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IMS Election Results We Are Pleased to Announce the Results Contents of the IMS Council Elections Volume 37 • Issue 7 IMS Bulletin August/September 2008 IMS Election results We are pleased to announce the results CONTENTS of the IMS Council elections. The new IMS Election results IMS President-Elect is J. Michael Steele, 1 J. Michael Steele ► who is C. F. Koo Professor of Statistics President-Elect 2 Members’ News: Prakasa Rao; Joseph Glaz; Jeff Wu; at the Wharton School, University of Jon Rao Pennsylvania. The five newly-elected Council 3 ASA Awards at JSM; Euclid RSS/Atom feed Members are: Peter Hall, Professor, Department of 4 Profile: Richard Johnson Mathematics and Statistics, University ◄ Peter Hall Council member 5 Film: Barbara Bailar of Melbourne; and the University of California, Davis; 6 JSTOR/IMS 10 years Bruce G. Lindsay, Willaman Professor 7 Australian cuts and Department Head, Department 8 Terence’s Stuff: A Rose… of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University; 9 IMS China meeting; Letter Michael Newton, Professor, Departments Bruce Lindsay ► 10 Neyman Lecture: Peter of Statistics and of Biostatistics and Council member McCullagh Medical Informatics, University of 11 IISA conference Wisconsin, Madison; Jane-Ling Wang, Professor, Department 13 Obituary: Aryeh Dvoretzky; Journal news of Statistics, University of California at Davis; and IMS meetings 14 Bin Yu, Professor, Department of Statistics ◄ Michael Newton 19 Other meetings; and Department of Electrical Council member Employment Opportunities Engineering & Computer Science, 20 International Calendar of University of California at Berkeley. Statistical Events These six take up their positions at the IMS annual meeting in Singapore. 23 Information for Advertisers Serving on council from 2006–09 are 24 Kakuro corner Martin Barlow, Frank Den Hollander, Jane-Ling Wang ► Council member Iain Johnstone, Karen Kafadar, and Xiao-Li Meng. Serving on council from 2007–10 are Montse Fuentes, Geoffrey Grimmett, Maria Eulalia Vares, Jon Wellner, and Alan Welsh. We thank outgoing council members for this year ◄ Bin Yu Council member (Maury Bramson, Merlise Clyde, John H.J. Einmahl, Jun Liu, and Daniel Peña) for your service over the past three years! IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 37 . Issue 7 Volume 37 • Issue 7 August/September 2008 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 B.L.S. Prakasa Rao wins Indian Government’s P.V. Sukhatme Award Contact information Professor B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professor at the Department of IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, India, has been selected for the Assistant Editor: Tati Howell National Award in Statistics for Senior Statistician in memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme for Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, 2007–08. The Government of India’s Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed instituted the national award for outstanding and meritorious research work in statistics To contact the IMS Bulletin: in memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme. The main objective of this award is to encourage inde- IMS Bulletin pendent and high quality research work in the field of applied/official statistics, particularly 20 Shadwell, Uley, Dursley GL11 5BW on issues and problems relating to the statistical system in the country. The award is given UK for lifetime contribution to the development of statistical system in the field of applied/ e [email protected] official statistics. The award carries an amount of 1 lakh rupees (100,000Rs—equivalent to about two months’ salary of a Full Professor in India) along with a citation. B.L.S. Prakasa To contact the IMS regarding your dues, Rao has made outstanding contributions membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: in the area of applied statistics, particularly Joseph Glaz receives AAUP Excellence in IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office in inference for stochastic processes, Research Award 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A asymptotic theory of statistical inference Joseph Glaz, Professor of Statistics, Bethesda MD 20814-3998 and nonparametric estimation. Among University of Connecticut, received USA his popular books are Statistical Inference the American Association of University t 301.634.7029 for Stochastic Processes, Nonparametric Professors 2008 Excellence in Research f 301.634.7099 Functional Estimation, Asymptotic Theory award. He has also been appointed e [email protected] of Statistical Inference, Semimartingales and Associate Department Head and Director their Statistical Inference and Statistical of Graduate Programs of the University of To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright Inference for Diffusion Type