In the March 2016 issue, Alexander Volfovsky wrote about the recently formed New Researchers Group (NRG). You can read it at https://imstat.org/2016/02/introducing-the-new-researchers-group/. We caught up with the other member of the NRG committee, Dan Sussman, to find out what has been happening more recently. — The New Researchers Group…

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Terry Speed knows that if you want to find something out (from your data), you should ask, rather than assume.

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Richard Davis delivered his IMS Presidential Address at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, at the Fields Institute in Toronto on July 11, 2016. The video of this talk, which includes slides and three embedded videos can be accessed from http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/video-archive or http://www.stat.columbia.edu/​~rdavis/PresidentAddress2016.ogv (the address starts at the 14:45…

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In the April/May 2016 issue we reported that the winner of the 2016 Tweedie New Researcher Award was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. Alexandre presented the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from July 28–30, immediately before JSM. The call for nominations…

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Joel B. Greenhouse, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, was invited to present the inaugural Rod Little Distinguished Lecture in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. The award honors the many significant contributions to the statistical sciences of Rod Little, the…

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