Program Secretary's Annual Report for 2009{2010 IMS sponsored the following meetings: IMS Annual Meeting / Joint Statistical Meetings Washington, DC, August 2-6, 2009 IMS Program Chairs: Michael Koroso and Xiaotong Shen IMS Contributed Papers Chair: Ji Zhu 2010 ENAR/IMS Spring Meetings New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21{24, 2010 IMS Program Chairs: Marie Davidian and Hao Helen Zhang IMS Annual Meeting Gothenburg, Sweden, August 9{13, 2010 IMS Program Chair: Peter Hall 2010 WNAR/IMS Meeting Seattle, Washington, June 20{23, 2010 IMS Program Chair: Brenda Kurland Thirteenth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Proba- bility Vancouver, Canada, July 27{30, 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings Vancouver, Canada, August 1{5, 2010 IMS Program Chair: Regina Liu IMS Contributed Papers Chair: Mu Zhu IMS co-sponsored the following meetings: Stats in the Chateaau Versailles, France, August 31{September 4, 2009 XI Latin American Congress of Probability and Statistics (XI CLAPEM) Club Puerto Azul in Naiguata, Venezuela, November 1{6, 2009 1 IMS Representative: Maria Eulalia Vares International Conference on Frontiers of Interface between Statis- tics and Sciences in Honor of CR Rao's 90th Birthday Hyderabad, India, December 31, 2009{January 2, 2010 IMS Representatives: S. Rao Jammalamadaka, S. Pantula, S. Ghosh International Conference on Statistics, Probability, Operations Research, Computer Science and Allied Areas Visakhapatnam, India, January 4{8, 2010 IMS Representatives: N. Balakrishnan, Hira Koul, Soumendra Nath Lahiri Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2010 Univ. of Central Florida, March 11-13, 2010 Conference on Frontier of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis - In Honor of James O. Berger San Antonio, Texas, March 17{20, 2010 IMS Representative: Dipak K. Dey 2010 UIUC Statistics Symposium Champaign, Illinois, March 29{30, 2010 IMS Representative: Xuming He AISTATS 2010 (Artificial Intelligence and Statistics) Chia Laguna Resort, Sardinia, May 13{15, 2010 IMS Representative: Michael Titterington Model Uncertainty Warwick, United Kingdom, May 30{June 1, 2010 IMS Representative: Dario Spano Statistical Science - Making a Difference Wisconsin, Madison, June 3{4, 2010 IMS Representatives: Rich Johnson, Kjell Doksum, Grace Wahba 2 From Markov Processes to Brownian Motion and Beyond - An International Conference in Memory of Kai Lai Chung Beijing, China, June 13{16, 2010 IMS Representatives: Louis Chen, Zhen-Qing Chen, Jim Dai, Zhi-Ming Ma, Ruth Williams Modeling High Frequency Data in Finance II Hoboken, New Jersey, June 24{27, 2010 IMS Representatives: Ionut Florescu, Frederi Viens ICORS 2010, International Conference on Robust Statistics Prague, Czech Republic, June 28{July 2, 2010 IMS Representative: Xuming He 5th International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP 2010) Madrid, Spain, July 5{8, 2010 IMS Representative: Joseph Glaz International Conference on Statistics and Society Beijing, China, July 10{12, 2010 IMS Representative: Harrison Zhu Orthogonal Polynomials, Applications in Statistics and Stochastic Processes Warwick, United Kingdom, July 12-15, 2010 IMS Representative: Dario Spano 6th Cornell Probability Summer School Ithaca, New York, July 18{31, 2009 3 AAP Annual Report In the period 1. January 2009 ‐‐ 31. December 2009 the Annals of Applied Probability received 279 submissions. 17 were withdrawn by the authors, 169 were rejected (16 with the possibility of resubmission), 51 were accepted, and 42 are still in the system (some awaiting the authors' revision). The median time to process those rejected was 2 months, and the 75th percentile 5 months; the median time to acceptance, including revision, was 7.5 months. This year, we have had 159 submissions in the first 6 months, an increase of around 15%. Based on the October lineup, papers spend about 4.5 months between acceptance and the proofs being sent to the authors, and 5 months between the proofs being received back until printing. Half the authors send the proofs back promptly; the remaining half take a month or more to do so. As can be deduced from the figures above, Rick Durrett and Ed Waymire have done a terrific job in restoring the journal to good working order, following the abrupt departure of the previous editor. The editorial board has increased in size, and currently consists of Rami Atar, Jinho Baik, Erwin Bolthausen, Krzysztof Burdzy, Brigitte Chauvin, Zhenqing Chen, Luc Devroye, Ron Doney, Rick Durrett, Jim Fill, Jean‐Pierre Fouque, Peter Friz, David Gamarnik, Carl Graham, Alexander Holroyd, Steve Krone, David Levin, Eyal Lubetzky, Jean Mairesse, Soumik Pal, Mathew Penrose, Philip Protter, Kavita Ramanan, Marty Reiman, Chris Rogers, Jason Schweinsberg, Qi‐Man Shao, Vladas Sidoravicius, Mete Soner, Prasad Tetali, Enrique Thomann and Ruth Williams. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Annual Report For 2009, Annals of Applied Statistics AOAS, the Annals of Applied Statistics, completed its third volume in December of 2009. The December issue, at about 600 pages, was the fattest so far, reflecting a sharp jump in submissions: from 286 in 2007 and 274 in 2008 to 352 last year. Noteworthy in December was a discussion paper by Gabor Szekely and Maria Rizzo, organized by our biomedical editor Michael Newton. It might seem impossible to make major advances in the correlation coefficient after a century of development, but Szekely and Rizzo have devised a new, simple measure that equals zero only under independence, not being fooled by non-normal distributions of zero Pearson correlation. Also attracting considerable attention was Keith Baggerly and Kevin Coombes' article on "forensic bioinformatics", in which it was shown how poor documentation had undercut the validity of some highly publicized medical studies - leading to the temporary suspension of several such studies. Leading off the 2009 volume was a special section on Statistics and Astronomy, organized by Thomas Loredo, John Rice, and the AOAS physical science editor Michael Stein. Like the Fellowship of the Ring, the original Editors of AOAS are now departing: Karen Kafadar at Indiana University has succeeded Michael Newton as Editor for Biology, Medicine, and Genomics. (This area gets about 40% of our sub- missions.) Stephen Fienberg will end his term as founding Editor for Social Science, Government, and Economics in the Fall, to be succeeded by Susan Paddock of the RAND corporation. And Michael Stein is stepping down as founding Editor for Physical Science, Computation, Engineering, and the Environment at the end of 2010. Tilmann Gneiting, of Heidelberg University, our first European based editor, will be his successor. Sam Kou, of Harvard, has succeeded Karen as Editor for General Topics, a new category that reflects the increasingly diverse range of applied topics we are publishing. (Bradley Efron is continuing as Editor-in-Chief for a second term, that began in January of this year.) AOAS has gotten off to a good start - with a first Impact Rating placing it in the top four among statistics journals - due to the hard work of Steve, Michael, and Michael, and the IMS is greatly in their debt. The increased rate of submissions has continued in 2010, perhaps even more heavily than in 2009. The January issue, which included a special section on network modeling, was almost as bulky as December's, and we anticipate needing about 2400 pages total for 2010, just to keep the backlog in check. We believe that we can continue at four issues per year, but that assumes no substantial increase in submissions. 2009 Impact Factor (Rank among 100 indexed statistics journals this year.) Rank Journal Name Total cites IF 5 year IF 1 ECONOMETRICA 20643 4 5.321 2 STATISTICAL SCIENCE 2857 3.523 3.719 5 ANNALS OF STATISTICS 11878 3.185 3.96 6 ANNALS APPLIED STATS 245 2.571 2.582 9 JASA 20867 2.322 3.754 15 STATS IN MEDICINE 11619 1.99 2.227 18 BIOMETRICS 13768 1.867 2.401 -- Bradley Efron 7/9/2010 Gmail - updated report AoP Institute of Mathematical Statistics <[email protected]> updated report AoP 1 message Annals of Probability <[email protected]> Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:54 AM To: elyse gustafson <[email protected]> In the period July 16 2009 -- June 15 2010 t he AoP received 284 submissions. 20 were withdrawn by the authors (mostly, due to submissions to the wrong journal). Of the 413 papers received since January 1 2009, 25 were withdrawn by the authors, 202 were rejected, 13 were rejected with possible resubmission, and 60 were accepted. 99 are still in review and a revision was requested on an addi tional 14. I expect the eventual acceptance rate to be in the range of 22-28%. A memorial issue for J. L. Doob, assembled by G. Grimmett and D. Yilvisaker, has appeared. A memorial issue for O. Schramm is being assembled by I. Benjamini, and I expect it to appear toward the end of 2011. A memorial issue for T. Harris is being assembled by K. Alexander and P. Baxendale. Delay from acceptance to publication seems to be bet ween 9 and 12 m onths. The requested page budget for 2011 is similar to 2010. https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik… 1/1 The Annals of Statistics, 2010 Annual Report Peter B¨uhlmann and Tony Cai, Editors SUBMISSIONS: We received 505 submissions in 2009 remaining high relative to the historical norm (in comparison to 319, 362, 323, 343, 397, 479 and 490 in 2002{2008, re- spectively). Our editorial policy continues to emphasize that The Annals of Statistics aims at publishing research papers of highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary statistics, including all mathematical, methodological, computational and interdisciplinary work. An overview is shown in Figure 1. 0 100 200 300 400 500 505 338 96 94 64 total rejected accepted revision resubmission Figure 1: Submissions in 2009. ACCEPTANCE RATE: During 2009, we made 96 acceptance, 338 rejection, 94 re- quests for revision (major/minor) and 64 rejections with encouragement to resubmit.