Processes. Connecticut Department of Statistics. permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Jeff Wu and J.N.K. Rao receive Honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree nominations and content of publications: At its ninety-sixth Convocation on June 13, Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office 2008, the University of Waterloo awarded PO Box 22718 honorary Doctor of Mathematics degrees Beachwood to two statistical scientists. Professor C.F. OH 44122 USA Jeff Wu, Coca Cola Chair in Engineering t 216.295.2340 Statistics at the Georgia Institute of f 216.295.5661 Technology, was honored for his path- e [email protected] breaking contributions to the design of experiments in industry and manufacturing Executive Committee design. Professor Wu had held the GM/ Jeff Wu [above, right] and Jon Rao [below, right] President: Jianqing Fan NSERC Chair in Quality and Productivity [email protected] receive their University of Waterloo honorary degrees at Waterloo from 1988 to 1993. Professor President-Elect: Nanny Wermuth [email protected] J.N.K. (Jon) Rao, Distinguished Research Past President: Jim Pitman Professor of Carleton University, was cele- [email protected] brated for his fundamental contributions to Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen the theory of survey sampling, and its prac- [email protected] tice by government agencies and research Treasurer: Rong Chen [email protected] organizations. Through their work and their Program Secretary: Guenther Walther students, both have had a profound impact [email protected] on statistics internationally. IMS Editors August/September . 2008 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy & Bernard Silverman http://imstat.org/aos/ ASA Awards at JSM Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein ASA Awards presented at JSM in Denver http://imstat.org/aoas/ Annals of Probability: Gregory Lawler The American Statistical Association’s Samuel S. http://imstat.org/aop/ Wilks Award, one of the ASA’s most prestigious, Annals of Applied Probability: Edward Waymire was established in 1964 to honor the memory http://imstat.org/aap/ Statistical Science: David Madigan and distinguished career of Samuel S. Wilks by http://imstat.org/sts/ recognizing outstanding contributions to statistics IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta that carry on in the spirit of his work. Scott Zeger, http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta Johns Hopkins University, is awarded the 2008 http://imstat.org/publications/ Samuel S. Wilks medal for outstanding contribu- imscollections.htm tions to statistics. NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm The Noether Awards were established in 1999 as a tribute to Gottfried Emanuel Noether, IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications who died on August 22, 1991, in Windham, Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman Connecticut. His wife, Emiliana Noether, and http://imstat.org/ejs/ daughter, Monica Noether, presented the ASA with an endowment fund to recognize Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Greven http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ distinguished researchers and teachers and to support research in the field of nonparametric Electronic Communications in Probability: David Nualart statistics. The Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award, for outstanding contributions http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp to the theory and applications of nonparametric statistics, is awarded to Madan L. Puri, /ECP/index.php Noether Young Researcher Award Current Index to Statistics: George Styan Indiana University. The , for outstanding early career http://www.statindex.org contributions to nonparametric statistics, is awarded to Donglin Zeng, University of North Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Carolina. David van Dyk http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs/ The ASA Award of Outstanding Statistical Application is made to Tian Zheng, Statistics Surveys: Jon Wellner Matthew J. Salganik, and Andrew Gelman in recognition of their paper, “How Many http://imstat.org/ss/ People Do You Know in Prison?” (JASA, June 2006) using overdispersion in count data Probability Surveys: David Aldous http://imstat.org/ps/ to estimate social structure in networks; a method for learning about small, hard-to-reach subpopulations, and social network structure from non-network samples. IMS Supported Journals The W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing is made to Andrew L. Rukhin, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B): Alice Guionnet http://imstat.org/aihp/ University of Maryland, and William E. Strawderman, Rutgers University, in recognition of Bayesian Analysis: Brad Carlin their paper, “Statistical Aspects
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