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Volume 43 • Issue 8 IMS Bulletin December 2014 IMS President’s Message CONTENTS Erwin Bolthausen became IMS President in July. He shares his thoughts on the future 1 IMS President’s Message of the institute: The IMS is extremely successful as a scientific society, 2 Members’ News: Trevor Hastie, David Anderson, mainly as a scientific publisher, and also with its Kathryn Chaloner; Book important conferences. The institute is also very cost series news effective, which results in quite low prices for its top journals. When I was editor of 3 National Medals of Science Probability Theory and Related Fields (PTRF), we were fighting with 4 ASA awards: Ray Carroll, Springer, its publisher, about lowering the high price Frank Harrell, Arnab Maity, of this journal, by arguing that the price per page of Christopher McMahan, PTRF surpassed that of the Annals of Probability by a Sastry Pantula, Madan Puri, factor of 17. This did make Springer knock it down; I Erwin Bolthausen Joshua Tebbs think the factor is now about five. 5 COPSS award nominations Although at present things in IMS are running perfectly, there may well be some problems in the future, and the Institute will do well to think about and prepare for a 6 Robert Adler: TOPOS part III number of potential issues ahead. I present here some personal thoughts on topics which 8 Medallion preview: Tilmann in my view are important. Gneiting; ENAR address The most severe problems that IMS will probably be faced with in the coming years David DeMets are to do with the rapid changes in the field of scientific publishing. Already income 9 Contribute to IMS from subscriptions is slowly decreasing, which, for the moment, can easily be offset by slight increases in our prices. The reason for this decrease in subscriptions seems evident 10 Obituary: Jagdish Rustagi and unavoidable: Formerly, many universities had more than one subscription, one for 11 Vlada’s Point: A Workshop the central library, and then another, or several more, for individual institutes. That is no 12 Recent papers: Statistical longer necessary. Science; Bernoulli Apart from this rather minor problem, there is a lot of insecurity about the further 13 Student Puzzle Corner 7 development of mathematical and statistical publishing, and of course publishing in sci- ence, generally. One has also to be aware that our situation considerably differs from that IMS meetings 15 in other fields of science, like in biology, where the relevance of a publication is decaying 18 Other meetings much faster than in our fields. Therefore, the experience of others is only of rather limited relevance for us. The one big problem we are facing is that, evidently, the journals nowa- 21 Employment Opportunities days are of much less relevance for the reader than they used to be. They are of course still 32 International Calendar of tremendous importance for young authors who need publications in highly estimated 35 Information for Advertisers journals for getting a job. There are many visions around how the system could change. Commercial publishers, like Springer, come up with the idea to get journals financed to a large extent by publica- tion charges, and no longer so much by subscriptions, hoping that science foundations are Read it online at strict with an open access policy. Another idea is that scientific publishing in its present http://bulletin.imstat.org form could be abandoned completely, and the refereeing process could be replaced by open electronic discussions, for instance in the arXiv. I myself don’t believe that this Continues on page 5 IMSBulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 43 . Issue 8 Volume 43 • Issue 8 December 2014 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Contact information Trevor Hastie awarded Parzen Prize David F. Anderson Awarded Inaugural IMA IMS Bulletin Editor: Anirban DasGupta The 2014 Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize Prize in Mathematics and its Applications Assistant Editor: Tati Howell for Statistical Innovation was awarded The Institute for Mathematics and its Contributing Editors: Robert Adler, Peter to Trevor J. Hastie, John A. Overdeck Applications (IMA) has awarded David Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Stanford F. Anderson, assistant professor in the Politis, Terry Speed and Hadley Wickham University, on November 6. He presented Department of Mathematics at the a lecture titled “Sparse Linear Models.” The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: award was for “pioneering, influential, and inaugural IMA Prize in Mathematics and e [email protected] w http://bulletin.imstat.org outstanding research in statistical methodology its Applications. The prize was awarded https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI and computational methods for statistics, at the opening of the fourth annual Abel including principle curves, generalized additive Conference on October 31, 2014. Contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or models, object-based computations for statistical David said on hearing about the award, change of address: models in S and R, least angle regression, “I was shocked and happy. It is an honor to IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office graphical lasso, the elastic net for variable be recognized by your peers, and I am truly 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A selection, and many other contributions to grateful.” David received this recognition Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA statistical methods; leadership in developing for his contributions to numerical methods t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] computational methods at the interface of for stochastic models in biology and to the t +1 216 295 5661[international] computer science and statistics for the analysis mathematical theory of biological interaction f +1 301 634 7099 of large data sets and for statistical learning.” networks. His work on numerical methods, e [email protected] in particular how to utilize different math- Kathryn Chaloner, 1954–2014 ematical representations to construct and Contact the IMS regarding any other matter, including advertising, copyright Kathryn Chaloner, professor and head analyze numerical schemes, is changing the permission, offprint orders, copyright of the University of Iowa Department landscape of computational systems biology. transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows of Biostatistics, died October 19 after a Read more about David Anderson nominations and content of publications: long battle with cancer. Dean Sue Curry and the prize at http://www.ima.umn.edu/ Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson said, “The courage and determination that publications/ima-prize-winner2014.html IMS Business Office Kathryn demonstrated throughout her PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA illness also defined her as a distinguished ASA awards for IMS members t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] leader, researcher, colleague, mentor, and At the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings in t +1 216 295 5661[international] friend.” She added, “Perhaps Kathryn’s most Boston, the American Statistical Association f +1 216 295 5661 lasting legacy … will be her dedication to the presented several awards. Among the e [email protected] twin principles of mentorship and diversity. recipients were Raymond J. Carroll, Frank Kathryn was a passionate advocate for E. Harrell Jr., Arnab Maity, Christopher S. Executive Committee women, junior faculty, and students.” McMahan, Sastry G. Pantula, Madan L. Puri, President: Erwin Bolthausen Read a tribute by Richard Smith and and Joshua M. Tebbs. [email protected] Snehalata Huzurbazar on the SAMSI blog. You can read more about the awards and President-Elect: Richard Davis [email protected] An obituary will follow soon. recipients on page 4. Past President: Bin Yu [email protected] Editors’ terms extended for IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks Treasurer: Jean Opsomer The IMS Committee to Select Editors has staggered the terms of theIMS Monographs and [email protected] IMS Textbooks editorial board as follows: Susan Holmes is now Algorithms Editor until the Program Secretary: Judith Rousseau [email protected] end of 2015; David Cox is Coordinating Editor through the end of 2016; Ben Hambly is Executive Secretary: Aurore Delaigle Probability Editor to the end of 2017. Jon Wellner is to become the new Statistics Editor for [email protected] four years (January 1, 2015–December 31, 2018). See http://imstat.org/cup/default.htm = access published papers online December . 2014 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: Peter Hall and Runze Li http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Stephen Fienberg US National Medals of Science http://imstat.org/aoas http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Peter Bickel writes: Of the nine National Medals of Science awarded by President Obama this Annals of Probability: Krzysztof Burdzy http://imstat.org/aop year, three were in what I view, ecumenically, as the mathematical, information and data sci- http://projecteuclid.org/aop ences. The medals are awarded to David Blackwell, posthumously, to Annals of Applied Probability: Timo Seppäläinen http://imstat.org/aap Alexandre Chorin and to Thomas Kailath. Of these, David Blackwell’s http://projecteuclid.org/aoap is close to the hearts of our community. Blackwell’s National Medal Statistical Science: Peter Green of Science is apparently the very first such medal awarded after the http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss recipient’s death was known. IMS Collections Blackwell died July 8, 2010 at the age of 91. At the time of his http://imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm death he was Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Mathematics at the http://projecteuclid.org/imsc David Blackwell IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: David Cox University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the foremost statisti- http://imstat.org/cup/ cians and probability theorists in the world—contributing not only to mathematical statistics IMS Co-sponsored Journals and and probability theory but also to game theory, information theory and mathematical logic.

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