Volume 49 • Issue 5 IMS Bulletin August 2020 IMS Election Results We are pleased to announce the 2020 election results, and CONTENTS introduce the newly elected members of IMS Council. 1 Election results The next President-Elect is Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy, and the five new members of Council are: Tony Cai, Richard 2 Members’ news: Michael Jordan; Travel Award winners Davis, Alice Guionnet, Martin Wainwright and Fang Yao. All of them will serve a three-year term, starting at the IMS COPSS Fisher Award; 4 Council and Business meeting which will be held online Members work on COVID-19 Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy this year, on September 1. 5 Bernoulli–IMS World The new Council members will be joining 10 other Council members: Christina Symposium Goldschmidt, Susan Holmes, Xihong Lin, Richard Lockhart and Kerrie Mengersen, 6 Takis Tackles: Mathematical who will serve another year; and Ed Perkins, Gesine Reinert, Christian Robert, Higher Education Qi-Man Shao and Alastair Young, who will be on Council for another two years. 8 Nominate an IMS Special Peter Hoff, Greg Lawler, Antonietta Mira, Axel Munk and Byeong Park will be Lecturer for 2022/2023 stepping down after their three-year terms on Council. Council is also made up of the Executive Committee members and Editors. From 9 Scientific Legacy Project the coming IMS online meeting, the Executive Committee will be made up of Regina 10 Recent papers: Bayesian Liu as President, Susan Murphy as Past President, Chris Burdzy as President-Elect, Analysis; Brazilian Journal of Zhengjun Zhang as Treasurer, Ming Yuan as Program Secretary, and Edsel Peña as Probability and Statistics Executive Secretary. Xiao-Li Meng will be leaving the Executive Committee after his 11 Student Puzzle Corner three year term. The Editors are Francois Delarue and Peter Friz (Annals of Applied 12 Obituaries: Thomas Liggett, Probability), Amir Dembo (Annals of Probability), Karen Kafadar (Annals of Applied Clifford Spiegelman, Statistics), Richard Samworth and Ming Yuan (Annals of Statistics), Sonia Petrone Kenneth Russell, Roger Farrell (Statistical Science) and Bob Keener (Managing Editor). Thanks to all the Council candidates, to the outgoing members of the committees 16 Radu’s Rides: The Road Less Traveled and Council, and to all of you who voted. Norwood Award; Royal 17 Tony Cai Alice Guionnet Fang Yao Statistical Society exchange session; Akaike Award 18 ACM/IMS journal seeks new Editors-in-Chief 19 Meetings (including online) 23 Employment Opportunities 24 Calendar of Meetings 27 Information for Advertisers Read it online: imstat.org/news Richard Davis Martin Wainwright IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 49 . Issue 5 Volume 49 • Issue 5 August 2020 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Michael Jordan awarded IEEE’s John von Neumann Medal Contact information The 2020 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, given for outstanding achievements in com- IMS Bulletin Editor: Tati Howell puter-related science and technology, and sponsored by IBM Corporation, is presented to [email protected] IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan, “For contributions to machine learning and data science.” Managing Editor: Bob Keener You can watch a short video about the award at https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/ Contributing Editors: honors-2020-michael-i-jordan-wins-the-ieee-john-von-neumann-medal Radu Craiu, Anirban DasGupta, Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstantopou- IEEE, an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for los, Xiao-Li Meng, Regina Nuzzo, Kavita the benefit of humanity, is the world’s largest technical professional society. It is designed to Ramanan and Terry Speed serve professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic, and computing fields w https://imstat.org/news and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization. https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI https://twitter.com/InstMathStat IMS New Researcher Travel Awards The 2020 IMS New Researcher Awards fund travel, and possibly other expenses, to present IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting for those who otherwise Contact the IMS regarding your dues, would not be able to attend the meeting. 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Mitani, Harvard T. H. Chan Mohamed Ndaoud, University of Jonathan Niles-Weed, New York [email protected] Florida School of Public Health Southern California University Past President: Xiao-Li Meng [email protected] Treasurer: Zhengjun Zhang [email protected] Program Secretary: Ming Yuan [email protected] Executive Secretary: Edsel Peña Jiangyan Wang, Nanjing Audit Miaoyan Wang, University of Tianying Wang, Columbia University Perhaps you, next year? [email protected] University, China Wisconsin–Madison = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications August . 2020 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Ming Yuan, Richard Samworth https://imstat.org/aos https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Karen Kafadar https://imstat.org/aoas IMS Hannan Travel Awards https://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Amir Dembo https://imstat.org/aop Meet the 24 graduate student members who have been selected to receive an IMS Hannan https://projecteuclid.org/aop Travel Award this year, so they can attend an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Annals of Applied Probability: Francois Delarue, Peter Friz https://imstat.org/aap https://projecteuclid.org/aoap Statistical Science: Sonia Petrone https://imstat.org/sts https://projecteuclid.org/ss IMS Collections https://projecteuclid.org/imsc IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: Nancy Reid https://www.imstat.org/journals-and- Chitrak Banerjee, Michigan State Zhanrui Cai, Penn State University Yaqing Chen, University of California, Will A. Eagan, Purdue University University Davis publications/ims-monographs/ IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications Electronic Journal of Statistics: Domenico Marinucci https://imstat.org/ejs https://projecteuclid.org/ejs Electronic Journal of Probability: Andreas Kyprianou https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp Len Garces, University of South Aritra Halder, University of Yinqiu He, University of Michigan, Frankie Higgs, Lancaster University Electronic Communications in Probability: Australia Connecticut Ann Arbor Giambattista Giacomin https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Tyler McCormick https://www.amstat.org/ASA/ Publications/Journals.aspx log into members' area at imstat.org Statistics Surveys: David Banks https://imstat.org/ss https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ssu Nianqiao (Phyllis) Ju, Harvard Kwangho Kim, Carnegie Mellon Myungjin Kim, Iowa State University Bhumesh Kumar, University of University University Wisconsin–Madison Probability Surveys: Ben Hambly https://imstat.org/ps https://www.i-journals.org/ps/ IMS-Supported Journals ALEA: Latin American Journal of Probability and Statistics: Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira http://alea.impa.br/english Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B): Grégory Gil Kur, Massachusetts Institute of Jie Li, Tsinghua University George Liddle, Lancaster University Yan Liu, University of Illinois at Miermont, Christophe Sabot Technology Urbana-Champaign https://imstat.org/aihp https://projecteuclid.org/aihp Bayesian Analysis: Michele Guindani https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba Bernoulli: Mark Podolskij, Markus Reiß https://www.bernoulli-society.org/ https://projecteuclid.org/bj Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics: Enrico Colosimo Cong Ma, Princeton University Mariya Mamajiwala, University Rui Mao, University of Toronto James Matuk, The Ohio State College London University https://imstat.org/bjps https://projecteuclid.org/bjps IMS-Affiliated Journals Observational Studies: Dylan Small https://obsstudies.org/ Probability and Mathematical Statistics: K. Bogdan, M. Musiela, J. Rosiński, W. Szczotka, & W.A. Woyczyński http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~pms/ Seongoh Park, Seoul National Xiao Shen, University of Wisconsin– Yueying Wang, Iowa State University Xiao Wu, Harvard University Stochastic Systems: Shane Henderson University Madison https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/stsy 4 . IMS Bulletin Volume 49 . Issue 5 COPSS statement on R.A. Fisher Award The Committee of Presidents of Statistical sometimes be impracticable. We emphasize and teaching material