Contribute to the IMS

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The IMS offers several opportunities for contributions to the society’s programs. Please take a moment to consider making a donation to one or more of these funds.

The IMS Gift Membership Program was established in 1991, to provide IMS memberships and journals for statisticians and probabilists in regions of the world where payments in hard currency would impose a difficult financial burden. The IMS Council invites you to donate either a gift membership to a designated individual or simply to donate to the general program fund.

The Le Cam Lecture Fund was originally endowed by friends and family of Lucien Le Cam who wished to memorialize his contributions to our field. Professor Le Cam was an original thinker and the honored IMS Le Cam Lecturer will be an individual whose contributions have been or promise to be fundamental to the development of mathematical statistics or probability. The Le Cam Lecture is given every third year. Funds are used to cover the Le Cam Lecturer’s travel to the IMS Annual Meeting to present the lecture.

The Open Access Fund was established in 2006, to support the establishment and ongoing operation of open access publications and ventures which foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. IMS currently has several open access publications, including: Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Communications in Probability and Electronic Journal of Statistics. Each journal has modest expenses: typesetting and electronic platform placement. Two further IMS open access ventures are the posting of all IMS journal articles to ArXiv and assistance to members in posting to ArXiv. The Open Access Fund will assist the IMS in defraying these expenses and provide an opportunity for individuals and organizations to support such efforts.

The Schramm Lecture Fund: The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have created a joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be given annually and will be featured at meetings (co)-sponsored by the IMS or the Bernoulli Society with a strong attendance by researchers in probability and stochastic processes.

The Tweedie New Researcher Award Fund was originally set up with funds donated by Richard L. Tweedie’s friends and family. Professor Tweedie played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. It seemed only fitting to use these funds to set up an award in his name. Funds are used to fund the travel of the Tweedie New Researcher Award recipient to attend the IMS New Researchers Conference and present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture.