
Congrats to my friends who got academic recognition at JSM last month, among whom Bin Yu for her 2023 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, Veronika Rockova for her Emerging Leader Award, Nancy Reid for her David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, Malay Ghosh for his Deming Lecture, Andrew Gelman for his Monroe G. Sirken Award, Noel Cressie for his Outstanding Statistical Application Award, and Peter Bühlmann for his Presidential Address!
Archive for awards
congrats, friends!
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Andrew Gelman, awards, Canada, COPSS Award, David Cox, Deming Lecture, JSM 2023, Maple, Nancy Reid, Noel Cressie, Ontario, Toronto on September 27, 2023 by xi'annominees for Nebula 2022 [reposted]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags awards, fantasy, Nebula Awards, science fiction on March 23, 2023 by xi'anBooks I had not read, although some are on my reading list…
Novel
- Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree [to read]
- Spear, Nicola Griffith
- Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher [to read]
- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, R.F. Kuang [to read]
- Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir [to read]
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
Novella
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers [to read]
- “Bishop’s Opening,” R.S.A. Garcia
- I Never Liked You Anyway, Jordan Kurella
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk
- High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson
Blackwell-Rosenbluth awards 2022
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Americas, Arianna Rosenbluth, awards, Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, David Blackwell, early career researchers, ISBA, j-ISBA, Ph.D. students, time zones on November 23, 2022 by xi'an
Here are the Winners of the j-ISBA Blackwell-Rosenbluth awards 2022, between those based on the time zones UTC-12 to UTC-1 (aka the Americas):
- Sharmistha Guha, Texas A&M University
Simon Mak, Duke University
Akihiko Nishimura, Johns Hopkins University
and those based on the time zones UTC+0 to UTC+13 (aka the Americasc):
- Jeremy Heng, ESSEC Business School, Singapore
Swapnil Mishra, University of Copenhagen
Leah South, Queensland University of Technology
Congrats!!! They will all present their webinar on 28 or 29 November at 1pm UTC (Universal Time Coordinate).
Blackwell-Rosenbluth Awards 2021
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Arianna Rosenbluth, awards, Bayesian conference, C.R. Rao, David Blackwell, fencing, ISBA, j-ISBA, MCMC, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, Rao-Blackwell theorem, University of Warwick on November 1, 2021 by xi'an
Congratulations to the winners of the newly created award! This j-ISBA award is intended for junior researchers in different areas of Bayesian statistics. And named after David Blackwell and Arianna Rosenbluth. They will present their work at the newly created JB³ seminars on 10 and 12 November, both at 1pm UTC. (The awards are broken into two time zones, corresponding to the Americas and the rest of the World.)

UTC+0 to UTC+13
Marta Catalano, Warwick University
Samuel Livingstone, University College London
Dootika Vats, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
UTC-12 to UTC-1
Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia
Daniel Kowal, Rice University
Yixin Wang, University of Michigan