Nominations are now being accepted for the
2007 Savage
Awards. Deadline for submissions is 10 October 2007.
Details follow.
This year we are pleased to announce two Savage Awards of $750 each and two
Savage Honorable Mention Awards of $250 each for 2007 in the following areas: Theory and
Methods: for a dissertation that makes important original
contributions to the foundations, theoretical developments, and/or
general methodology of Bayesian analysis. Applied
Methodology: 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. A dissertation may be nominated by the
author, by the adviser, by the department chair, or by any ISBA or
SBSS member (joining ISBA
is easy). All dissertations that have not yet been nominated are
eligible, but a dissertation may be nominated only once. Nomination
is made by on-line submission of the dissertation and a letter that
describes the main theoretical, methodological, and/or applied
contributions of the dissertation and specifies that the dissertation
is being nominated for either the Theory and Methods prize or the
Applied Methodology prize. The dissertations will be evaluated by
the Savage Award Committee. Finalists will be selected by
the end of January
and will be invited to present their work at
ISBA 2008: 9th
ISBA World Meeting in Hamilton Island, Australia in late July 2008,
with the winners announced at the meeting.
The submissions period for the 2007 awards closed on 2007-10-11 20:00:00.