics statewide, nationally, venturing far from Springfield, he left for flights. and internationally; and the advancement the University of Chicago, earning his In , George J. Resnikoff hired of science, especially through statistics. SM in  and a PhD in . Bruce Bruce as an Assistant Professor at Born in , Bruce grew up in arrived knowing some probability but California State University, Hayward Springfield, Illinois, graduated from very little statistics. He took introductory in the Department of Statistics. ey Springfield High School in , and statistics courses from K.A. Brownlee, had met years earlier while attending went on to Knox College, in Galesburg, William Kruskal, Paul Meier, and David seminars at the University of Chicago IL. At Knox College, he knew Marcia Wallace and soon developed a strong when Resnikoff was Department Chair Muelder (now married to Joe Eaton); her interest. He took probability and measure of Statistics at the Illinois Institute of father Hermann was then the Dean of theory from Patrick Billingsley (his thesis Technology. George had started the the College. Bruce’s original major was advisor) and Paul Halmos; and math CSUH Statistics Department the previous 4 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 5

year. Bruce says, “Hiring procedures were fostering of program director positions— involved in the Current Index to Statistics less formal in those days and George was with some resistance from the Old Boy (CIS). Bruce had served part of a term on famous for getting to the point without Network—for Nancy Flournoy and Yash the management committee when it was formalities.” e job interview took place Mittal (“who were neither old nor boys”). time for Shanti to retire as chair. “Shanti during a chance meeting in the parking Ingram approached put my name forward to be area in front of the old Sequoia Hall at Bruce in  to run for Summarizing his successor as chair. is Stanford in winter . An approximate IMS Treasurer. He was was clearly going to be a unabridged conversation went something about to become IMS Bruce’s career time of change for CIS. We like this: president and, along “requires tiny type were getting increasingly GR: “Are you determined to go back to with Morris DeGroot, to reduce his insistent requests for access San Jose next year where you’ll teach one had an idea to start to CIS info in digital form. resumé to just statistics course in a math department, or Statistical Science (not Leo Breiman and Bill Eddy would you like to come and help me start yet named) as a way to two pages were two of the loudest a new statistics department at Hayward?” attract more interest and voices for this. Eventually, BT: “Hayward sounds interesting.” membership for IMS. ” I appointed myself as GR: “en you’re hired. I’ll send you Bruce says, “At the time IMS budget database editor and put out a preliminary some forms. Oh, and you’ll have to drive planning consisted of multiplying each electronic version of CIS. Besides the over and meet the president.” line in one year’s budget by . to get master, there were only four copies of the On the IMS, Bruce reports, “It seemed the next one, a system that worked just first edition of the database. ey were that during my early years at Hayward fine at steady state. But Ingram wasn’t tried out at Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, George was a perpetual IMS officer of interested in steady state. His thinking and Carnegie Mellon. Some were some sort, secretary and then treasurer. was that IMS couldn’t start a new journal afraid that the electronic version might For a few years the IMS business office without a thorough overhaul of its immediately kill off the paper volumes was housed in a trailer located in the financial structure. is was a shorter and CIS would go broke. Instead the parking lot of the Science Building at conversation. I thought it was a great markets for the two media turned out to CSU Hayward, then it moved to larger idea and I was familiar enough with be almost orthogonal, and we doubled quarters in an industrial park in Hayward the IMS business office to know he was our revenue over the first few years. near the Bay.” right about the financial arrangements. Shanti, Ingram, and board members Bruce credits Ingram Olkin as being e new journal was a hard sell to the Barbara Ryan (Minitab) and Roy Milton responsible for talking him into most Council. A few years before the Annals (NIH) were especially helpful with ideas of the interesting and useful things he of Mathematical Statistics had split into for solving the political, financial, and did outside of CSU Hayward. “First, the Annals of Statistics and the Annals of technical problems that surrounded he approached me in  to ask me to Probability. Especially the probabilists the start of electronic CIS. Since then, apply for a -year term as the first NSF were reluctant to destroy the parity by electronic CIS has gone from floppy disks program director for statistics in the starting a new journal that would likely to CD-ROM to the internet. Some major Division of Mathematical Sciences. I had have more statistics than probability. players since I stopped being chair have just bought a new house and the idea As it turned out, the financial overhaul been Doug Bates, Ron isted, and Alan of moving  miles away to become that led to Statistical Science also made it Zaslavsky.” a government bureaucrat for a year was possible later to start yet another journal, Meantime at Hayward, Bruce with not instantly appealing. is was another the Annals of Applied Probability. Very George Resnikoff and Heebok Park Stanford parking lot conversation, but graciously, the probabilists who had (also from the University of Chicago) not nearly as brief as the one where I got most criticized the financial plan to start developed bachelors and masters degree hired at Hayward. It was clear that the Statistical Science later told me it turned programs. ey hired many new PhDs, conversation was not going to end before out to be the greatest thing that ever some of whom have moved on to other I promised to give the NSF job serious happened for probability in the IMS.” adventures, including Tar Chen from consideration.” A very positive outcome In the late s, Shanti Gupta was Carnegie Mellon, Richard Stanley from of his several stays at NSF include the responsible for getting Bruce deeply Continued overleaf 6 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 7

Profile: Bruce Trumbo, Carver Awardee Continued from previous page The Carver Award

