From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
IMS President Xiao-Li Meng writes another President’s Column:
We statisticians have successfully—perhaps too successfully—taught everyone that the larger the size, the higher the power to lend credence to an alternative. This is evident from the 2017 Nature Human Behaviour’s “Redefine Statistical Significance,” which has over 70 authors, and from the…
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…