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Jim Pitman I Take This Opportunity to Report on Some Slower in Statistics Volume 35 • Issue 9 IMS Bulletin November 2006 From the IMS President: Jim Pitman I take this opportunity to report on some slower in statistics. CONTENTS of the new initiatives currently being At the Rio meeting 1 President’s Message undertaken by IMS, and to invite you to in July, IMS council support these initiatives in various ways. supported the 2–3 IMS Members’ News: ASA Fellows; Marvin Recognizing that the interests of IMS creation of two new Zelen; Brad Efron; Ciprian members now span an enormous range electronic journals in Crainiceanu; Mariel Finucane; from pure mathematical theory to col- statistics: a research Jim Pitman Hirotugu Akaike laborations with scientists in numerous journal to be called fields, IMS is launching a new journal, the Electronic Journal of Statistics, and a 4 IT Project Manager The Annals of Applied Statistics, aimed at survey journal, Statistics Surveys. What 5 Nominate: Laha Awards papers in the applied half of this range. is most needed now for success of these 6 Nominate: Other IMS Published quarterly in both print and journals is authors willing to submit high Awards electronic form, our goal is to provide a quality articles to these electronic-only timely and unified forum for all areas of outlets. And wherever you submit your 7 Obituary: Raja Deo; LNMS News applied statistics. The first Editor-in-Chief articles, to increase their visibility and is Brad Efron, supported by Stephen impact, please be sure to place a copy on Profile: David Blackwell 8 Fienberg, Editor for social science, gov- ArXiv, preferably at the time of submis- 9 Meeting report: SPA06 ernment, sample surveys, and economics, sion. As a benefit of membership, IMS by Michael Newton, Editor for biology, provides assistance posting articles to 10 New Research Center: Financial Math & Statistics medicine, and genetics, by Michael Stein, ArXiv. If you need assistance, please login Editor for physical science, computation, to your member account at www.imstat. 11 New Journal of Privacy and engineering, and the environment, and org and click on the ArXiv links. Confidentiality; Feltrinelli Prize by a distinguished team of more than In another action at the Rio 30 associate editors. Please support this meeting, IMS council created categories IMS Meetings 13 journal by submitting your best applied of Departmental and Contributing 16 Other Meetings and work there. Membership for organizations that wish Announcements Conferences, journals, and the IMS to be involved with IMS. The intention 17 Employment Opportunities Bulletin and website are different ways is for IMS to support electronic outlets that the IMS serves its purpose “to foster for the aggregation and management 37 International Calendar of the development and dissemination of of professional information provided Statistical Events the theory and applications of statistics by these organizational members. IMS 39 Information for Advertisers and probability”. The IMS manages the already does this on its web site for job 40 Kakuro corner human and technical infrastructure to advertisements, with the service paid provide these services. It is clear that in for by the advertiser, and free to the future most professional communication user. I have been working with IMS will occur in the electronic realm, and on development of software for the that the IMS must adapt its infrastructure automated management and display of to respond. The IMS already supports other categories of professional informa- four electronic-only journals in prob- tion through web services. I hope to see ability, but this development has been these services supported by the same Continued on Page IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 35 . Issue 9 Volume 35 • Issue 9 November 2006 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Thirty IMS Fellows and Members were among the 2006 Fellows of the American Statistical Association presented at JSM in Seattle. ASA Fellows are elected in recognition of out- Contact standing professional contribution to and leadership in the field of statistical science. In Information alphabetical order, they are: Ngai-Hang Chan, Professor of Statistics, Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman Chinese University of Hong Kong Assistant Editor Tati Howell Gauri S. 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Strawderman, Professor of Biological Statistics, Cornell University Beachwood, Jianguo (Tony) Sun, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia OH 44122 Brajendra C. Sutradhar, Professor of Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland USA [pictured above] t 216.295.2340 David A. van Dyk, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Irvine f 216.295.5661 e [email protected] Marina Vannucci, Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University Yazhen Wang, Professor of Statistics, University of Connecticut Yuedong Wang, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara Jon A. Wellner, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington Hongyu Zhao, Ira V. Hiscock Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine November . 2006 IMs Bulletin . IMS Executive Committee President: Jim Pitman More Members’ News [email protected] President-Elect: Jianqing Fan 2006 ASA Awards Recipients [email protected] The following IMS members and Fellows received special ASA awards at JSM in August. Past President: Thomas G Kurtz Marvin Zelen, Harvard School of Public Health, received the Wilks Medal for dem- [email protected] onstrating extraordinary leadership in the development and advancement of statistics in Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen the public interest, particularly with regards to developing models for the organization [email protected] and deployment of statistical resources in support of clinical research; for fundamental Treasurer: Jiayang Sun contributions to reliability theory, experimental design, and the design and analysis of [email protected] randomized clinical trials; for significant contributions to cancer research; for extraordinary Program Secretary: Nicholas Hengartner contributions as an educator and mentor; and for outstanding service to the academy and [email protected] the profession. Bradley Efron, Stanford University, received the 2006 Noether Senior Scholar Award IMS Editors for a lifetime of outstanding achievements and contributions in nonparametric statistics in Annals of Statistics: Morris Eaton both research and teaching. Dr. Efron delivered his invited address, “Doing Thousands of [email protected] Hypothesis Tests at the Same Time,” August 9, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. & Jianqing Fan [email protected] Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University, was recognized as the 2006 Noether Annals of Probability: Greg Lawler Young Researcher Award for achievements as a young scholar in the field of nonparametric [email protected] statistics. While the 2005 Noether Young Researcher, Jeffrey S. Morris, The University Annals of Applied Probability: Edward C Waymire of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, presented his invited address, “Bayesian Mixed [email protected] Models for Functional Data,” August 9, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. Statistical Science: Ed George Mariel Finucane, Smith College, received the 2006 Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship for [email protected] outstanding studies in a graduate
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