MEETINGS
Peter Bühlmann Sally C. Morton
IMS Medallion Lecture ASA Presidential Address
“ Statistics for High- “ Statistics: From
Dimensional Data: Toward Evidence to Policy”
More Reliable Results” Tuesday, August 4, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 2, 2:00 p.m.
Sally Morton is president of the ASA and vice
Peter Bühlmann earned his PhD in mathematics
president for statistics and epidemiology at RTI
in 1993 from ETH Zürich, in Switzerland. From
International. She earned her bachelor’s degree in
1994–1997, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow
mathematical sciences, her master’s in operations
and Neyman Assistant Professor at the University
research, and her PhD in statistics from Stanford
of California, Berkeley. Since 1997, he has been
University. She also earned an MSc in statistics from
at ETH Zürich, where he was appointed as full
the London School of Economics.
professor in 2004. His current research interests
Morton’s main areas of statistical studies are
range from statistical problems in biology and
meta-analysis, sampling of vulnerable populations,
biomedicine to computational and mathematical
statistics in public policy, health services research,
aspects of statistics and machine learning.
and evidence-based medicine. She has published
more than 100 papers in methodological, clinical,
and health policy journals.
An active member of the ASA, Morton chaired
several committees, as well as volunteered her time as
RebecR ca M. Blank
associate editor for Statistical Science in 1998, Journal
President’s Invited Address of the American Statistical Association from 1995–
“ Measurement Matters: Why
2000, and Journal of Computational and Graphical
GGood Statistics Are Important
Statistics from 1991–1994. A Fellow of the ASA and
toto Understanding the Well-
AAAS, she has received numerous honors, includ-
BBeing of American Families”
ing the AAPOR Policy Impact Award in 2005 and
MMonday, August 3, 4:00 p.m.
AHSR Article-of-the-Year Award in 2000.
Rebecca M. Blank is the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow
at the Brookings Institution and a leading expert on JerJe ome H. Friedman
poverty issues. Prior to coming to Brookings, she was
Wald Lecture Series
dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
at the University of Michigan and co-director of the
“ Faast Sparse Regression
National Poverty Center. She also served as a member
and Classificationan ”
of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from
Tuuesday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.
1997–1999.
“ Decision Trees and
Blank’s research has focused on the interaction
Gradient BoostingG ”
between the macroeconomy, government anti-
Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m.
poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being
“ Predictive Learning via
of low-income families. Her 1997 book, It Takes a
Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty, won the
Rule Ensembles”
Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book
Thursday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.
in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. Her
more recent work includes the books The New
World of Welfare, Is the Market Moral?, Working and
Jerome H. Friedman is professor emeritus of sta-
Poor, and Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit,
tistics at Stanford University. He earned both
and Banking Among Low-Income Families.
bachelor’s and PhD degrees in physics from the
Blank is a faculty affiliate of the National Bureau
University of California, Berkeley. He was leader of
of Economic Research and a member of the American
the Computation Research Group at the Stanford
Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also has served in
Linear Accelerator Center from 1972–2006 and
a variety of advisory and professional roles.
professor of statistics at Stanford University from
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