Columbia, Dick Drogin and Richard The IMS established the Kakigi from UC Berkeley, and Minja Carver Award at last Paik from Stanford. Among those remaining at Hayward are Dean Fearn year’s Annual Meeting from UC Davis, Mike Orkin from UC in Atlanta, Georgia, Berkeley, Elliott Nebenzahl from the in order to recog- University of Minnesota, Julia Norton nize members who from Harvard, and, recently, Eric Suess from UC Davis. Besides the over three have provided out- hundred graduates from our programs standing service to who work as statisticians in industry, the society and the Bruce has been involved in mentoring most of our graduates who have gone profession. on to doctoral programs in statistics and Bruce Trumbo, profiled other fields. Roughly in order of their graduation from our M.S. program, these here, was chosen by a Ph.D.s include: Wes Johnson, Calvin committee of past IMS presi- Chun, Barbara Warsavage, Paul Williams, dents after an international call for nominations. His Jennifer Wolch, George Watson, eresa citation reads: Nyachota, Mike LuValle, Lynn Eudey, Jim Bethel, Ann Olmstead, Jim Pedrick, “For his extraordinary dedication to IMS and the wider John Egenolf, Ray Dezzani, Robert ompson, Randy Villa, Eric Suess, statistical profession; for his service as Treasurer, in Chang Yong Song, Jason Stover, Brian particular for financial planning for the introduction Munneke, Rob Pfefferly, and Louis of the journal Statistical Science; for his efforts in the Villanueva. Current graduates who are development of electronic publications; for his role students in doctoral programs include: Adam Branscum, Newton Wai, and as editor of the electronic version of Current Index to uan Nguyen at UC Davis; Chris Fraser Statistics; and for his service to the IMS on innumerable at Purdue; Tom Gwise at U of Virginia; committees and in the business office.” Tanzy Love at Iowa State; and Chris Wong at UC Santa Cruz. The Carver Award memorializes Professor Harry C Summarizing Bruce’s contributions to Carver, of the University of Michigan, who founded in the University, to the statistics societies, and to their publications required using 1930 a new mathematically-oriented statistics journal, tiny type to reduce his resumé to just the The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Five years later this led front and back of a page! ‘Service’ indeed to the establishment of the IMS as the sponsoring summarizes his contributions to all of organisation for the new journal, and the societal these areas. I am very pleased to be his colleague. home for researchers in mathematical statistics. The Julia Norton rest, of course, is history... 6 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 7

New IMS Fellows

e following IMS members, listed in alphabetical order, are announced as  new Fellows. Congratulations to you all!

Arup Bose, Purdue University. information theory, statistical physics, and breaking research in selection and ranking; For outstanding and wide ranging bio-molecular sequence analysis, and for authoritative books; exemplary editorial contributions to asymptotics, especially contributions to the study of exceptional service; innovative teaching and advising; the bootstrap, and sequential analysis, and points in Brownian motion. and exceptional dedication to preserve and dedicated service to the profession. celebrate statistical history through films Xuming He, University of Illinois, Urbana- and scientific interviews. Ngai Hang Chan, Chinese University of Champaign. Hong Kong. For fundamental contributions to the Yakov Nikitin, St. Petersburg University. For path breaking contributions to theory and practice of statistics in a For fundamental contributions to statistical the study of unstable time series, for number of areas, including robust statistics, theory and asymptotic techniques of applications of time series to economics regression quantiles, data smoothing, nonparametric statistics; outstanding service and finance, and for the development of data depth, and the MCMC bootstrap; as a teacher of statistics in St. Petersburg, as the statistical programs in computational consulting in government and industry, an editor and organizer. finance and risk management. including directing the Illinois Statistics Office; excellent teaching and mentoring Marepalli Bhaskara Rao, North Dakota Xiru Chen, China University of Science and of young researchers; and service to State University. Technology. the profession in editorial and other For contributions to probability theory For fundamental contributions to organizational duties in abstract spaces; research on bilinear asymptotic theory in linear models, U- time series models, survival analysis and statistics, robust and density estimation, Tailen Hsing, Texas A & M University. multivariate dependence; and creative and leadership for statistical research in China, For fundamental contributions to the effective teaching at all levels. dedicated editorial and professional service theory of extreme value theory, geometric probability and dimension reduction. Yi-Ching Yao, Academia Sinica. Dorota M. Dabrowska, University of For his path-breaking contributions to California, Los Angeles. Robert Kohn, Australian Graduate School change-point problems and outstanding For outstanding research in modeling and of Management. work in sequential analysis, group testing, analysis of censored survival data, and For novel and influential contributions probabilistic methods in combinatorics and for seminal articles developing estimation to smoothing methods in statistics, time algorithms, and applied probability. methods for multivariate failure time data. series, computational algorithms and Bayesian statistics; substantial leadership to Victor J. Yohai, University of Buenos Aires. Angela Muriel Dean, Ohio State the profession, through training graduate For his novel, wide ranging and influential University. students and directing the work of one research in robust statistics, and for For outstanding contributions to research of Australia’s leading groups of academic leadership in the development of Statistics and education in the design and analysis of statisticians. in Latin America. experiments and service to the profession. Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Amir Dembo, Stanford University. Connecticut. For contributions to the theory of large For outstanding contribution in sequential deviations, for applications of the theory to analysis and multistage sampling; path- 8 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 9

