IMS New Researchers Conference

About the Meeting

The IMS New Researchers Conference in Statistics and Probability is an annual conference organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). It is modeled after the European Young Statisticians Meetings, which is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society. The 2015 edition will be the 17th such conference.

The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in these fields. The participants will present their research via a short expository talk or a poster and mingle throughout the day. There will be longer talks by senior researchers, as well as panels on teaching, on mentoring of graduate students, on publishing and on grant writing. The meeting covers a wide range of topics in statistics and applied statistics, and some probability.

Anyone who has received a Ph.D. on or after 2010, or expects to receive a Ph.D. by the end of 2015, is eligible to attend, though participation is by invitation only. Go to the application page for more information.

Note that the meeting is to be held just prior to the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), which will be in Seattle Convention Center, few miles from the campus of the University of Washington.

Organizing committee (2015): Ali Shojaie (co-chair; U Washington), Noah Simon (co-chair; U Washington), Edoardo Airoldi (Harvard), Cecilia Cotton (U Waterloo), Johanna Neslehova (McGill), Xingye Qiao (Binghamton U), Karl Rohe (U Wisconsin).

Past meetings

16. Harvard University, Cambridge
15. Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal
14. University of California, San Diego
13. University of British Columbia, Vancouver
12. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
11. University of Colorado, Boulder
10. University of Utah, Salt Lake City
9. University of Washington, Seattle
8. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
7. York University, Toronto
6. University of California, Davis
5. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
4. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1. University of California, Berkeley