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Volume 39 • Issue 5 IMS1935–2010 Bulletin June 2010 IMS Carver Award: Julia Norton Contents Julia A. Norton, Professor Emerita in the 1 IMS Carver Award Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at California State University, East Bay in 2–3 Members’ News: new US National Academy mem- Hayward, California, USA has received bers; Donald Gaver; Marie the 2010 Carver Medal from the Institute Davidian; tributes to Kiyosi of Mathematical Statistics. The presenta- Itô, Ehsanes Saleh tion of the medal will take place August 4 Laha Award recipients 10, 2010 at a special ceremony during the IMS Annual Meeting in Gothenburg, 5 Statistics museum Sweden. Rietz lecture: Michael Stein 6 Professor Norton receivesThe candidate the award for IMS President-Elect is Medallion Preview: Marek for contributions to the IMS throughout 7 Ruth Williams Biskup her career, and especially for her conscien- tious and pivotal service as IMS Treasurer 8 NISS/SAMSI award; during the period when the IMS Business Samuel Kotz Julia A. Norton Office was moved from California to 9 Obituary: Hirotugu Akaike Ohio. 10 Annual survey She said she was greatly surprised to receive the award, commenting, “I just said yes to all sorts of new ideas that came the way of the Institute during my two terms 11 Rick’s Ramblings: with Larry Shepp as Treasurer.” She added, “Like most things, the best part of the job is the fantastic teamwork displayed by the staff. I am most proud of my hand in helping to hire and Terence’s Stuff: Changes, 12 keep [Executive Director] Elyse in our employ.” courses and committees The Carver Medal was created by the IMS in 2002 13 IMS meetings in honor of Harry C. Carver, Founding Editor of 21 Other meetings the Annals of Mathematical Statistics and one of the founders of the IMS. The medal is for exceptional 22 Employment Opportunities service specifically to the IMS, and is open to any 23 International Calendar of member of the IMS who has not previously been Statistical Events elected President. 27 Information for Advertisers The Carver Award will be presented during the Childcare grant for Gothenburg Presidential Address session on August 10, at the IMS meeting: applyAnnual by June Meeting 1 in Gothenburg, Sweden. See www.ims-gothenburg.com for details. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMs Bulletin Volume 39 . Issue 5 Volume 39 • Issue 5 June 2010 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 US National Academy of Sciences elects new members and associates Contact information The United States National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 72 new IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He members and 18 foreign associates from 14 countries, in recognition of their distinguished Assistant Editor: Tati Howell and continuing achievements in original research. Among these are four IMS members and Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, Fellows. Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed The election was held during the business session of the 147th annual meeting of the To contact the IMS Bulletin: Academy, in April. Those newly elected bring the total number of active members to 2,097. IMS Bulletin Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the 2 Lampern View, Uley, Dursley GL11 5TD United States. This election brings the total number of foreign associates to 409. UK The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers e [email protected] dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on To contact the IMS regarding your dues, the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: matter of science or technology. Additional information about the Academy and its mem- IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office bers is available online at http://www.nasonline.org. 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Among the newly elected members are: Bethesda MD 20814-3998 • Jerome H. Friedman, professor of statistics, department of statistics, Stanford USA University, Stanford, Calif. t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] • Michael I. Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, department of statistics and t +1 216 295 5661[international] department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, f +1 301 634 7099 e [email protected] Berkeley • Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, department of statistics, Harvard To contact the IMS regarding any other University, Cambridge, Mass. matter, including advertising, copyright One of the newly-elected foreign associates is David Aldous, professor of statistics in the permission, offprint orders, copyright transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows department of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley (whose country of citizen- nominations and content of publications: ship is United Kingdom). Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office Childcare Grants Donald Gaver receives US Army’s Samuel Wilks Award PO Box 22718, Beachwood The IMS will Donald Gaver, distinguished professor of OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] provide funding operations research at the Naval t +1 216 295 5661[international] for childcare Postgraduate School in Monterey, f +1 216 295 5661 at the 2010 California, since 1970, was named the 2009 e [email protected] Annual Meeting recipient of the U.S. Army Wilks Award. in Gothenburg, The award was presented to Gaver on Executive Committee Sweden, August October 21 at the 2009 Army Conference President: J. Michael Steele 9–13. The IMS will on Applied Statistics at Arizona State [email protected] Donald Gaver reimburse members University. President-Elect: Peter Hall [email protected] 80% of the costs of The Wilks Award goes to an individual who has made substan- Past President: Nanny Wermuth privately-arranged tial contributions to statistical methodology and to applications [email protected] child care. The impacting the practice of statistics in the Army. At the award Treasurer: Rong Chen application deadline ceremony, special mention was made of Gaver’s strong contribu- [email protected] is June 1. tions to statistical modeling and inference and to multiple aspects Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] www.imstat.org/ of reliability theory and its applications. Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp meetings/childcare. [email protected] htm IMS Editors June . 2010 IMs Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Bühlmann and Tony Cai http://imstat.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Stein, Karen Kafadar & Samuel Kou Marie Davidian receives NC State’s Holladay Medal http://imstat.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni Marie Davidian is the recipient of the North Carolina State University Alexander Quarles http://imstat.org/aop Holladay Medal for Excellence—the highest award given by NC State in recognition Annals of Applied Probability: Andrew Barbour of faculty career accomplishments. She received a medal and a framed certificate at the http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan university’s commencement dinner on May 14. Established in 1992, the Holladay Medal http://imstat.org/sts recognizes members of the NC State faculty who have made outstanding contributions to IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta the university through achievements in research, teaching, or service over their careers. http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta http://imstat.org/publications/ Kiyosi Itô tribute in free issue of Stochastic Processes and their Applications imscollections.htm Thomas Mikosch is editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA). He writes: NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm The journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications is proud to announce that its special May 2010 issue, “A tribute to Kiyosi Itô,” is available free of charge on ScienceDirect IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications (www.sciencedirect.com) and on the SPA website www.elsevier.com/locate/spa. The issue Electronic Journal of Statistics: David Ruppert was guest edited by Marc Yor and Maria Eulalia Vares and features articles by former stu- http://imstat.org/ejs dents of Professor Itô — Professors Masatoshi Fukushima, Nobuyuki Ikeda, Hiroshi Kunita, Electronic Journal of Probability: Bálint Tóth http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp and Shinzo Watanabe — and French probabilists, Professors Jean Bertoin, Philippe Biane, Electronic Communications in Probability: Jean-Francois Le Gall, and Wendelin Werner. Their masterly written papers bring the Timo Seppäläinen reader to the core of the topics and convincingly present the contributions of Kiyosi Itô http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp /ECP/index.php as well as their influence on theoretical and applied research in stochastic processes in the Current Index to Statistics: George Styan past, present and future. The issue is annotated by additional material about some aspects http://www.statindex.org of K. Itô’s work (M. 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