2010 Society Medals & Prizes

The Guy Medal in Silver for 2010 is awarded to Iain M. Johnstone for his insightful, profound, and significant work on non-parametric and multivariate statistics, including his papers read before the Society `Wavelet shrinkage: asymptopia?' ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 57 (1995), 301-369, with D.L. Donoho, G. Kerkyacharian, and D. Picard) and ` Wavelet deconvolution in a periodic setting' (J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 66 (2004), 547-573, discussion and rejoinder, 657-652, with G. Kerkyacharian, D. Picard and M. Raimondo).

The Guy Medal in Bronze for 2010 is awarded to Omiros Papaspiliopoulos for his innovative work on Monte Carlo probabilistic inference for diffusion processes, including his paper read before the Society `Exact and computationally efficient likelihood-based inference for discretely observed diffusions' ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 68 (2006), 1-25, with A. Beskos, G. O. Roberts, and P. Fearnhead) and the paper `Particle filters for partially observed diffusions' ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 70 (2008), 755-777, with P. Fearnhead, and G. O. Roberts).

The Greenfield Medal for 2010 is awarded to Douglas C. Montgomery for his contributions to the effective industrial application of statistical methods, particularly process monitoring and optimisation, quality improvement and design and analysis of experiments, and for his influential and accessible expository work.

The Chambers Medal for 2010 is awarded to Sheila Bird for outstanding services to the Society. In particular, as the Society's Theme Director for External Affairs, she has engaged very effectively with the media and with parliamentarians and government bodies to promote both understanding of statistics and best practice in using statistics. In addition, she established the Society's statistical excellence in journalism awards and the statistical seminars for journalists, both of which are held in very high esteem.

An Honorary Fellowship for 2010 is awarded to Janet Darbyshire CBE for her use, interpretation and presentation of statistics in the world of clinical trials, particularly in the treatment of tuberculosis and the prevention and treatment of HIV, and also for the emphasis she has given to the need for clear statistical thinking for a problem and the importance of having statisticians involved in all projects.