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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 throughout
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Committee of
Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) |
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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
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
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
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
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
This is a new award. No specifics available yet.
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Visiting Lecturers in Statistics
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
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:
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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.
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to organize and
nucleate new functions for the mathematical sciences community,
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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
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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
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 20 members, half of these represent
the statistical sciences community and the other half represent the
Research Triangle consortium. The IMS President is an ex-officio
member of the corporation of NISS and appoints another member to the
corporation. IMS also has two member on the NISS Board of Trustees.
Appointees serve two-year terms that start and end during the first
weekend in November, when NISS has its annual Board meeting. |
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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.
The IMS is one of about 300 societies affiliated with AAAS.
Appointments in the AAAS Committee have a cycle that coincides with
the business cycle of the AAAS. IMS The AAAS holds its annual
meetings during the second or third weeks in February. This calendar
is in effect at least until February, 2004. Specific dates for AAAS
annual meetings are 2/20/01, 2/19/02, 2/18/03, and 2/17/04.
IMS is associated with Sections A
(Mathematics), G (Biological Sciences), T (Information, Computing
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American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
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Committee on
Women in the Mathematical Sciences
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
Appointments are for three year terms. This committee
surveys universities that grant PhDs in the mathematical
sciences.
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AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Conferences
The AMS-IMS-SIAM Research Summer Conferences (RSCs) 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 at NSF. A selection committee is appointed by the three
societies and charged with evaluating the proposals submitted to
AMS for consideration each February, about 16 months prior to
their planned occurrence. Currently seven members are appointed
by AMS, three by SIAM, and three by IMS. Appointments begin on
July 1, and end on June 30. 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
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Russian Translations
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
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
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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Current Index to Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is an annual
publication sponsored jointly by IMS and ASA that aspires to
index the field of statistics on a timely basis. CIS interprets
statistics broadly, and the topics it covers range from
probability theory to increasing the response rate in mail
surveys. The CIS records from 1978 onwards are available in
computer readable form from IMS. They are also contained in the
MathSci database, which is sponsored by the American
Mathematical Society and available through several commercial
online information retrieval services.Committee members serve
a three year term on a calendar year basis. The IMS
representative is appointed by the IMS President and approved by
the Council during the Annual meetings of the previous year. The
Chair of the Committee is appointed jointly by the Presidents of
IMS and ASA.
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Journal of Computational and
Graphical Statistics
The IMS co-sponsors the Journal of Computational and
Graphical Statistics (JCGS) as equal partners with ASA and with
the Interface Foundation as a minority co-sponsor (2:2:1
proportions). A Management Committee exists to control
operations of JCGS and formulate editorial policy. Editorial
appointments are subject to IMS Council approval.
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ASA Board
Meetings
In year’s past, the IMS has had an invited
representative to ASA Board Meetings.
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Invited IMS Representative to ASA
Committee on Meetings (COM)
COM includes representatives from each partner society.
COM representatives have 3 year terms. Terms end on December 31.
The IMS representative to COM is the IMS Executive Secretary.
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IMS Representative to the
Joint Meetings Advisory Committee
Joint Statistical Meetings Advisory Committee (variously
abbreviated JSMAC or JMAC): JMAC’s main functions are to
communicate partner society concerns, to study certain issues
not normally handled by the Committee of Meetings (COM of ASA),
and when necessary to make recommendations to society
Boards/Councils for consideration. JMAC can recommend changes to
the Joint Venture Agreement of December 18, 1995. The cycle for
chairing JMAC is in the order (ASA, IMS, ENAR, SSC, WNAR). Terms
are 3 years length and end on December 31. The IMS
representative to JMAC is the IMS Executive Secretary.
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Spring Research Conference on
Statistics
This annual conference is jointly sponsored by IMS and the
Section of Physical Sciences and Engineering Section (SPES) of
ASA. The conference is overseen by a management committee that
has three representatives from IMS on three year rotating terms. |
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Bernoulli
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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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