If you’re coming to the Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami, Florida (July 30 to August 4), please drop by the IMS booth in the Expo to say hello. If your students will be there, remind them that IMS membership is free, and provides them with online access to all the…
Aurore Delaigle will become the IMS’s Executive Secretary from August 2, 2011 to July 9, 2014, following Marten Wegkamp’s three-year term.
Aurore is a Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, with research interests in nonparametric estimation of curves, measurement errors, deconvolution…
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 IMS elections. The next President-Elect is Hans R. Künsch. The five new Council members, for a three-year term, are: Sandrine Dudoit, Steve Evans, Sonia Petrone, Christian P. Robert, and Qiwei Yao.
866 people (21% of members) participated in the elections.…
Is there actually any use for a dehydrated elephant?
Rick Durrett thinks that just because we can solve a
problem, it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re asking, or answering, the right question…
Bani K. Mallick has been promoted to distinguished professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University. Mallick is a pioneer researcher in the field of Bayesian nonparametric regression and classification and the author of Bayesian Methods of Nonlinear Classification and Regression. He does major collaborative research with scientists…