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July 2008 Article in the IMS Bulletin Volume 37 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin July 2008 World Congress approaches he Seventh World Congress CONTENTS in Probability and Statistics, 1 IMS Annual Meeting jointly sponsored by IMS and Tthe Bernoulli Society, will be held in 2 Members’ News: Richard A Johnson; George Roussas; Singapore from July 14 to 19, 2008. Sastry Pantula; ASA fellows; For those planning to attend, on pages Guenther Walther 14–15 Sau Ling Wu outlines some of Singapore’s highlights, including those for 3 Bayesian Analysis journal; Citation Statistics report culture vultures, shoppers and epicures! According to Raffles Hotel, any visit is 4 Meeting reports: Bayesian incomplete without a Singapore Sling— Methods; SSP; ENAR an intoxicating cocktail much like the city 7 Medallion Lecture: Mary itself, with its fascinating blend of cultural Sara McPeek influences. 8 Shooting ourselves in the Check the Congress website for fur- Spot the similarities! Small wonder that Singapore’s foot? ther information as the date draws nearer: top-notch performance centre, The Esplanade [below], http://www2.ims.nus.edu.sg/ is known affectionately by locals as 9 Profile: Tom Liggett “The Durian”. The fruit [above] Programs/wc2008/ has a distinctive aroma so 10 Other news strong that it is forbid- Rick’s Ramblings den to eat it on 11 public transport! 12 IMS Fellows 2008 14 Singapore in a Nutshell 16 Letters 17 Terence’s Stuff: 2x2 19 Obituaries: Chris Heyde; Shihong Cheng 21 IMS meetings 28 Other meetings 29 Employment Opportunities 31 International Calendar of Statistical Events We are pleased to announce the 2009 IMS Medallion Lecturers: Peter Bühlmann, 35 Information for Advertisers Tony Cai, Claudia Klüppelberg, Sam Kou, Gabor Lugosi, David Madigan, Gareth Roberts and Gordon Slade. The 2008 Special Invited Lecturers are: Richard 36 Kakuro corner Durrett (Wald Lectures); Peter McCullagh (Neyman Lecture); and the eight Medallion Lecturers: Martin Barlow, Peter Bartlett, George Casella, Mark Low, Zhi-Ming Ma, Mary Sara McPeek, Alistair Sinclair and Wendelin Werner IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 37 . Issue 6 Volume 37 • Issue 6 July 2008 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Richard A. Johnson receives Carver Medal Academy of Athens elects George Roussas Contact information Richard A. Johnson, Professor in the Distinguished Professor George G. Roussas, IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He Department of Statistics at the University Department of Statistics at the University Assistant Editor: Tati Howell of Wisconsin–Madison, has been selected of California, Davis, who is an IMS Fellow, Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, to receive the 2008 Carver Medal from the has been elected a Corresponding Member Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The of the Academy of Athens, Greece, in the To contact the IMS Bulletin: presentation of the medal will take place field of Mathematical Statistics. Founded in IMS Bulletin July 14, 2008, at a special ceremony at the 1926, the Academy’s 20 Shadwell, Uley, Dursley GL11 5BW IMS Annual Meeting in Singapore. objective is the UK Professor Johnson receives the award “for cultivation and e [email protected] exemplary service and patient wisdom in the advancement of the creative administration and guidance of IMS sciences, humanities To contact the IMS regarding your dues, programs in different roles over two decades.” and fine arts. membership, subscriptions, orders or George Roussas change of address: The Carver Medal was created by IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office the IMS in 2002, in honor of Harry C. ASA Election Results 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A Carver, Founding Editor of the Annals Sastry Pantula is the next President-Elect Bethesda MD 20814-3998 of Mathematical Statistics and one of the of the American Statistical Association. USA founders of the IMS. The medal is for Sastry is head of the North Carolina State t 301.634.7029 exceptional service specifically to the IMS. University Statistics Department and f 301.634.7099 Look out for a profile of Richard soon! Director of the Institute of Statistics. e [email protected] American Statistical Association announces 53 new Fellows To contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright The ASA has announced the election of 53 Fellows, among whom two are IMS Fellows: permission, offprint orders, copyright Roger Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yacine Aït-Sahalia, transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Princeton University. Twelve more are IMS members: Subhabrata Chakraborti, University nominations and content of publications: of Alabama; Xu-Feng Niu, Florida State University; Brani Vidakovic, Georgia Institute Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office of Technology; Daniel S. Nettleton, Iowa State University; Yongzhao Shao, Iowa State PO Box 22718 University; Aparna V. Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Alyson G. Wilson, Beachwood Los Alamos National Laboratory; Hulin Wu, University of Rochester; Emmanuel Yashchin, OH 44122 USA IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York; Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina t 216.295.2340 State University; John J. Peterson, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA; and f 216.295.5661 Joseph W. Hogan, Brown University. The full list is at http://www.amstat.org/pressroom/ e [email protected] index.cfm?fuseaction=2008fellows The recipients received the honor in recognition of their outstanding professional Executive Committee contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science. The ASA Fellows will be President: Jianqing Fan presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, August 5, at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver. [email protected] President-Elect: Nanny Wermuth [email protected] New IMS Program Secretary Past President: Jim Pitman The IMS Program Secretary is Guenther Walther, who is Professor [email protected] of Statistics at Stanford University. His term runs until August Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen 2009. The Program Secretary coordinates information for the IMS [email protected] about meetings, and proposes locations and dates of future annual, Treasurer: Rong Chen [email protected] regional and special topics meetings. For information on IMS spon- Program Secretary: Guenther Walther NEW sorship of meetings and workshops, see www.imstat.org/program/ [email protected] numbered.htm and www.imstat.org/program/workshop.htm Guenther Walther July . 2008 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Editors Bayesian Analysis now IMS-Supported IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Susan Murphy & Bernard Silverman Bayesian Analysis (BA) is the official journal of ISBA, the International Society for Bayesian http://imstat.org/aos/ Analysis. It is the latest journal to become IMS-supported, as described at www.imstat. Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein org/publications/supported.html, joining the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (B) and http://imstat.org/aoas/ Bernoulli. Bayesian Analysis is an open access journal, published quarterly online. Each issue Annals of Probability: Gregory Lawler consists of about 10 papers, usually including a discussion paper with rejoinder. Articles are http://imstat.org/aop/ Annals of Applied Probability: Edward Waymire posted at ba.stat.cmu.edu/forthcoming.php as they are accepted. http://imstat.org/aap/ BA’s Editor-in-Chief is Bradley P. Carlin, Mayo Professor in Statistical Science: David Madigan Public Health in the Division of Biostatistics, School of Public http://imstat.org/sts/ IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta Health, University of Minnesota. Commenting on the deal with http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS, Brad says, “We are very excited by our emerging publishing IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta partnership with IMS, and are confident it will greatly expand the http://imstat.org/publications/ imscollections.htm usefulness and accessibility of Bayesian Analysis for members of NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: ISBA, IMS, and the statistical community at large.” http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm IMS and ISBA came to a deal earlier this year on joint member- Brad Carlin, Editor-in- IMS Co-sponsored Journals and ship, too: IMS members are entitled to a 25% discount on the Chief of Bayesian Analysis Publications ISBA membership dues, and ISBA members can join (or renew Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman http://imstat.org/ejs/ with) IMS at 25% off the regular IMS dues rate. See https://www. Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Greven imstat.org/secure/orders/IndMember.asp http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ Electronic Communications in Probability: David Nualart http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp /ECP/index.php Current Index to Statistics: George Styan Citation Statistics report http://www.statindex.org The International Mathematical Union, research— Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: David van Dyk in conjunction with IMS and the an under- http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs/ International Council on Industrial and standing Statistics Surveys: Jon Wellner Applied Mathematics has released their that is http://imstat.org/ss/ Probability Surveys: David Aldous joint Citation Statistics report. Citation- valid only http://imstat.org/ps/ based statistics are often used to assess when IMS Supported Journals scientific research, but the report strongly reinforced Bayesian
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