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Handbook |
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| Activities
with Other Societies |
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Terms
of Committees with Other Societies |
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Many of the committees
with other societies have terms specified by the calendar year.
Unless otherwise specified, an annual cycle for a committee runs
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Committee
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The COPSS Charter preamble reads: "Whereas
the various societies have distinct characteristics they also have
some common interests and concerns that can benefit from coordinated
efforts. The purpose of the Committee of Presidents of
Statistical Societies (COPSS) is to work on shared problems and improve
intersociety communication. Possible activities for COPSS include
but are not limited to the coordination of the calendar of statistical
meetings, the preparation of material to inform students about statistics
when they are choosing a profession, the sponsoring of lecture series
and prizes, and the production of statistical directories."
Currently, the Presidents,
Past Presidents, and President-Elects of IMS, ASA, ENAR (Biometric
Society, East), WNAR (Biometric Society, West) and SSC (Statistical
Society of Canada ) serve on COPSS. A Chair and a Treasurer
are appointed from outside the list of presidents. COPSS
also maintains liaisons with several societies. A current
list can be found on the COPSS
web site.
Each society pays a certain
amount to COPSS for each of its members.
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The
Presidents' Award |
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COPSS sponsors and presents
the Presidents' Award to a young member of the statistical
community in recognition of an outstanding contribution
to the profession of statistics. The Presidents'
Award, established in 1976, is jointly sponsored by the
American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, the Biometric Society ENAR, the Biometric
Society WNAR, and the Statistics Society of Canada operating
through COPSS. The award consists of a suitable
certificate and cash award in the sum of $1000 and is
given during the joint meetings of the sponsoring societies.
The recipient of the Presidents' Award shall be
a member of at least one of the participating societies. The
candidate may be chosen for a single contribution
of extraordinary merit, or an outstanding aggregate
of contributions, to the profession of statistics. The
Presidents' Award is granted to an individual who
has not yet reached his or her 41st birthday during
the calendar year of the award.
The President's Award Committee consists of six
members. Each of the five regular member societies
(ASA, ENAR, IMS, SSC, and WNAR) nominates one member
of the Committee and the COPSS chair, in consultation
with the members of COPSS, nominates one member.
Each of the six serves a three year term on a rotating
basis. The Executive Secretary of COPSS is an ex-officio
member of the Presidents' Award Committee. Recent
selection committee members and awardees are listed
in the Archival Section of the IMS Web page.
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R.
A. Fisher Lectureship |
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The R.A. Fisher Lectureship was established in 1963
by COPSS to honor both the contributions of Sir Ronald
Aylmer Fisher and the work of a present-day statistician
for their advancement of statistical theory and applications. The
Fisher Lectureship is a very high recognition of meritorious
achievement and scholarship in statistical science and
recognizes highly significant impact of statistical methods
on scientific investigations. COPSS has required
that the Lectureship be awarded each year and that when
possible the lecture be presented each year at the Joint
Annual Meeting of Societies. The lecturer shall
be selected by the COPSS R. A. Fisher Lecture and Award
Committee which is chosen to reflect the interests of
the member Societies. The lectureship is governed
by the following conditions:
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The R. A. Fisher
Lectureship is to be awarded yearly to an eminent
statistician for outstanding contributions
to the theory and applications of statistics.
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R. A. Fisher
Lecture shall be presented at a designated
Annual Meeting of the COPSS Societies.
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The lecture shall
be broadly based and emphasize those aspects
of statistics and probability which bear close
relationship to the scientific collection and
interpretation of data, areas in which Fisher
made outstanding contributions.
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The lecture shall
be scheduled so as to have no conflict with
any other session at the meeting.
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The Chair of
the lecture shall be the Chair of the COPSS
R. A. Fisher Lecture Committee of the Chairs'
designee. The Chair shall be present
for a short statement of the life and works
of R. A. Fisher, not to exceed 5 minutes in
duration.
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The lecturer
is expected to prepare a manuscript based on
the appropriate lecture and to submit it to
one of the COPSS society journals.
Recent selection
committee members and awardees are listed in the
Archival Section of the IMS Web page.
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George
W. Snedecor Award |
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This award, established in 1976, honors an individual
who was instrumental in the development of statistical
theory in biometry. The award is for a noteworthy
publication in biometry within three years of the data
of the award. Starting in 1991 this award is given
every other year, in odd years, and consists of a plaque
and a cash award. Recent selection committee members
and awardees are listed in the Archival Section of the
IMS Web page.
