News
September 1, 2026
The PDF version of the September 2026 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/.
Contents include:
IMS Salzburg meeting
Members’ news: Soumendra Lahiri, Noel Cressie, Runze Li, Pragya Sur, Arun Kuchibhotla, Emmanuel Candès
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Arne Bathke writes:
Our 2026 IMS Annual Meeting took place from 6 to 9 July in beautiful Salzburg, the picturesque Austrian city known as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadé (Amadeus) Mozart and Christian Doppler, and as the setting of the “Sound of Music” story, as well as home of the…
Soumendra Lahiri, the Stanley A. Swayer Professor in Mathematics & Statistics at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, will deliver an online talk in honor of the late C.R. Rao’s birthday on September 10, 2026 (at noon, Eastern US time). This online Zoom event is the third in a…
Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, has been awarded the 2026 Jerome Sacks Award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) in the USA. The Sacks Award recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.
Noel is Director of UOW’s Centre for Environmental…
The American Statistical Association’s 2026 Gottfried E. Noether Awards were presented at JSM to Runze Li (Noether Distinguished Scholar Award) and to Pragya Sur and Arun Kuchibhotla (Noether Early Career Scholar Awards)…
This ASA award honors the contributions of David R. Cox to the foundations of statistical inference, experimental design, and data analysis. Award winner Peter McCullagh presented a lecture on “What is a regression model?” at JSM Boston.…