New IMS President-Elect and David Ruppert Named Andrew Schultz, Jr. Danyu Lin Named 2002 Myrto Lefkopoulou Council Members: Result of Ballot Professor of Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Terry Speed, of the University of David Ruppert, Cornell U School of e Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Operations Research and Industrial School of Public Health, has named IMS California, Berkeley, Department Engineering, has been appointed to Fellow Danyu Lin, PhD, Dennis Gillings of Statistics, has been elected by the Andrew Schultz, Jr. Professorship Distinguished Professor at U of North IMS members as the new Presi- of Engineering. e endowed chair is Carolina School of Public Health, as the dent-elect. He will follow Raghu designated for a “leader in the application  Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished of both industrial and engineering Lecturer. Dr Lin will present a lecture on Varadhan. New Council mem- operations research approaches to problems ursday, September  at Harvard School bers are arising in manufacturing and service of Public Health, entitled “Selection and • Alan Karr organizations.” Assessment of Regression Models”. A David, an IMS Fellow, is known for reception will be held following the lecture. • J.S. Marron his contributions to generalized and e lectureship was established in • Per Mykland non-linear regression, robustness theory, perpetuity in memory of Dr Myrto • David Scott data transformation and weighting, Lefkopoulou, a faculty member and • Jane-Ling Wang non-parametric function estimation and graduate of Harvard School of Public measurement error modeling. His research Health. Dr Lefkopoulou tragically died The IMS Council Members for is at the boundary between deep theory and of cancer in  at the age of  after a 2001-2002 are: genuine applicability. He is also known for courageous two year battle. She was deeply Peter Bickel, Peter Donnelly, practical statistical solutions to challenging beloved by friends, students and faculty. problems as well as fundamental Each year the Myrto Lefkopoulou Wayne Fuller, Evarist Giné, Rob contributions through deep mathematical Lectureship is awarded to a promising Kass, Wilifrid Kendall, Thomas analysis, which prove the value of a statistician who has made contributions Liggett, Regina Liu, Peter McCul- suggested methodology. to either collaborative or methodologic lagh, John Rice, Bill Strawder- David Ruppert’s stature, research in the applications of statistical accomplishments, breadth, commitment, methods to biology or medicine and/or man, Jessica Utts, Wing Wong, professional vision and judgment and will has shown excellence in the teaching of Michael Woodroofe, and Bin Yu make him a distinguished holder of the biostatistics. Ordinarily, the lectureship is Schultz chair. given to a statistician within  years of Sidney Resnick receiving an earned doctorate. Cornell University Previous recipients of the Lefkopoulou Memorial Lectureship have been Brad Edward G Schilling Receives 2002 ASTM Award of Merit Carlin, Michael Boehnke, Ronald S. Dr Edward Schilling, professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute Brookmeyer, Steven N. Goodman, Trevor of Technology, is to receive the  ASTM Award of Merit, Hastie, Hans-Georg Mueller, Giovanni and the accompanying title of Fellow, for “his contributions to Parmigiani, Kathryn Roeder, and Louise developing sampling standards and more than  years of service Ryan. to ASTM Committee E on Quality and Statistics”. is is Nominations for next year’s lectureship the highest Society recognition for individual contributions to are welcome and should be sent to the standards activities. Myrto Lefkopoulou Lecture Committee, Edward is an expert in the field of acceptance sampling, and is Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School widely published in quality control and statistics. of Public Health,  Huntington Avenue, ASTM International, establishes in , is one of the largest Boston, MA . Nominations should standards development systems, with ASTM standards being used in research and include a letter of nomination and a C.V. development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions. e deadline for submission of nominations is March , . 8 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 9

Letters to the Editor Letters on any issue of interest to IMS members are welcome. Email your letters to the Editor at [email protected]. The Editor’s decision about whether to publish letters is final. Letters are submitted on the understanding that they may be edited before publication.

Waiting times “embarrassing” “Mathematics” vs “Statistics”? Dear Editor: Dear Editor: I could not agree more with the sentiments In his regular “Math Guy” feature on NPR’s Weekend Edition, on Saturday May , Keith expressed, and remedies proposed, by Devlin spoke about the role of “Bayesian mathematics” and “Bayesian mathematicians” in Professor Larry Wasserman [letter printed in homeland security. I happened to be listening so emailed this response to NPR, which was the March/April issue of the IMS Bulletin]. read on the air on Saturday May : e current system in place at most “Keith Devlin’s typically brilliant commentary about the role of mathematics in statistics journals cannot help but foster the homeland security repeatedly emphasized the role of “Bayesian mathematics” and attitude that statisticians have nothing to “Bayesian mathematicians” for updating prior threat assessments on the basis say that cannot wait another year. of the latest data in the most accurate manner possible. Unfortunately, however, An experience of my own makes the there are no such things as “Bayesian mathematicians” and “Bayesian mathematics” point. - the correct terms are “Bayesian statistics” and “Bayesian statisticians”. Statistics is I recently did some work with two a distinct discipline which combines techniques from mathematics, experimental electrical engineers. One had already had design, and computer science to utilize incomplete and uncertain data in an an article accepted (by an engineering optimally efficient manner. These techniques have been successfully applied to journal); a researcher elsewhere had problems as diverse as the first field trials of the Salk polio vaccine, the population obtained a preprint, written an article in sizes of endangered species, and the Census undercount. I hope that Keith will give response, and had it accepted. All this in Statistics and statisticians their due credit in his next commentary.” less than six months. I received a long and thoughtful reply directly from Keith, to which I also responded. He It was embarrassing to have to tell my said that he chose “mathematics” over “statistics” because the word “statistics” conjures co-workers that we will certainly wait six up lists of numbers to the layman, rather than the idea of a mathematical discipline. I months or longer for our own submission completely agree with him, and have renewed my campaign to rename our discipline on the subject—to a statistics journal “Statistical Science”. claiming to be one of the quicker ones—to Best wishes, receive even a first review. Professor Michael D. Perlman Experiences like this are not uncommon, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle and should be embarrassing to all in our profession. Sincerely, Professor Douglas P. Wiens Dept of Mathematical and Statistical Project Euclid URL Correction Sciences, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada In the May/June issue there was an article highlighting the new free electronic access to recent journals for IMS members. e URL for Project Euclid should have read http://projecteuclid.org. Check Portland State University, Portland, out what is available using your member ID (from your Oregon, is proud to announce to the IMS journal mailing label). statistics community that the former More information about Project Euclid and JSTOR is Department of Mathematical Sciences available on the IMS website at is now the Department of Mathematics www.imstat.org/publications/journals/access.phtml and Statistics. 10 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 11

