vincitori Savage Award 2001 e dettagli prossimo bando

[Antonietta Mira <antonietta.mira@uninsubria.it>]

Announcement:  Leonard J. Savage Dissertation Awards

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) is pleased to
announce two L. S.  Savage Awards of $750 each for 2002:

        Theory and Methods Savage Award for a dissertation that makes
important original contributions to the foundations, theoretical
developments, and/or general methodology of Bayesian analysis.

        Applied Methodology Savage Award for a dissertation that makes
outstanding contributions with novel Bayesian analysis of a substantive
problem that has potential to impact statistical practice in a field of
application.

The Savage Awards are cosponsored by the American Statistical
Association
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS), the Trustees of the L.
J.
Savage Memorial Fund, and NBER/NSF Seminars on Bayesian Inference in
Econometrics.

A dissertation may be nominated by the author, by the advisor or other
reader, by the department chair or professor, or by any ISBA member.  A
dissertation may be nominated for only a single award year.  Nomination
is
made by submission of the dissertation and a letter that describes the
main theoretical, methodological, and/or applied contributions of the
thesis and specifies that the thesis is being nominated for either the
Theory and Methods award or the Applied Methodology award.

The nomination letter and thesis should be sent as e-mail attachments
to:
Wes Johnson, wojohnson@ucdavis.edu.  The files containing the nomination
letter and actual thesis should use the following formats:
"nominatorname_candidatename.ps" (or pdf);  "candidatename_t.ps" (or
pdf)
for the Theory Methods Award; "candidatename_a.ps" (or pdf) for the
Application Methodology Award.

Hard copy submission will be accepted only under exceptional
circumstances.  In this instance, please send two hard copies of the
dissertation to: Wesley Johnson, Department of Statistics, University of
California, Davis, CA. 95616.

Deadline for receiving nominations for the 2002 Savage Awards is October
31, 2002.

The theses will be evaluated by the Savage Thesis Evaluation Committee.
A pool of dissertations will be selected from the submissions and
individuals selected will be invited to give presentations based on
their
dissertations in the SBSS organized Topic Contributed Savage Award
Session
at the August 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in San Francisco.
Winners will be selected from this pool prior to the JSM, independent of
the presentation in the Session, and will be announced at the JSM
Bayesian
Reception.

The winners of 2001 Theory and Methods Savage Award are:

        Theory and Methods Award:  Luis E. Nieto-Barajas, Bayesian
Nonparametric Survival Analysis via MarkovProcesses.  Thesis Adviser,
Stephen Walker, University of Bath.

        Application Methodology Award: John Lockwood, Estimating Joint
Distributions of Contaminants in US Community Water System Resources.
Thesis Adviser, Mark Schervish, Carnegie Mellon University.
     .

Members of the 2001 Savage Thesis Evaluation Committee were: Siddhartha
Chib (Chair), Washington University, St. Louis, Petros Dellaportas,
Athens
University of Economics, Mike Evans, University of Toronto, Val Johnson,
Duke University and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Peter Mueller, M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center, and Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine.