The Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics. It is awarded every two years and the next presentation will be in spring 2019.
Ethel May Newbold (1882-1933) was an English statistician and the first woman to be awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society, in 1928. The name of the prize recognises the historically important role of women in statistics but the prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. It is supported by Wiley.
Description
The Ethel Newbold Prize is to be awarded to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics and/or excellence in research that links developments in a substantive field to new advances in statistics.
In any year in which the award is due, the prize will not be awarded unless the set of all nominations includes candidates from both genders.
The award consists of the prize amount of €2,500 together with an award certificate.
For this call, the prize winner will be selected in spring 2019. The prize will be awarded at a following Bernoulli World Congress, Bernoulli-sponsored major conference, or ISI World Statistics Congress. The awardee will also be invited to present a talk at one of these conferences.
Further information about the Ethel Newbold Prize (and other prizes of the Bernoulli Society) may be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes.
Submission of nominations
Each nomination should include a letter outlining the case in support of the nominee, along with a curriculum vitae. Nominations as well as any inquiries about the award should be sent to Oddbjorg Wethelund, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, email: oddbjorg@math.au.dk.
The deadline for accepting nominations is November 30, 2018.