Obituaries

weighing designs, factorial designs, and Kali Shankar Banerjee theory of index numbers, the areas in which he published widely, continue to have a Professor K S Banerjee, a veteran and Banerjee briefly visited Cornell University profound impact in statistics literature. distinguished Indian statistician and IMS (-) and Kansas State University As well as being an IMS Fellow, he Fellow, died on Tuesday, April ,  at (-, -), and then accepted a was Fellow of the American Statistical his Long Island, NY residence, aged . permanent position at the University of Association, Royal Statistical Society, Born in , Professor Banerjee received Delaware (-), holding the Rodney American Association of the Advancement his training in mathematics and statistics Sharp Chair Professorship. After retiring of Science, and an elected Fellow of the from the University of Calcutta, earning his from UD, Professor Banerjee joined the International Statistical Institute. Professor PhD in statistics in . His fundamental University of Maryland Baltimore County Banerjee will be missed by his colleagues work on weighing designs in  soon (UMBC) as a Visiting Professor, a position and admirers all over the world. brought him international acclaim. he held until his eventual retirement from Bimal K. Sinha After serving as a Deputy Director at academic work in . University of Maryland, Baltimore the West Bengal State Statistical Bureau in Professor Banerjee’s original contributions West Bengal, India from -, Professor in the areas of general linear models, Indra Mohan Chakravarti

Indra Mohan Chakravarti was born on April ,  in Nawabganj, Bengal, now a part of Bangladesh. He was one of the top ten of , students in the Calcutta University Matriculation Examination in . He was attracted to the newly created undergraduate Statistics Honors program in Calcutta’s Presidency College, where he distinguished himself by obtaining a first in both the BSc(Hons) and MSc degrees in Statistics. Indra began his research career at the Indian Statistical Institute, in , where he worked under the guidance of C R Rao, and received his PhD in . Between  and , he visited the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Indra came back to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall of , where from  he was Professor of Statistics. He continued to travel to Switzerland and France during his tenure at Chapel Hill. Indra’s research in the s was in the broad areas of: (i) sample surveys and finite population sampling, (ii) statistical inference and (iii) the design and analysis of experiments. In the late s, his association with Professor R C Bose was a turning point in his career. It reversed his interest in combinatorial mathematics, the design of experiments and error correcting codes. From the mid s onwards, Indra did his best work primarily in these areas, taking over from Bose as departmental expert on the latter’s retirement in . Between  and , Indra supervised fifteen PhDs, mostly in the area of combinatorial mathematics and design of experiments. He has nearly  publications in this area. He maintained his interest in scientific matters almost till the end of his life. He took a deep interest in the current emphasis on bioinformatics and genomics, and was planning to offer an advanced graduate level course in the coming Fall on the design and analysis of bioinformatics studies with feedback from classical combinatorics and the design of experiments. His death left that task unfulfilled. Indra is survived by his only son Xavier. His wife Monique died in . Prof G Kallianpur & Prof PK Sen Statistics Dept, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 10 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 11

Nathan Mantel

Nathan Mantel, whose groundbreaking entirely new body of methodology. Nathan’s work at the National Cancer Institute most striking attribute was his remarkable (NCI) brought new tools to medical insight, intuition and creativity in attacking research, died May  at home in Potomac, new problems. e theoretical basis for Maryland, aged . He was one of a some of his contributions were only handful of pioneering biostatisticians whose understood years after he proposed them.” contributions added new dimensions and Another Harvard professor, Marvin understanding to the field of epidemiology Zelen, who had worked with Mantel at and, in particular, cancer research. the NCI, said, “Nathan was a brilliant data Commenting on Nathan’s death, Mitchell analyst. He had a wonderful knack of being

Gail of NCI said, “He was one of the able to see though a complicated problem http://members.aol.com/savilon/nmantel from Photo greatest biostatisticians of the century: an very quickly and then make the equivalent Board, but the agency closed down and inspiration to younger statisticians and a of ‘back of the envelope’ calculations.” Mantel found himself without a job. valuable consultant to laboratory scientists Sam Greenhouse, another NCI pioneer In , Mantel, drawing unemploy- and epidemiologists.” Other colleagues said of biostatistics, wrote, “Among statisticians ment, was sent for a job interview at that he preferred to explain the problem the world over, we had probably the greatest the National Cancer Institute, and was and the solution in clearly understood artist of all—Nathan Mantel. No one quickly hired as the third member of a words rather than complex mathematical could match him in quickly identifying new statistical group. He published his first formulas. the information in the data related to the professional paper three years later. Many of the methods that he developed questions and the swiftness with which he A recipient of many professional have become common tools in medical was able to choose an optimum method of honors, after retiring from the National research, biostatistics and epidemiology. analysis. e statistical procedures which Cancer Institute in , Mantel served Among cancer researchers, he is most bear his name are really nothing compared as a research professor at e George famous for the development of his “Mantel- to his ability to analyze data.” Washington University and later at Haenszel Procedure”, which was originally Born in  to impoverished immigrant American University. He had been a visiting used to assess associations between an parents, Mantel grew up in New York and scientist at the New York University School environmental exposure and cancer risk. spent some of his adolescence in a Hebrew of Medicine and a visiting professor at His paper on this procedure, published Orphan Asylum. In later years he attributed the University of Tel-Aviv and a visiting in the Journal of the National Cancer part of his success to his innovative teachers professor in neuroepidemiology at Temple Institute in , is one of the most widely at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School. He University School of Medicine. He was also cited papers in medical literature, and graduated in  from City College, NY. a lecturer at the China National Center for has influenced the design and analysis of Twenty years later, already having published Preventive Medicine in Beijing. thousands of subsequent epidemiological a number of professional papers, he earned He is survived by his second wife, Helen studies. He also developed the most his MSc in statistics from American U in Frey Mantel, and their son David Albin commonly used method for comparing Washington. Mantel and stepdaughter Julie Phillips. survival rates. In addition, he devised In , after several low-level federal His first wife, Rhoda Seligson Mantel, methods to measure the safety of varying jobs, including working nights at the from whom he was divorced, died in doses of drugs, evaluate diagnostic tests, and Government Printing Office, Mantel . From that marriage he is survived assess exposure to radiation. was recruited into what became the War by his daughter Amy Mantel Hale and During his career Mantel published more Production Board, where his skills helped son Eli David Mantel. Another son of that than  professional papers. Professor increase the output of the nation’s factories. marriage, Jesse Marc Mantel, died in . James H. Ware of the Harvard School for Later in the war, part of his military service He is also survived by his youngest sister Public Health wrote, “e Mantel test for involved statistical analysis of medical Anne “Mutzi” Mantel Smith, and his six survival data, a method for comparing two research. At the end of the war he returned grandchildren. survival distributions, set the course of an to the successor to the War Production Amy Hale & Lauren Hale 12 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 13

