Obituary: Martin B. Wilk, 1922–2013
Martin B. Wilk, OC, died in Yorba Linda, California, on February 19, 2013; he was 90. Throughout his career, Martin demonstrated that a statistician can successfully span academia, industry and [ More.. ]
Read More...Medallion Lecture: Ya’acov Ritov
Ya’acov Ritov is professor in the Department of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 1983, and is a fellow of [ More.. ]
Read More...Medallion Lecture: Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA. He is a graduate of the Technion, Israel, and joined the faculty of UCLA in 1970, where he [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Top Inequalities for a PhD student
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: It is the mark of an instructed mind, said Aristotle, not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. Delicate and [ More.. ]
Read More...Debate: Are pseudo-academic journals worrying?
Jean Opsomer highlights the rise in dubious journals and conferences, and asks whether we—particularly new researchers—should be concerned: Many of us regularly receive email invitations to submit articles to journals [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: A Rant
Terry Speed is mad as hell that we are still struggling for gender equity after all these years. Are you doing something about it?
Read More...Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal Year 2012
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2012, and reviews the fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012) [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Elections 2013
The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect (Erwin Bolthausen) and, this year, 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: April/May 2013
Jingchen Liu receives 2013 Tweedie Award The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jingchen Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his PhD [ More.. ]
Read More...Medallion Lecture preview: Jeremy Quastel
A specialist in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations, Jeremy Quastel has been at the University of Toronto since 1998. He studied at McGill University, then the Courant [ More.. ]
Read More...Ethics in Publishing
Former IMS Bulletin Editor, and current Co-editor of JASA, Xuming He, writes: In order to disseminate our research results, we are expected to publish. We also publish to establish a [ More.. ]
Read More...The XL-Files: If You Think Statistics is Hard, Try History…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes: “Upstairs on the Square” is reputed in some circles to be the restaurant for dining and wining around Harvard Square. The probability therefore was not [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Damaraju Raghavarao, 1938–2013
Professor Damaraju Raghavarao, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Statistics in Fox School of Business, Temple University, died suddenly from cardiac arrest brought on by flu on February 6, 2013. [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Bob Blumenthal, 1931–2012
Robert McCallum Blumenthal passed away on November 8, 2012 at the age of 81, after a long illness. Bob, as he was known to one and all, was a mathematician [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Dayanand Naik, 1952–2012
Dayanand N. Naik, who was a Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, passed away on Friday, October 26, 2012, after a three-year [ More.. ]
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