News and Announcements

1. July 8, 2010 - The slate of candidates for the 2010 ISBA elections has been announced. The election will be held between Oct 15 and Nov 15, 2010.
2. June 30, 2010 - The second issue of the 2010 ISBA Bulletin is now available.
3. June 22, 2010 - Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Savage Award, announced at the recent ISBA World Meeting. The Theory & Methods winner is James G. Scott (Duke Univ), with Honorable Mention awarded to Ryan P. Adams (U Cambridge). The Applied Methodology winner is Emily B. Fox (MIT), with Honorable Mention awarded to Matthew A. Taddy (UC Santa Cruz).
4. June 22, 2010 - Two books have been chosen as winners of the 2009 DeGroot Prize. Congratulations to Giovanni Parmigiani and Lurdes Inoue for their book Decision Theory: Principles and Approaches and to Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams for their book Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning.
5. June 22, 2010 - Congratulations to Ricardo Lemos and Bruno Sanso on winning the 2009 Mitchell Prize for their paper A Spatio-Temporal Model for Mean, Anomaly and Trend Fields of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature.
6. June 11, 2010 - Dennis V. Lindley has been awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership of ISBA in recognition of his pioneering leadership and foundational contributions to Bayesian statistics and decision sciences.
7. May 25, 2010 - The Bayesian Nonparametrics Section of ISBA has been established. The section's inaugural chair will be Stephen Walker.
8. March 29, 2010 - The Brazilian Chapter of ISBA has elected a new set of officers.
9. March 29, 2010 - The first issue of the 2010 ISBA Bulletin is now available.
10. February 10, 2010 - The ISBA Bylaws were amended to include the ISBA Lifetime Members Junior Researcher Award. Items D.1.c and D.4.c were added to Section D of the bylaws, Awards Administered by ISBA.
11. February 4, 2010 - Information about travel support for the ISBA 2010 World Meeting is now available.
12. January 30, 2010 - Finalists for the 2009 Savage Award are now announced. All four Finalists will present talks based on their outstanding dissertations at a special session of the ISBA 2010 World Meeting in Benidorm, Spain in June. The winners will be announced at the conference banquet.
13. Nov 15, 2009 - 2009 ISBA Election Completed Congratulations to President-elect Michael I. Jordan, to Executive Secretary 2010-2012 Merlise Clyde, and to all the Election Winners and thanks to all nominees. This year 311 of 617 ISBA's members submitted ballets, a new record for participation.
14. Oct 16, 2009 - SBIES 2010 - April 30-May 1 2010, The University of Texas at Austin. The 2010 Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES) will take place on April 30-May 1 2010, The University of Texas at Austin. As was the custom in the previous meetings, the aim is to feature presentations by young and established researchers working in the field of Bayesian econometrics and statistics. Full details will soon be available at the SBIES conference web page. Organizers of SBIES 2010 are: Carlos Carvalho, Paul Damien, Rob McCulloch, James Scott, and Tom Shively.
15. Oct 15, 2009 - The 2009 ISBA Elections are on! Current ISBA members should have received personalized e-mail messages containing a one-time link to an individual ballot on which they could express their choice for ISBA President (for 2011), Executive Secretary (for 2010-2012), and four new members of the Board. If you did not receive a ballot, perhaps your membership has lapsed--- you can check your status and renew your membership at members.bayesian.org. Candidates and election statements are available here.
16. Aug 10, 2009 - The National Academy of Sciences announces that the NAS Award for Initiatives in Research is given to recognize innovative young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit. The field of presentation rotates among the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The award is scheduled for presentation in 2010 in the area of numerical methods and is presented with a prize of $15,000. Bayesians are encouraged to apply!
17. Aug 4, 2009 - Congratulations to the 2008 Savage Award Winners, Lorenzo Trippa (Theory & Methods) and Alejandro Jara (Applied Methodology); also to honorable mention Donatello Telesca. Winners were announced at the IMS/SBSS Mixer at the Joint Statistics Meetings in Washington, D.C.
18. Aug 4, 2009 - Congratulations to the 2008 Mitchell prize Winners, Hui Jin and Donald Rubin, for their paper Principal Stratification for Causal Inference With Extended Partial Compliance (JASA 103(481), 2008, 101-111).
19. Jul 23, 2009 - The next ISBA World Meeting, ISBA 2010, will be held 2010 June 3-8 in Benidorm, Spain. Make plans now to attend!
20. Jul 5, 2009 - The ad-hoc Membership Committee issued its first Semestral Report to the Elected Board.