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Obituary Written by Rudolf Beran and Grace Yang, Which Was Published in the Ratio, Which Implies Exact Recovery As a IMS Bulletin in September 2000 Volume 50 • Issue 2 IMS Bulletin March 2021 2020 William Benter Prize Michael Waterman wins 2020 William Benter Prize CONTENTS The William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics recognizes exceptional mathematical 1 William Benter Prize : Michael contributions that have had a lasting impact on scientific, business, finance and engi- Waterman neering applications. It is awarded to an individual for a single contribution or a body 2 Members’ news : Peter Bickel, of contributions they have achieved in their lifetime of research and achievement in Sara Venkatraman, Robert mathematics. The William Benter Prize, amounting to US$100,000, is awarded every Tumasian, Joshua Tebbs, James two years, with the recipients giving a lecture at the City University of Hong Kong. O’Malley, Xuming He The 2020 William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Michael S. Waterman, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California and Radu’s Rides: A Valentine’s 4 Distinguished Research Professor at University of Virginia. Day Special Michael Waterman moved to USC in 5 IMS President’s update 1982 after positions at Los Alamos National 6 Preview of Le Cam Lecture: Laboratory and Idaho State University. He has a Jianqing Fan bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Oregon State University, and a PhD in Statistics and 7 Remembering Lucien Le Cam Probability from Michigan State University. He 9 Recent papers: Electronic has held visiting positions at the University of Journal of Statistics and Hawaii (1979–80), the University of California Statistics Surveys at San Francisco (1982), Mt. Sinai Medical 10 Student Puzzle 33 (and School (1988), Chalmers University (2000), solution to 32) and in 2000–01 he held the Aisenstadt Chair 11 Obituaries: Dmitry Ioffe, at University of Montreal. At the beginning of Michael S. Waterman Arianna Rosenbluth, Elizabeth 2020, he became University Professor Emeritus Meckes, S. James Taylor at the University of Southern California and was 15 When Experts Go Wrong: appointed Distinguished Research Professor at University of Virginia. Yoram Gat responds to Jeffrey Michael Waterman was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1995. He is an elected Rosenthal member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of 16 Meetings (including online) Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering; he is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, IMS, SIAM, the International 18 Employment Opportunities; ; Society of Computational Biology, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is Call for COVID-19 papers an elected Foreign Member of the French Académie des Sciences and the Chinese 20 Calendar of Meetings Academy of Sciences. He received honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and 23 Information for Advertisers Southern Denmark University. The William Benter Prizes for 2020 and 2022 will be awarded to the laureates at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics, ICAM 2022, organized at City University of Hong Kong, tentatively in May/June 2022. The prize founder, William (Bill) Benter, is a businessman and investment statistician who spent much of his career Read it online: in Hong Kong. imstat.org/news Read more about the prize: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/rcms/WBP/index.html. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 50 . Issue 2 Volume 50 • Issue 2 March 2021 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Peter Bickel honored at Pfizer Colloquium Contact information The 26th Pfizer/ASA/UConn Distinguished IMS Bulletin Editor: Tati Howell Statistician Colloquium is scheduled on [email protected] Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 3:00-5:00pm Managing Editor: Bob Keener via webinar. This year’s distinguished Contributing Editors: speaker will be Professor Peter Bickel, Radu Craiu, Anirban DasGupta, Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstantopou- Department of Statistics, University of los, Xiao-Li Meng, Regina Nuzzo, Kavita California, Berkeley. The title of his presen- Ramanan and Terry Speed tation will be Four Excursions in Genomics. w https://imstat.org/news The colloquium will be followed by a https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI discussion with Liza Levina from University https://twitter.com/InstMathStat of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Purnamrita Sarkar from University of Texas, Austin. 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