Pilar Iglesias Travel Award
The Pilar Iglesias Travel Award is provided for one or two graduate students or young researchers from a developing nation to participate in an ISBA World Meeting or Valencia meeting.
Pilar Iglesias was a research leader in Latin America in the areas of Bayesian theory and analysis and an outstanding educator. She contributed to the profession through service in ISBA and in the Chilean Statistical Association and was a dedicated mentor of students and young researchers. A fund in memory of Pilar has now been established by ISBA. The goal is to raise $20,000 to endow this award in her name, to be given in perpetuity.
The recipient of the Pilar Iglesias Travel Award for ISBA08 is Mauricio Castro Cepero, a PhD student of Statistics in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Mauricio was selected as the most highly ranked eligible candidate based on a competitive ranking of abstracts submitted for ISBA08 travel awards.
We ask that you consider making a contribution to the fund. Any amount, even if small, will help ISBA reach its goal. The funds are managed by ISBA. The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Pilar's home institution, provided the initial $5,000 to the fund. To make a contribution please visit the web site http://www.ams.ucsc.edu/~bruno/cgi-bin/iglesias.cgi. Using the secure online system is strongly encourage
For information regarding the Pilar Iglesias Fund and other funds maintained by ISBA, please visit http://www.bayesian.org/awards/funds.html
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