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Elizabeth
L. Scott Award |
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In recognition of Elizabeth L. Scott's lifelong efforts
in the furtherance of the careers of women, this award
is granted to an individual who has helped foster opportunities
in statistics for women by developing programs to encourage
women to seek careers in statistics; by consistently
and successfully mentoring women students or new researchers;
by working to identify gender-based inequities in employment;
or by serving in a variety of capacities as a role model. This
award, first awarded in 1992, is given every other year
in even years, and consists of a plaque and a cash award.
Recent selection committee members and awardees are listed
in the Archival Section of the IMS Web page.
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F.
N. David Award |
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F. N. David Award, established
in 2001, is sponsored jointly by COPSS and the Caucus
for Women in Statistics. This award is named after Florence
Nightingale David, an accomplished statistician and the
first recipient of the Elizabeth L. Scott Award. This
award is to be granted to a female statistician who serves
as a role model to other women by her contributions to
the profession through excellence in research, leadership
of multidisciplinary collaborative groups, statistics
education, or service to the professional societies.
The F. N. David Award will be awarded bi-annually and
consists of a plaque and cash award.
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Visiting
Lecturers in Statistics |
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The Visiting Lecturer Program in Statistics, which
is sponsored by COPSS, has been operating continuously
since 1953. The main purpose of the program is to convey
the excitement of the field of statistics to students
and other groups. The specific goals are as follows:
- Provide information on the nature of modern
statistics.
- Illustrate the importance of statistics in
all fields of science, particularly those involving
experimental research, and encourage instruction
in statistics to students in all academic areas
and at all levels.
- Create an awareness of the opportunities for
careers in statistics for students with high
quantitative and problem solving abilities and
to encourage them to seek advanced training in
statistics.
- Provide information and advice to university
and college faculties and students on the present
availability of advanced training in statistics.
- Encourage the development of new courses and
programs in statistics.
Leading statisticians
from universities, industry and government have
participated as lecturers. The program is available
to schools and other interested groups in the continental
US and Canada. Recent selection committee
members are listed in the Archival Section of the
IMS Web page.
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Other
Current COPSS Activities |
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Web site development. |
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Conference
Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) |
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The CBMS Constitution describes the
rationale for CBMS as follows.
The purpose of the CBMS shall be to encourage in the broadest
and most liberal manner the coordination of the activities of member
organizations in the advancement of the mathematical sciences.
This purpose is to be pursued by maintaining communications within
the mathematical community and between that community and others,
promoting public understanding of the importance of the mathematical
sciences in a technical society, exchanging information between
member societies, and other related activities as desirable and
fiscally feasible.
Currently, the American Mathematical
Association of Two-Year Colleges, American Mathematical Society,
American Statistical Association, Association for Symbolic Logic,
Association for Women In Mathematics, Association of State Supervisors
of Mathematics, IMS, Mathematical Association of America, National
Association of Mathematicians, National Council of Supervisors
of Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Operations
Research Society of America, Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, the Society of Actuaries, and The Institute of Management
Sciences are members of CBMS. Each of these organizations is represented
by its president.
CBMS is governed by its elected officers
(chair, chair-elect or past chair, secretary and treasurer) and
executive committee, which consists of the officers and two additional
elected members. There is also a standing Investments Committee,
which consists of the treasurer, administrative officer, and a
member appointed by the Chair. The Council consists of the Presidents
of the Member Societies.
The kinds of activities that CBMS
undertakes are described by the following Statement of Policy.
- The Conference Board seeks to promote understanding and cooperation
among the national organizations in the mathematical sciences
so that they work together in their various ways for the advancement
of, the application of, and the dissemination of, mathematical
knowledge. It is the Conference Board's policy to engage primarily
in the following kinds of activities:
- to provide a forum for the discussion of issues of broad
concern to the mathematical sciences community and a focus
for mutual support among the member societies.
- to organize and nucleate new functions for the mathematical
sciences community,
- to serve as an organization to which government agencies,
professional societies of other disciplines, industry and private
foundations can turn for leadership and participation by the
mathematical societies, in the spirit described here, and for
advice and counsel. To serve as a point of representation for
the mathematical sciences to these agencies, societies, and
foundations.
