Volume 32 Issue 5 IMS Bulletin September/October 2003 Reports Galore! In this issue we have meeting reports from: ➤ CONTENTS the IMS sponsored New Researchers Conference (Davis, 2 Members’ News; CA) on page 5 Contacting the IMS ➤ IMS sponsored mini-meetings 4 Extrapolate Yourself! on Functional Data Analysis (Florida) on page 7, 5 Meeting Reports: NRC, Non/semi-parametric Models Statistics for Mathematical and and Sequential Analysis, Computational Finance (Con- Functional Data Analysis, necticut) on page 7 Statistics for Mathematical and Computational Finance, IMS- and Non/semi-parametric ISBA Models and Sequential Analysis (Kentucky) on page 6 9 Laha Award and others: calls for entries ➤ First Joint IMS-ISBA meeting (Puerto Rico) on page 8 10 COPSS Awards at JSM 11 Obituary: Howard Levene We also have the Dues for 2004 Executive, Committee and Editors’ reports, 13 IMS Fellows Nomination presented to Council at the 66th 15 IMS Annual Reports IMS Annual Meeting, which took San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (foreground) 30 IMS Meetings place at the Joint Statistical Meet- ings in San Francisco, in August. 34 Other Meetings and Announcements Terry Speed introduces the “Extrapolate Yourself!” membership drive on 37 Employment page 4 (see below). And if you’re looking for a new position, turn to page Opportunities 37: we have 38 job adverts from around the world. 49 International Calendar of Statistical Events Included with this issue: 51 Information for Advertisers Extrapolate Yourself! Please put this poster up on your departmental bulletin board, in your offi ce, on the number bus, wherever you think it will attract attention. See Terry Speed’s article on page for more information… IMS 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 32 . Issue 5 September/October . 2003 IMS Bulletin . 3 Bulletin Volume 32, Issue 4 News from IMS members July/August 2003 ISSN 1544-1881 Alan Agresti Named ASA Statistician of the Year e Chicago Chapter of the American an Honorary Doctor of Science from De Statistical Association has declared Alan Montfort University, UK, and he is a Fellow Contact Agresti is ‘ Statistician of the Year’. of the American Statistical Association. Information He will receive his award and speak on Agresti’s primary research interests are Binomial Confidence Intervals at a dinner in in categorical data analysis. Most recently To contact the IMS Bulletin: his honor in Chicago on October . he has worked on small sample confidence Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman Distinguished Professor of Statistics intervals for binomial proportions and Assistant Editor Tati Howell at the University of Florida, Professor odds ratios, and models for repeated Agresti earned his bachelor’s degree at the categorical responses. His most recent book Submissions in MS Word (.doc) or University of Rochester, and his doctorate is Categorical Data Analysis (nd edition, plain text (.txt) please. at the University of Wisconsin. He received Wiley, ). Send by email: [email protected] or mail: IMS Bulletin Bhattacharya receives LNMS honor 20 Shadwell The photo shows the presentation of a Uley, Dursley dedicated collection of papers published in GL11 5BW the IMS Lecture Notes–Monograph Series, UK vol 41, to Professor Rabi Bhattacharya during the IMA Workshop, Probability and Partial Differential Equations in Modern Applied Mathematics, in July. To contact the IMS regarding your dues, To order a copy at the special IMS member price of $24 (non-member price is $40) please send your payment to the IMS Dues and Subscriptions office (address in panel on left) or order membership, subscriptions, orders or online at the IMS website http://www.imstat.org/orders change of address: Oded Schramm Awarded 2003 Loève Prize Institute of Mathematical Statistics David Aldous writes: Dues and Subscriptions Office e Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2310 is awarded to Oded Schramm of Microsoft Research. e prize, which carries a monetary Bethesda, award of ,, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley on October . MD 20814-3998 Oded Schramm received Lawler and W. 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IMS Bulletin Volume 32 . Issue 5 September/October . 2003 IMS Bulletin . 3 Executive Committee President Terry Speed Chris Heyde awarded Membership of the Order of Australia [email protected] President-Elect Louis Chen In the Australia Day Honours, IMS Fellow Professor Chris Heyde was awarded [email protected] Membership of the Order of Australia (AM). is award is intended to recognize Past President Raghu Varadhan contributions to Australian society and it is a rare recognition for [email protected] professionals from the less publicly visible areas. e citation reads that it was “For service to mathematics, particularly for research in Executive Secretary Alicia Carriquiry statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these [email protected] disciplines”. Treasurer Julia Norton Chris currently holds academic posts at the Australian National [email protected] University (ANU) and Columbia University in New York. He has Program Secretary Andrew Nobel been Foundation Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at [email protected] ANU and Foundation Director of the Key Center for Statistical Sciences in Melbourne. He has edited e Australian Journal of Statistics, Stochastic Processes IMS Editors and their Applications and Journal of Applied Probability, and Advances in Applied Probability Annals of Statistics Jon Wellner (– ). [email protected] He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has been its Vice-President and & John Marden Treasurer. He has also served as President of the Statistical Society of Australia and of the [email protected] Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Annals of Probability Steven Lalley His research on probability and its statistical applications has been honoured by the award [email protected] of the Pitman Medal, Hannan Medal, Lyle Medal, and an honorary DSc degree by the Annals of Applied Probability University of Sydney. Robert Adler [email protected] Statistical Science George Casella Nan M Laird receives Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in [email protected] the Statistical Sciences IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series Joel Greenhouse e School of Public Health at e University of Alabama at [email protected] Birmingham is pleased to announce that IMS Fellow Nan Laird is Managing Editor - Statistics this year’s recipient of the Janet L. Norwood Award for outstanding Paul Shaman achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. e school [email protected] wishes not only to recognize Dr. Laird’s achievements, but also to Managing Editor - Probability recognize the contribution of all women to the statistical sciences. Michael Phelan It is noteworthy that women have been traditionally under- [email protected] represented in many fields of science, with the degree of under- Electronic Journal of Probability representation greater for the quantitative sciences. e award will Ted Cox be conferred at UAB on October , : Dr Laird will deliver a lecture at the award [email protected] ceremony. Electronic Communications in Probability After receiving a bachelor’s degree in statistics at the University of Georgia, Dr Laird Martin Barlow [email protected] received her PhD in Statistics from Harvard University in . She immediately joined the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health as an Assistant Managing Editor - EJP/ECP Zhen-Qing Chen Professor, culminating in full professorship in , where she is today. Dr Laird has [email protected] been named the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, and she chaired IMS Bulletin Bernard Silverman the Department of Biostatistics from to . Her research has made important & Tati Howell contributions in the statistical sciences including, but not limited to, the development of [email protected] statistical methods for the analysis of incomplete data, longitudinal regression and statistical Web Editor Hemant Ishwaran genetics. Dr Laird is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of [email protected] Sciences and the American Statistical Association. Associate Program Secretary Maury Bramson [email protected] 4 .