On March 29, 2019, Harry Kesten lost a decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He died in Ithaca, aged 87.
Harry was born in Duisburg, Germany, on November 19, 1931. His parents escaped from the Nazis in 1933 and moved to Amsterdam. After undergraduate studies in Amsterdam, he worked as a…
Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures in 2019:
2020 & 2021 Wald Lecturers
2020 Le Cam Lecturer
2022 Medallion Lecturers
Send your nomination by October 1, 2019. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/…
Joan Eliot Raup Rosenblatt, a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and former President of the Women’s Caucus of the ASA, died in Rockville, Maryland on 5 December 2018 at the age of 92. Her distinguished career in public service includes four decades…
Interacting Particle Systems, Statistical Mechanics and Related Topics, A Conference to Honor the Contributions of Thomas M. Liggett on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (conference website) took place at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is June 25, 2019.
Here’s Anirban’s latest puzzle. He says:
To encourage many students to send an answer, we’re posing a very simple problem …