IMS Meetings around the world Joint Statistical Meetings: JSM 2002

August 11-15, 2002, New York, NY Program now available online at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2002/onlineprogram/index.cfm

JSM2002 will be co-headquartered at Late Breaking Sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings: both the New York Hilton and Towers e Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) partner societies (IMS; American Statistical (1335 Avenue of the Americas, 53rd & Association; International Biometric Society, Eastern and Western North American 54th Streets) and Sheraton New York Regions; and Statistical Society of Canada) have now approved up to two additional Hotels (811 Seventh Avenue at 52nd session slots, on an as-needed basis, for special invited Late-Breaking Sessions to cover Street). More hotel and program infor- important topics that might emerge close in time to each JSM. mation is available on the JSM website e late breaking sessions will cover: Breaking the Promise after -: Confidentiality at www.amstat.org/meetings/ in the Age of Terrorism and Statistical Terminology, Census , and the Supreme jsm/2002/. Court: Lessons Learned from Utah v. Evans. Times and locations at the Hilton New York are: JSM2002: IMS Welcome Reception for New Tuesday, August : Session , : am-: pm, H-Mercury Ballroom Members, New Graduates and Students Wednesday, August : Session , : am-: pm, H-East Ballroom August 13, 5:15-6:45 pm, at Hudson’s Sports Bar, Sheraton New York, 811 THE H. K. NANDI LECTURES AT JSM2002, PRESENTED BY THE FRIENDS OF I.S.I. Seventh Avenue and 52nd Street. Sunday, August 11, 12:00-1:45 pm, in Meeting Room: H-Gramercy B All members who have joined the IMS Two expository lectures and discussions from distinguished researchers during the past two years, all IMS New The Friends of ISI (the Indian Statistical Institute) has arranged special H. K. Nandi Graduate members and all IMS Student Lectures to be held during the Joint Statistical Meetings in New York. members are encouraged to attend. Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Gainesville, is the organizer and chair, and will Appetizers and open bar will be available. open the session at 12:05 with some introductory remarks. J. K. Ghosh, Indian Sta- If you wish to join the IMS, please come tistical Institute and Purdue University, West Lafayette will talk on “Adaptive Sampling and by the reception and applications will be Empirical Bayes Analysis For Estimation of Localized Population Segments: Two Case Studies” from 12:15-12: available. Alternatively, you can join on- 50, then P K Sen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will talk on “Bioinformatics: line at www.imstat.org. RSVP for the Nonparametrics Perspectives and Controversies” from 12:50-1:25. There will then be a Floor Dis- welcome reception to [email protected]. cussion until the end of the session. Photos from last year’s Welcome For more information contact Sujay Datta [email protected] or Nitis Reception are on page . Mukhopadhyay [email protected]

JSM (the Joint Statistical Meetings) is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. It is held jointly with the American Statistical Association, The International Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR), IMS, and the Statistical Society of Canada. Attended by over 4000 people, activities of the meeting include oral presentations, panel sessions, poster presentations, continuing education courses, exhibit hall (with state-of-the-art statistical products and opportunities), a place- ment service, society and section business meetings, committee meetings, social activities, and networking opportunities. New York City is the host city for JSM 2002 and offers a wide range of possibilities for sharing time with friends and colleagues. For information, contact [email protected] or phone (703) 684-1221. 12 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 13

