Alexander Volfovsky is Assistant Professor of Statistical Science, and Co-Director of The Polarization Lab, at Duke University. He is currently the President of the IMS New Researchers Group. He writes:  The last two years have been long for everyone, and one of the things missing from the annual IMS calendar…

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The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) presents the Mortimer Spiegelman Award annually to honor a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.  The award was…

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The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2022 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize. The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for…

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Call for Topic Contributed Sessions and Contributed Talks for the 2022 IMS Annual Meeting: closes 15 February, 2022 The 2022 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in London, UK, June 27-30. We plan to hold a normal in-person conference, but with an online format as a fall-back option. Following requests…

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Aristotle Arapostathis, ‘Ari’ to his friends, lost his battle with cancer of the liver on May 19th, 2021, not too long after he was diagnosed with it. Born in 1954 in Athens, Greece, he was the only son of Theodoros and Eleni Arapostathis. After his schooling in Athens College, he…

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