Volume 42 • Issue 2 IMS Bulletin March 2013 What you can do for IMS… CONTENTS and what IMS can do for you 1 Support, and be supported IMS President Hans Künsch writes: Back in the eighties, my main by, the IMS reason for joining IMS was that this allowed me to purchase my own copy of the Annals of Statistics at a cheap price. Although the 2–3 Members’ News: Peter Hall; Annals were also available at three different libraries at my univer- J K Ghosh; Jean Opsomer; sity, that was an advantage because I immediately saw when a new JP Morgan; NISS news; AMS issue had arrived and I did not have to copy those articles that I Fellows; Shahjahan Khan Hans Künsch wanted to read. Nowadays, things have completely changed: I can 4 Distinguished Statistician get email alerts for newly-accepted papers, and I have all journals available online on Film: Stephen Fienberg my computer through our university library subscription. So this incentive to become 5 X-L Files: A Fundamental an IMS member has disappeared. Moreover, universities have reduced multiple sub- Link between Statistics and scriptions in order to keep up with shrinking budgets and rising prices. Humor The effects of these changes can be seen clearly in the figures of the Treasurer’s 6 Obituary: George Casella report (see IMS Bulletin, June/July 2012): The number of members who still take print copies of our journals has gone down by 50–70% over 10 years, the number of 7 In Search of a Statistical institutional subscriptions has gone down by approximately 10% over 10 years, and Culture the total number of members (excluding free members) is also declining slowly since 8 Recent papers: Statistics 2007. The decrease of print subscriptions by members is not a concern in itself, since Surveys; Electronic Journal of the price is just the actual cost of printing and shipping, but it does show that we need Statistics other reasons for people to join IMS. There is still the reduction in registration fees for 9 Meeting report: ICCS-12 meetings, but many of the services that IMS provides to the community are available 10 Anirban's Angle: also to non-members. It is therefore important to realize that without a strong IMS, Understanding Citation probabilists and statisticians will suffer in their work units relative to their colleagues Indices in fields with strong professional societies. The IMS Presidents (current, past and elect) 11 Refereeing and are trying to make IMS membership more attractive, especially for new researchers, for psychoanalysis instance by the creation of the new IMS Travel Award. If you have other suggestions about what we could do, please let us know. 12 Statistics 2013 Decreases in the numbers of institutional subscriptions and of 13 Terence’s Stuff: 0.886 and members threaten to weaken our financial basis of IMS because All That they are our main sources of income. The decrease is presumably 14 IMS meetings more severe than the figures suggest because during the last 10 years, the number of universities and individuals who engage in 20 Other meetings research in probability and statistics has increased. At the moment, 25 Employment Opportunities there is no need to worry: Through a careful control of expenses 27 International Calendar of and a moderate rise in subscription and membership fees, we have Statistical Events been able to overcome the last financial crisis and to build up reserves slightly above our total expenses 31 Information for Advertisers of one year. This should protect us against Are all the IMS journals available in your library? Ask another financial crisis or sudden drastic your friendly librarian, if not! Continues on page 4 IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 42 . Issue 2 Volume 42 • Issue 2 March 2013 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Peter Hall honored in Australia Contact information On 26 January, former IMS President Peter Hall was named an IMS Bulletin Editor: Dimitris Politis Officer (AO) in the General Division of Order of Australia. His Assistant Editor: Tati Howell citation reads, “For distinguished service to mathematical science in Contributing Editors: the field of statistics through international contributions to research, as Peter Bickel, Anirban DasGupta, Nicole Lazar, Xiao-Li Meng, Terry Speed an academic and mentor, and through leadership of advisory and pro- fessional organisations.” Peter is Professor of Statistics and Australian Peter Hall Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: Laureate Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University e [email protected] of California, Davis. Previously, from 1988 to 2006, he was Professor of Statistics at the w http://bulletin.imstat.org Australian National University. See http://www.gg.gov.au/australia-day-2013-honours-lists Contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or Jayanta K Ghosh Honorary Degree IMS Treasurer Jean Opsomer change of address: Jayanta K. Ghosh, Purdue University, has IMS Council has reappointed Jean IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office received an honorary DSc