The President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with the President-Elect and Past President, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
Duties
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the President makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). In addition, he or she is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.
List of presidents
20th century
1936 Henry L. Rietz
1937 Walter A. Shewhart
1938 Burton H. Camp
1939 Paul R. Rider
1940 Samuel S. Wilks
1941 Harold Hotelling
1942-43 Cecil C. Craig
1944 Walter A. Shewhart
1945 W. Edwards Deming
1946 William Gemmell Cochran
1947 William Feller
1948 Abraham Wald
1949 Jerzy Neyman
1950 Joseph Leo Doob
1951 Paul S. Dwyer
1952 Meyer A. Girshick
1953 Morris H. Hansen
1954 Edwin G. Olds
1955 Henry Scheffé
1956 David Blackwell
1957 Alexander Mood
1958 Leonard Jimmie Savage
1959 Jacob Wolfowitz
1960 John Tukey
1961 Erich L. Lehmann
1962 Albert H. Bowker
1963 Theodore W. Anderson
1964 Z. W. Birnbaum
1965 Herbert Solomon
1966 Herbert Robbins
1967 Ted Harris
1968 Herman Chernoff
1969 Wassily Hoeffding
1970 Jack Kiefer
1971 William Kruskal
1972 Raj Chandra Bose
1973 Lucien Le Cam
1974 R. R. Bahadur
1975 Frederick Mosteller
1976 Donald L. Burkholder
1977 C. R. Rao
1978 Elizabeth Scott
1979 Samuel Karlin
1980 George E. P. Box
1981 Peter J. Bickel
1982 Mark Kac
1983 Patrick Billingsley
1984 Ingram Olkin
1985 Oscar Kempthorne
1986 Paul Meier
1987 Ronald Pyke
1988 Bradley Efron
1989 Ram Gnanadesikan
1990 Shanti S. Gupta
1991 David O. Siegmund
1992 Willem van Zwet
1993 Larry Brown
1994 Stephen Stigler
1995 David R. Brillinger
1996 James O. Berger
1997 Nancy Reid
1998 Persi Diaconis
1999 Stephen Fienberg
21st century
2000 Morris Eaton
2001 Bernard Silverman
2002 Iain M. Johnstone
2003 S. R. S. Varadhan
2004 Terry Speed
2005 Louis Chen Hsiao Yun
2006 Thomas G. Kurtz
2007 Jim Pitman
2008 Jianqing Fan
2009 Nanny Wermuth
2010 J. Michael Steele
2011 Peter Gavin Hall
2012 Ruth J. Williams
2013 Hans-Rudolf Künsch
2014 Bin Yu
2015 Erwin Bolthausen
2016 Richard Davis
2017 Jon Wellner
2018 Alison Etheridge
2019 Xiao-Li Meng
2020 Susan Murphy
2021 Regina Liu
External links
Past Executive Committee Members
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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