The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference on pure and applied mathematics as well as one of the oldest scientific congresses. ICMs are run every four years by the International Mathematical Union in partnership with host country organizers. ICM 2022 will meet July 6–14 in St. Petersburg,…
The International Association of Survey Statisticians has congratulated Professor Partha Lahiri on his 2020 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation and Professor Wayne A. Fuller on his 2021 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation. Lahiri and Fuller were awarded their prizes at the ISI satellite conference…
IMS Council has approved the appointment of Grace Yi and Gang Li as co-editors of the Electronic Journal of Statistics, as recommended by the joint IMS/Bernoulli Society Committee to Select Editors. Their terms will be January 1, 2022–December 31, 2024. They take over from Domenico Marinucci, who has served as…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, continues his Hand Writing column:
The phrase Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is becoming ubiquitous. AI is said to hold the promise of revolutionising the human condition in innumerable ways, from taking over boring and dangerous tasks, through improving medical treatments and…
Anirban DasGupta poses a statistical puzzle, looking at an easily understood Bayes problem that appears paradoxical at first glance, and it is hard to find a non-mathematical purely intuitive explanation for it. All PhD students in statistics most likely have seen parts of this specific problem in a standard course.…