degree from Opsomer as Treasurer for a further term 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 the Indian Statistical Institute. He was from 2013–2016. He has been Treasurer USA presented with the degree at the 47th ISI since August 2010. Jean’s website: http:// t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] Convocation in Calcutta in January. www.stat.colostate.edu/~jopsomer/ t +1 216 295 5661[international] f +1 301 634 7099 J.P. Morgan named Assistant Dean in the College of Science at Virginia Tech e [email protected] J.P. Morgan, professor of statistics, has been appointed to assistant dean for graduate studies and strategic initiatives in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. Morgan has been a fac- Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright ulty member in the Department of Statistics since his arrival at Virginia Tech in 2000 and permission, offprint orders, copyright was previously a professor at Old Dominion University, and a visitor to the Isaac Newton transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Institute for Mathematical Sciences; Queen Mary University of London; and Goldsmith’s nominations and content of publications: College, University of London. He is an associate editor of The American Statistician, and Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson past AE of JASA and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. IMS Business Office PO Box 22718, Beachwood NISS News OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) named Robert Rodriguez from SAS t +1 216 295 5661[international] Institute to the Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2013. Karen f +1 216 295 5661 Kafadar, Indiana University and Fritz Scheuren, NORC at the University of Chicago, e [email protected] were also elected for a second three-year term. Mary Batcher, Ernst & Young, and Tim Hesterberg, Google, were also elected. Robert Rodriguez is Senior Director of R&D for Executive Committee SAS Institute, Cary, NC. He has long been active with the NISS affiliates program, of President: Hans R. Künsch which SAS is one of the original members. [email protected] Rodriguez has been with SAS Institute President-Elect: Bin Yu [email protected] since 1983, after spending six years as Past President: Ruth Williams staff research scientist at General Motors. [email protected] Rodriguez was ASA president last year. Treasurer: Jean Opsomer During its reception and dinner, the [email protected] Board also recognized Alan Karr, director Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] of NISS, his twenty-and-counting years at Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle NISS (pictured right, with the NISS Chair [email protected] Susan Ellenberg). Alan Karr and Susan Ellenberg = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications March . 2013 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Peter Hall and Runze Li http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Stephen Fienberg http://imstat.org/aoas More IMS Members’ News http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Krzysztof Burdzy http://imstat.org/aop American Math Society’s inaugural Fellows http://projecteuclid.org/aop The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has named their inaugural class of Fellows: Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen AMS members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, http://imstat.org/aap http://projecteuclid.org/aoap advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Among this group were 35 Statistical Science: Jon Wellner IMS Fellows: David Aldous, University of California, Berkeley; Martin Barlow, University http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss of British Columbia; Richard F. Bass, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Krzysztof Burdzy, IMS Collections University of Washington; Donald L. Burkholder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm Herman Chernoff, Harvard University; Arthur Herbert Copeland, University of New http://projecteuclid.org/imsc Hampshire; Donald A. Dawson, Carleton University; Persi W. Diaconis, Stanford University; IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox http://imstat.org/cup/ David L. Donoho, Stanford University; Richard M. Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Richard Durrett, Duke University; Eugene B. Dynkin, Cornell University; Steven IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications N. Evans Stuart Alan Geman Ronald , University of California, Berkeley; , Brown University; Electronic Journal of Statistics: George Michailidis K. Getoor, University of California, San Diego; Luis G. Gorostiza, Centro de Investigación y http://imstat.org/ejs de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV); Richard F. Gundy, http://projecteuclid.org/ejs Electronic Journal of Probability: Michel Ledoux Rutgers The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick; Peter J. Huber; Robert V. Kohn, http://ejp.ejpecp.org New York University, Courant Institute; Gregory F.