It is the Conference Board's policy to minimize its engagement
in long-term contract management. Specifically, support for projects
begun by CBMS and deemed worthy of continuation would be made through
member societies. When appropriate, such activities might continue
under the auspices of CBMS even though not administered by CBMS.
In practice, CBMS has two major,
ongoing activities. The first is administering regional research
conferences with NSF support. IMS publishes statistics and probability
titles resulting from the sponsored regional conferences that meet
the standards of the Lecture Notes-Monograph Series. IMS has a
representative on the AMS-IMS-SIAM Committee that awards funding
for the conferences. The second activity is running semi-annual
Board Meetings, one in May and the other in December. The December
meeting is designated as the Annual Meeting, and it is there that
members of the Executive Committee are elected and dues are set
for the following year. The agenda for the May meeting is set at
the December meeting, and usually involves a topic of concern shared
by all member societies. For example, the meeting in May 1990 revolved
around a workshop entitled "Graduate Education in Transition." These
meetings are seen as a forum at which CBMS positions are developed.
CBMS leaves advocacy of the positions to others, however.
CBMS has been in influential when
the need has been clear. For example, in 1984-85 CBMS instigated
the founding of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board at the
National Research Council as a national steering committee that
can speak with the authority of the discipline.
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National
Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) |
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The primary mission
of NISS is to encourage and facilitate collaboration between statisticians
and scientists from other disciplines on large-scale problems of
US national significance. One of its first activities was a workshop
in winter 1991 on the role of statistics in materials science.
NISS is governed by its corporation of 31 members, representing
the statistical sciences community and the Research Triangle consortium.
The IMS President is an ex-officio member of the corporation of
NISS. Every three years, the IMS President appoints a person
who serves simultaneously as Appointed Member and Appointed Trustee
for a 3-year term beginning July of the coming year (coordinating
with the NISS July-June fiscal year).
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American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
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The application of IMS for admission to the AAAS as an affiliated society was approved in December 1940. AAAS affiliates include 262 societies and academies of science, serving more than 10 million members. Today, AAAS is the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies.
IMS is associated with Sections A (Mathematics), T (Information, Computing and Communications), and U (Statistics). The sections arrange symposia for the Annual Meeting, elect officers, and provide expertise for Association-wide projects. Appointments in the AAAS Committee have a cycle that coincides with the business cycle of the AAAS. The AAAS holds its annual meetings during the second or third weeks in February. See http://www.aaas.org for more information.
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American
Mathematical Society (AMS) |
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Committee
on Women in the Mathematical Sciences |
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The Committee on Women in the
Mathematical Sciences has members appointed from AMS, ASA,
IMS, NCTM and SIAM. The committee has always been run by AMS,
and committee meetings are held once a year in the fall, usually
in Chicago.
The Committee's charge is
to identify mechanisms for the enhancement of opportunities
for women in the mathematical and statistical sciences,
recommend actions to these societies in support of these
opportunities, and document its recommendations by presenting
data.
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AMS-IMS-MAA
Data Committee |
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The Data Committee provides guidance
and advice on the policies and procedures governing the conduct
of the Annual Survey. Its key roles are helping to determine
the composition of the forms and judging the merits of requests
for additions to the annual surveys - a critical function given
the frequent calls for additional data collection from those
who often do not recognize the associated costs. The committee
holds one face-to-face meetings a year in conjunction with
the January joint meeting of AMS and MAA.
The committee consists of five members appointed by the AMS, three
by MAA, one by ASA, and one by IMS. Jim Maxwell, AMS Associate Executive
Director for Meetings and Professional Services, serves as an ex-officio
member. MAA, ASA, and IMS contribute $3,500 annually toward the survey
effort for each representative they have on the committee. Out of
these funds, the AMS covers the travel expenses of the other societies'
committee members, applying the remainder of funds toward the direct
costs of the survey. Currently, the survey costs exceed $100,000
a year.
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AMS-IMS-SIAM
Joint Summer Conferences |
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The AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint
Research Summer Conferences (SRCs) are a long-standing
annual series of conferences sponsored by the three societies.