IMS Invited Paper Session at the Royal Statistical Society general meeting: IMS Sponsored Mini-meeting Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data The First Cape Cod Workshop on Monte Carlo 3-6 September 2002 Methods University of Plymouth, UK September 13-14, 2002, Cape Cod, MA www.tech.plym.ac.uk/maths/research/stats/RSStalks.html#microarray Organizer: Jun S Liu, Harvard U, Boston www.tech.plym.ac.uk/maths/research/stats/RSS2002.html http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/ Speakers: Jun Liu, Harvard U, Dept of Biostatistics, Jennifer Bryan, U of British ~junliu/workshop/index.html Columbia, Dept of Statistics and Institute of Biotechnology. IMS Organiser Mark van der Laan, Dept of Biostatistics and Statistics, U of California, Berkeley. Co-Sponsored Meeting New developments in biotechnology and the flood of biological data issuing from Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2003 genome projects have revolutionized the way biological and medical problems are defined, March 27-29, 2003, U of Washington, Seattle approached and ultimately solved. In this session statisticians working on these biological IMS Representative: Chris Burdzy, burdzy questions will discuss relevant theoretical background and statistical methods for the @math.washington.edu analysis of the high dimensional microarray data arising in these experiments. http://www.math.washington.edu/ ~burdzy/SSP2003/ IMS Sponsored Mini-Meeting: January 10-11, 2003 Sponsored/Numbered Meeting (280) University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. ENAR/IMS Eastern Regional Conference on Functional Data Analysis March 30-April 2, 2003, Tampa, Florida e Department of Statistics at the University of Florida will host its Fifth Annual Winter Program Chair: Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Workshop on January -,  in Gainesville, Florida. e workshop will focus on Hopkins U, [email protected] recent developments in functional data analysis (FDA) which is emerging as one of the Contributed Papers Chair: Karl Broman, most important new statistical methodologies with diverse applications in all areas of Johns Hopkins U, [email protected] statistics ranging from image analysis to bioinformatics. Details posted soon: www.enar.org Invited speakers include: Randy Eubank (Texas A & M), Jinxing Fan (U of North Carolina), Rob Kass (Carnegie-Mellon U), Mary Lindstorm (U of Wisconsin), Steve Sponsored/Numbered Meeting (281) Marron ( U of North Carolina), Susan Murphy (U of Michigan), Jim Ramsey (McGill IMS New Researchers Conference U, Canada), Bernard Silverman (U of Bristol, UK), Brani Vidakovic (Georgia Tech U), July 29-August 2, 2003, U of California, Davis Naisyin Wang (Texas A & M) IMS Program Chair: Richard Levine (U of In addition to invited sessions, the conference will include a contributed poster session. CA, Davis) [email protected] Funds may be available for students and junior researchers from peer institutions who will IMS Local Chair: Juanjuan Fan (U of CA, present a poster in the conference. Interested students and junior researchers should e-mail Davis) [email protected] [email protected]. e symposium is organized by George Casella, Alexandre Trindade, http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~levine/NRC/ Bhramar Mukherjee, Jim Booth, Clyde Schoolfield, Jim Hobert, Brett Presnell and Samuel Wu. IMS Invited Paper Session at the For more detailed information please contact: International Statistical Institute, 54th Carol Rozear, Biennial Session Dept. of Statistics, The Analysis of Gene Expression Data University of Florida, August 13-20, 2003, Berlin P.O. Box , Gainesville, IMS Organizer: Mike West, Duke U, FL -,USA [email protected] (speakers are Rainer e-mail: [email protected] Spang [email protected], Max Phone -- Ext  Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik; Fax --. Sandrine Dudoit, [email protected]. or visit the conference website at: edu, of UCBerkeley and Mike West) http://www.stat.ufl.edu/symposium/2003/fundat/ 14 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 15

Last Year’s Welcome Reception and Student Mixer in Atlanta

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Meetings around the world: Announcements and Information The 10th International Congress on Mathematical Education, ICME-10 July 4-11, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark Göttingen University opens new PhD Program Under the auspices of ICMI (International e Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has opened a new PhD program in Applied Commission on Mathematical Instruction) Statistics and Empirical Methods starting October , . e program is offered by the the th International Center of Statistics and is open to students in Agricultural Science, Biology, Economics, Congress on Mathematical Forest Science, Mathematics, Medicine, or Social Science with a strong background in Education, ICME-, will statistics. All courses are taught in English. Tuition fees are waived and registration fees are be held in Copenhagen, less than  Euro annually. Scholarships are available for outstanding candidates only. Denmark, July -,  Applicants should hold an MSc (or equivalent). Good knowledge of the English language e aim of the ICME congresses is to: and statistical methods are required. show what is happening in mathematics Current topics in statistical methods and data analysis techniques education worldwide, in terms of are taught by internationally recognized experts. Statistics courses research as well as teaching practices; offered by the ZfS include: Financial time series analysis; Smoothing exchange information on the problems of techniques; Genetic epidemiology; Pattern recognition; Resampling methods and mathematics education around the world; algorithms; Survey sampling; Spatial statistics; Survival analysis. and learn and benefit from recent advances CUTTING EDGE PHD PROJECTS: e three year PhD period emphasizes independent and in mathematics as a discipline. interdisciplinary research of our students. It is intended that your PhD project results in a ICME- hopes to attract - major scientific contribution to your field of specialization. Large interest in development researchers in mathematics education, and application of current statistical methods and software is expected. mathematics educators, including teachers, More detailed information about the procedure can be found at www.statistics.uni- and others working within the educational goettingen.de. system, from around  countries. Full information is at www.icme-10.dk

