We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2025 IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award:   Irina Gaynanova, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, for her significant contributions to the development of statistical methods for high-dimensional biomedical data. Her innovative matrix models for identifying partially shared signals and Gaussian copula models for mixed data types have advanced the field of statistical methodology.…

A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_52_6/aos_52_6.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_34_6/aap_34_6.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

This time we have a guest puzzle editor, Stanislav Volkov, who is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. (Anirban DasGupta will return with the next puzzles). Here is Stanislav’s puzzle: Puzzle 54 Let Tn=Y1+Y2+…+Yn be a “random walk” in the sense that Yi = ±1 and ℙ(Yi=1) = p for all i. What is the minimum and the maximum of the variance of Tn over all possible…

The PDF version of the January/February 2025 IMS Bulletin is online now: click here to download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/. Contents include: Members’ news: Susan Murphy wins Mosteller Award; John Aston elected FRS; Edward Kennedy wins Spiegelman Award; SIAM Fellows Art Owen and Mark Squillante; ISI elected members; Jim Berger selected as Hagler Fellow; Bhramar Mukherjee ENAR President-Elect Radu’s Rides: On …