SSC Press Release: Wed Aug 1 22:19:17 2007 [Le francais suit] The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) announced today that the 2007 Presidents' Award is given to Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, from the University of Toronto. This announcement was made at the Joint Statistical Meetings, in Salt Lake City. The Presidents' Award is the most prestigious honour bestowed by COPSS. It is awarded annually to a statistician under the age of 40 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. Jeffrey is the 27th recipient of the Presidents' Award. The citation reads as follows: "For fundamental contributions to probability theory, stochastic processes and MCMC algorithms with applications to statistics; for seminal contributions to the theoretical underpinnings of the convergence rates of MCMC algorithms; for his prolific record of collaboration, resulting in significant publications in economics, mathematical finance, artificial intelligence and survival analysis; and for outstanding mentoring and extraordinary skill at communicating some of the deeper ideas of our discipline through the media (print, radio, and TV) and through the publication of a general audience book on probability in real life which, less than two years after publication is in its 6th printing." Jeffrey Rosenthal was born in Scarborough (Ontario) in 1967. He studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Toronto (B.Sc., 1988) and at Harvard (Ph.D., 1992). He worked at the University of Minnesota for one year before joining the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto, where he is was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2000. Among other honours, Jeffrey became a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2005 and won the CRM-SSC Award in 2006. For more details on Jeffrey's work and career, see http://probability.ca/jeff/ A list of the Presidents' Award winners (which includes six other Canadians) may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPSS_Presidents'_Award Congratulations, Jeffrey! Christian Genest, Ph.D., P.Stat. SSC President -------------------------------------------- Le Comite des presidents de societes statistiques (COPSS) a annonce aujourd'hui que le Prix des presidents est attribue cette annee a Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, de l'Universite de Toronto. Cette annonce a ete faite dans le cadre du Congres de statistique conjoint, a Salt Lake City. Le Prix des presidents est la plus haute distinction accordee par le COPSS. Il est attribue annuellement a un statisticien de moins de 40 ans s'etant illustre par l'ampleur de ses contributions a la profession. Jeffrey Rosenthal est le 27e recipiendaire du Prix des presidents. Le prix lui a ete remis ... < Pour ses travaux en probabilites et ses apports fondamentaux a l'etude des processus stochastiques, des algorithmes MCMC et de leurs applications statistiques ; pour ses travaux d'avant-garde sur le comportement des taux de convergence des algorithmes MCMC ; pour l'abondance et la diversite de ses collaborations, qui sont a l'origine d'importantes publications en economique, en finance mathematique, en intelligence artificielle et en analyse de survie ; et pour ses qualites exceptionnelles de mentor et de vulgarisateur qui ont permis au grand public d'apprehender certaines des notions les plus complexes du domaine par le truchement des media (presse, radio et tele) et la publication d'un ouvrage sur les applications concretes des probabilites qui en est a son 6e tirage en moins de deux ans. > Jeffrey Rosenthal est ne a Scarborough (Ontario) en 1967. Il a etudie les mathematiques et la statistique a l'Universite de Toronto (B.Sc., 1988) et a Harvard (Ph.D., 1992). Il a travaille pendant un an a l'Universite du Minnesota avant d'etre recrute par le Departement de statistique de l'Universite de Toronto, ou il a ete promu au rang de professeur titulaire en l'an 2000. Entre autres distinctions, Jeffrey a ete nomme compagnon de l'Institut de statistique mathematique en 2005 et a remporte le Prix CRM-SSC Award en 2006. Pour de plus amples details sur le travail et la carriere de Jeffrey, voir http://probability.ca/jeff/ On peut trouver un palmares des gagnants du Prix des presidents (parmi lesquels six autres Canadiens) a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPSS_Presidents'_Award Felicitations, Jeffrey ! Le president de la SSC, Christian Genest, Ph.D., P.Stat. ========================================================================= Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award, 1979-2007 ("C" = "Canadian"): * 1979: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley * 1982: Stephen E. Fienberg (C), Carnegie Mellon University * 1983: Tze Leung La, Stanford University * 1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara * 1985: James O. Berger, Duke University * 1986: Ross L. Prentice (C), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center * 1987: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu, University of Wisconsin * 1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University * 1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University * 1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago * 1991: Bernard W. Silverman, University of Bristol * 1992: Nancy Reid (C), University of Toronto * 1993: Wing-Hung Wong, Harvard University * 1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University * 1995: Iain M. Johnstone, University of California, Berkeley * 1996: Robert J. Tibshirani (C), University of Toronto * 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University * 1998: Pascal Massart, Universite de Paris-Sud * 1999: Larry A. Wasserman (C), Carnegie Mellon University * 2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University * 2001: Xiao-Li Meng, University of Chicago * 2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University * 2003: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University * 2004: Michael A. Newton (C), University of Wisconsin * 2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley * 2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University * 2007: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal (C), University of Toronto =========================================================================