Volume 46 • Issue 6 IMS Bulletin September 2017 JSM 2017 in Baltimore The 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, which included the CONTENTS IMS Annual Meeting, took place from July 29 to August 3. There were over 6,000 1 JSM round-up participants from 52 countries, and more than 600 sessions. Among the IMS program highlights were the three Wald Lectures given by Emmanuel Candès, and the Blackwell 2–3 Members’ News: ASA Fellows; ICM speakers; David Allison; Lecture by Martin Wainwright—Xiao-Li Meng writes about how inspirational these Mike Cohen; David Cox lectures (among others) were, on page 10. There were also five Medallion lectures, from Edoardo Airoldi, Emery Brown, Subhashis Ghoshal, Mark Girolami and Judith 4 COPSS Awards winners and nominations Rousseau. Next year’s IMS lectures 6 JSM photos At the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session (you can read Jon Wellner’s 8 Anirban’s Angle: The State of address in the next issue), the IMS lecturers for 2018 were announced. The Wald the World, in a few lines lecturer will be Luc Devroye, the Le Cam lecturer will be Ruth Williams, the Neyman Peter Bühlmann Yuval Peres 10 Obituary: Joseph Hilbe lecture will be given by , and the Schramm lecture by . The Medallion lecturers are: Jean Bertoin, Anthony Davison, Anna De Masi, Svante Student Puzzle Corner; 11 Janson, Davar Khoshnevisan, Thomas Mikosch, Sonia Petrone, Richard Samworth Loève Prize and Ming Yuan. 12 XL-Files: The IMS Style— Next year’s JSM invited sessions Inspirational, Mathematical If you’re feeling inspired by what you heard at JSM, you can help to create the 2018 and Statistical invited program for the meeting in Vancouver (July 28–August 2, 2018). Submit an 14 Recent papers: Annals of invited session proposal at http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/submissions. Probability; Annals of cfm#invited. But hurry: the deadline is September 6, 2017. Applied Probability Turn to pages 4–7 for photos from the conference (and a few more on pages 15 Meetings 12–13). The JSM2017 program is online at http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2017/ 19 Employment Opportunities onlineprogram/index.cfm. 20 International Calendar of A poster session in the Expo Hall Meetings 23 Information for Advertisers Read it online: bulletin.imstat.org IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 46 . 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See [email protected] https://news.iu.edu/stories/2017/06/iub/releases/16-sph-dean-announcement.html = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications September . 2017 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Ed George and Tailen Hsing http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Tilmann Gneiting http://imstat.org/aoas More Members’ News http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Maria Eulalia Vares http://imstat.org/aop Mike Cohen MAA’s representative-at-large http://projecteuclid.org/aop Longtime IMS member Michael P. Cohen has been elected Annals of Applied Probability: Bálint Tóth http://imstat.org/aap representative-at-large for business, industry and government, to http://projecteuclid.org/aoap the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Congress with Statistical Science: Cun-Hui Zhang three-year term beginning February 1, 2018. Mike is a Principal http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss Statistician at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). He has IMS Collections over 35 years’ experience in complex survey design and estimation, http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm http://projecteuclid.org/imsc including sample design, imputation, variances, sample size and Mike Cohen IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox power determination, and weighting. This experience includes seven http://imstat.org/cup/ years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, working on sampling and estimation for the US IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Consumer Price Index and the US Consumer Expenditure Surveys. He spent 13 years at Publications the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the US Department of Education, Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci http://imstat.org/ejs and seven years at the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the last four as their Assistant http://projecteuclid.org/ejs Director for Survey Programs. Mike has served as President of the Washington Academy Electronic Journal of Probability: Brian Rider of Sciences and of the Washington Statistical Society. He was the Treasurer of the Survey http://ejp.ejpecp.org Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association for 2015–16. He is an Electronic Communications in Probability: Sandrine Péché associate editor of the Journal of Official Statisticsand a contributing editor for the Journal http://ecp.ejpecp.org of Experimental Education. He has been an associate editor for the Journal of the American Current Index to Statistics: George Styan http://www.statindex.org Statistical Association, Applications and Case Studies. log into members' area at imstat.org Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: International Prize in Statistics presented to David Cox Diane Cook http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs As we previously reported, IMS Fellow Sir David Cox was named the inaugural recipient log into