Journal of Concrete And Applicable Applied Analysis, Applied Functional In general any kind of Concretely Mathematics: Scope/Calling For Papers Analysis, Probability theory, Stochastic presented Mathematics which is applicable e Journal of Concrete and Applicable Processes, Approximation Theory, O. D. E, P. fits to the scope of this journal. Mathematics (JCAAM) is a peer-reviewed D. E, Wavelet, Neural Networks, Difference Working Concretely and in Applicable International Quarterly Journal, published Equations, Summability, Fractals, Special Mathematics has become a main trend in by Nova Science, NY. Functions, Splines, Asymptotic Analysis, many recent years, so we can understand We are calling for high quality papers Fractional Analysis, Inequalities, Moment better and deeper and solve the important for publication to JCAAM. Theory, Numerical Functional Analysis, problems of our real and scientific world. e main purpose of JCAAM is to Tomography, Asymptotic Expansions, Interested authors should submit  hard publish high quality original research Fourier Analysis, Applied Harmonic copies typed in TEX or LATEX to the articles from all subareas of Non-Pure and/ Analysis, Integral Equations, Signal Editor-in-Chief, Dr George Anastassiou, by or Applicable Mathematics and its many Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Optimization, REGULAR MAIL only. We do not accept real life applications, as well as connections Operations Research, Linear Programming, e-mail submissions and we do not accept to other areas of Mathematical Sciences, Fuzzyness, Mathematical Finance, registered mail. as long as they are presented in a Concrete Stochastic Analysis, Game Theory, Math. George A. Anastassiou, Ph. D way. It also welcomes related research survey Physics aspects, Applied Real and Complex Professor of Mathematics articles and book reviews. Analysis, Computational Number Theory, Department of Mathematical Sciences A sample list of connected mathematical Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Computer e University of Memphis, areas with this publication includes, and is Science Math, related topics, combinations Memphis, TN , USA not restricted to: of the above etc. 16 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 17

2003 New Zealand Statistical Association International Conference on Applied Justus F. Seely Memorial Conference on Annual Conference Statistics, Actuarial Science and Financial Linear Models July 2-4, 2003: Palmerston North, New Mathematics July 31 - August 1, 2003, Corvallis, Oregon Zealand December 17-19, 2002, Hong Kong. A two-day conference on linear models www-ist.massey.ac.nz/stats/nzsa2003/ e University of Hong Kong and e will be held at Oregon State University Contact Duncan Hedderley, IIST, Massey Hong Kong Polytechnic University in memory of Justus F. Seely, a long-time U, Private Bag , Palmerston North, are pleased to host the International faculty member of the Department of New Zealand, or email D.I.Hedderley@ Conference on Applied Statistics, Actuarial Statistics and an internationally recognized massey. ac.nz Science and Financial Mathematics. researcher in linear model theory. e aim of the conference is to provide Current conference plans include a a forum for researchers, practitioners keynote address, several invited paper 10th Annual Merck-Temple Conference on and educators to share their experience and contributed poster sessions, as Research Topics in Pharmaceutical Statistics and latest developments in Applied well as a mid-conference banquet. e November 22, 2002: Philadelphia, PA. Statistics, Actuarial Science and Financial conference occurs immediately prior Speakers: David DeMets; Ingram Olkin; Mathematics. to the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Sanat Sarkar; Keith Soper; Anastasios Many leading experts and distinguished Francisco to allow convenient attendance Tsiatis; Scott Zeger. speakers will give invited talks, among at both events. Limited financial support w www.sbm.temple.edu/~biostat. t () whom are Jianqing Fan, Hans Gerber, will be available to help defray the - e [email protected] Tze Leung Lai, Harry Panjer and Howard expenses of student and junior faculty Waters. attendees. Visit the conference website, We welcome papers relevant to the www.oregonstate.edu/dept/statistics/ The Second Thiele Symposium on Financial themes of the conference. Abstracts of not seelyconf, for further information. Updates Econometrics more than  words should be submitted to the website will be made periodically as October 17-18, 2002: University of by September , . Submissions should conference plans are finalized. Questions Copenhagen, Denmark be made electronically via e-mail to icaaf- concerning the conference may be addressed Organizers: David Lando, omas Mikosch [email protected] to the conference co-chairs: Cliff Pereira and Michael Sørensen. Web-page: http: Further information about the conference ([email protected]; tel.  -) //www.math.ku.dk/~michael/thiele2/ is at: http://web.hku.hk/~icaaf/ and Dave Birkes ([email protected]; tel.  -).

International Conference on Reliability and Past IMS Bulletin Survival Analysis Editors May 21-24, 2003, Columbia, South Carolina e  International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis (ICRSA) Leo Katz (1972-74) will be held on May - on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia. e objectives are to bring together senior researchers, young researchers, and Dorian Feldman (1975-80) practitioners from around the world in the areas of reliability theory and its applications, survival analysis, and related topics to learn about current work and future trends for William C Guenther (1981-86) research in these areas. ere will be both invited and contributed paper sessions with a mix of senior and junior scientists. Also, plenary talks by distinguished leaders in the George P H Styan (1987-92) fields will cover key areas of current research. Sessions devoted to contributed poster presentations by graduate students and beginning doctoral researchers will also be Susan R Wilson (1992-97) organized. To encourage participation by new researchers, some support for graduate students who are contributing a poster or talk at the conference is expected to be available Dipak K Dey (1998-2001) on a competitive basis. Additional conference information and registration details are available at www.stat.sc.edu/~padgett/ICRSA2003/ or contact Edsel Peña by e-mail at [email protected]. 16 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 17

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Royal Statistical Society, Research Section: Half-day Meeting On Inverse Problems Call For Papers e Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society is planning a half-day extended ordinary meeting on Statistical Approaches To Inverse Problems. e aim is to bring together statisticians and scientists working in this rapidly developing area. In the tradition of RSS Ordinary Meetings, papers presented at the meeting will be published in JRSS, with discussion. e organisers are particularly looking for papers which develop generic statistical methodology applicable to a wide range of problems. Possible topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: deconvolution, inverse Laplace and Fourier problems, estimation of surfaces, source separation, model choice issues, tomography, wavelet and multiscale approaches. e meeting is planned to take place in London in December 2003. Key deadlines are the following: • authors who wish to present a paper must submit a single-page abstract by  September  • authors of selected abstracts will then be invited to submit a full paper of about  to  journal pages by  February  • papers will be subject to refereeing, with feedback to authors by  May  • final versions of accepted papers will be required by  September . If you would like to present a paper at this meeting, please send your single-page abstract electronically, as a LaTeX, postscript or PDF file to [email protected] by  SEPTEMBER .