Funding for the series has been provided primarily by
grants to the AMS from the Division of Mathematical Sciences
from at NSF. A selection committee is appointed by the
three societies and charged with evaluating the proposals
submitted to AMS for consideration each March in Chicago,
about 16 months prior to their planned occurrence. Currently
six members are appointed by AMS, three by SIAM, and three
by IMS. Appointments begin on July 1, and end on June
30. The travel expenses of the committee members are fully
covered by the NSF grant for the program.
The selection committee approves between six and nine
one-week conferences to make up a summer's program. In
1999, the NSF requested that in addition to the Selection
Committee for SRCs, the three societies appoint an Advisory
Panel formed by two individuals from each of the three
societies. The Panel, which will NOT replace the Selection
Committee is charged with:
- Evaluating the success of the SRCs in meeting their
stated goals and recommend adjustments in the program
when needed.
- Identify specific areas of research that would benefit
from a conference and aid in recruiting proposals and
pre-proposals from individuals that are leaders in these
areas.
- Maintain contact with the leadership of the various
research institutes to help insure that areas covered
by conferences within the SRCs are not overlapping with
and, when appropriate complementary to, activities planned
at the institutes.
- Suggest individuals for appointment to the existing
Selection Committee on Joint Summer Research Conferences,
the prerogative of appointment remaining with the presidents
of each society.
The Advisory Panel is to be composed of distinguished
researchers in the mathematical sciences who have a broad
view of the discipline and who can collaborate with colleagues
in other sub-disciplines. Staff support to this committee
is provided by the AMS Associate Executive Director for
Meetings and Professional Services and staff in the AMS
Meetings and Conferences Department.
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Russian
Translations |
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AMS take care of all technical matters, including translation
and publication, and that the IMS section of the Committee
select appropriate papers for translation.
The IMS section of the committee
recommends papers pertaining to probability and statistics
and, occasionally, operations research and information
theory. With financial help from the National Science Foundation,
the AMS has carried out the technical aspects of publishing
translations. The volumes may be ordered through the American
Mathematical Society.
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Committee
on Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics |
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The Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics series began
when IMS and AMS agreed to jointly publish and disseminate
“meritorious material" in the form of tables. The Committee
on Mathematical Tables serves as an editorial review board
for this series, and it is responsible for preparing and editing
this series of tables. The chair of this committee acts as
an editor, with an unspecified term. The editor (or co-editors)
appoints the other members of the committee who act as associate
editors.
The Committee seeks
to publish high quality tables that are directly
useful in printed form but extremely difficult
to compute. The tables are of such a size and character
that they cannot be published in a standard journal
article, but usefulness rather than “inappropriateness
for a journal" is the major criterion for
publication. The tables are published along with
a clearly written paper that describes the computations,
theory, applications, interpolation, etc. To date,
ten volumes have been published, many by well-known
statisticians.
The Committee also
recognizes that technology is changing with respect
to what can be computed easily and what is useful,
and it has correspondingly adjusted its editorial
goals and standards. The Committee is discussing
the possibility of making tables available in machine
readable form and requiring that authors provide
algorithms. Such submissions would be accepted
only if the algorithm and accompanying material
were useful but unsuitable for a journal.
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Evaluation
Panel for NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships |
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AMS holds a cooperative agreement
with NSF to screen applications for postdoctoral research fellowships
in the mathematical sciences. IMS supplies three members for
the evaluation panel, and one of these sits on the Executive
Committee of the panel. Panel members usually serve for 3 years.
Term of appointment coincides with the Federal fiscal year:
October 1 of year n to September 30 of year n + 1. |
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American
Statistical Association (ASA) |
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Bernoulli
Society |
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The
National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment
(NCES) |
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The National Research
Center for Statistics and the Environment receives its primary
funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, and has as its
primary aim to develop novel methodology for statistical problems
with environmental applications. The Center has an outside advisory
board with members representing IMS, ASA, TIES, and EPA. |
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Electronic
Journal of Probability/Electronic Communications in Probability
(EJP/ECP) |
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Under the terms of the
affiliation agreement, the IMS will oversee the appointment of
members to future advisory boards. In consultation with the advisory
board, the IMS will oversee appointment of editors of the journals.
The advisory board consists of three IMS appointees, and three
outgoing editors, each on three year rotating terms (two to be
appointed each year). In recent years, the IMS Committee to Select
Editors has recommended editors for the EJP/ECP. All editorial
appointments are subject to IMS Council approval. |
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