Call For Nominations: C.R. And Bhargavi Rao Prize for Outstanding Research in Statistics e C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize is established to honor and recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the field of statistics. e Rao Prize is awarded by the Department of Statistics at Penn State University to a nominee selected by the members of the Rao Prize Committee. Nominations for the  Rao Prize should be submitted by December ,  to: Chair, Rao Prize Selection Committee,  omas Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA - e Rao prize shall be awarded every two years (odd numbered years) to an individual working in the United States. e award recipient will receive a medal, cash prize and an invitation to visit Penn State and give a talk. Nominations should include a letter describing the nominee’s outstanding contributions to leadership and research in statistics, a current curriculum vita, and two supporting letters. See www.stat.psu.edu for additional information.

Employment Opportunities around the world AUSTRALIA The University of Sydney focus on Bioinformatics and will be modelling; analysis of gene sequence data; Applications are invited for a Lecturer/ expected to participate in statistical research population genetics. Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics in the relevant to Bioinformatics. e position is full-time continuing, School of Mathematics and Statistics. e Essential criteria: a PhD in Statistics; subject to a satisfactory probation and/or position will be joint with the Sydney demonstrated computational skills; a good confirmation period for new appointees. University Biological Information and knowledge of theoretical statistics; ability For further information contact Technology Centre (SUBIT) and the to teach a range of courses in Statistics; Professor John Robinson phone:   appointee will be located both in the good written and verbal communication , fax:    or e-mail: School of Mathematics and Statistics skills; interest in application of statistics to [email protected] and the Medical Foundation Building. Biology; ability to work cooperatively with Information on the School and details on e successful applicant will teach in others. Desirable criteria: demonstrated methods of application are available from: the Statistics Program of the School of interest in one of the following areas, http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/ or Mathematics and Statistics, will contribute Models and inference for phylogenetic tree http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SUBIT/ to supervision of students with a special reconstruction; classification trees; stochastic Closing Date:  August,  20 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 21 Employment Opportunities continued CANADA ��

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USA: MASSACHUSETTS USA: MASSACHUSETTS e Williams College Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites applications for Radcliffe Institute, Harvard one position in statistics, beginning fall , at the rank of assistant professor (in an e Radcliffe Institute for Advanced exceptional case, a more advanced appointment may be considered). We are seeking a Study at Harvard University awards  fully highly qualified candidate who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and research, and funded residential fellowships each year who will have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment. designed to support post-doctoral scholars Williams College is a private, residential, highly selective liberal arts college with an and scientists of exceptional promise and undergraduate enrollment of approximately , students. demonstrated accomplishment. Please e teaching load is two courses per -week semester and a winter term course every check the Web site for more information: other January. In addition to excellence in teaching, an active and successful research www.radcliffe.edu. program is expected. Radcliffe Application Office,  Concord To apply, please send a vita and have three letters of recommendation on teaching and Ave, Cambridge, MA  research sent to the Hiring Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, t -- Williams College, Williamstown, MA . f -- Teaching and research statements are also welcome. Evaluations of applications will begin [email protected] on or after November  and will continue until the positions are filled. Williams College Applications must be postmarked by is dedicated to providing a welcoming intellectual environment for all of its faculty, staff October , . and students; as an EEO/AA employer, Williams especially encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities. For more information on the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, visit http://www.williams.edu/Mathematics. 20 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 21

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MEXICO Tenure track/visiting positions in Probability and Statistics Centro De Investigacion En Matematicas, Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico e Department of Probability and Statistics ( http://random.cimat.mx/~pye/ ) announces the opening of two open-level tenure track/ visiting positions, starting February . e candidates should have a Ph. D. in Statistics or Mathematics and a strong commitment for teaching and continuing and directing research in the areas of Statistics, Probability and their applications. We require good communication skills. Conversational knowledge of Spanish is a plus. Salaries will depend on qualifications. Applications should include curriculum vitae, a summary of research interests and projects of the candidate, and three letters of recommendations which should describe in some detail the candidate’s teaching and research qualifications. It would be useful to include a copy of the academic transcripts and diplomas. Review of applications will begin on October st, . Visiting position applicants should indicate the part of the year they wish to visit. e positions will remain open until filled. Applications should be sent to: Departamento de Probabilidad y Estadistica, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, Apartado Postal ,  Guanajuato, Mexico. Fax: +   Contact person: Jose Alfredo Lopez Mimbela HONG KONG, R.O.C. The Hong Kong University Of Science And UNITED KINGDOM Technology, Department of Mathematics e Department of Mathematics invites applications for faculty positions at the rank of Associate Professor or Assistant Professor from all areas of mathematics �� with preference on statistics and applied mathematics. Exceptionally strong research and �� teaching experience is required. Applicants must demonstrate excellence in teaching �� and proven ability to teach effectively in �� English. �� Starting rank and salary will depend �� on qualifications and experience. Benefits �� including medical and dental benefits, �� and assistance in housing will be provided �� where applicable. Initial appointment will �� normally be on three-year contract. A �� gratuity will be payable upon successful �� completion of contract. �� Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and ask at least three referees to send �� letters of recommendations direct, before ��  November  to the Personnel Office, �� HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, �� Hong Kong [Fax: ()  ]. �� More information about the University �� is available on the University's homepage �� . �� (Information provided by applicants will be �� used for recruitment and other employment- �� related purposes.) 22 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 4 July/August . 2002 IMS Bulletin . 23

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