From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
We are deeply saddened to report that Steve Fienberg’s widow, Joyce, was among the 11 people murdered on October 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, USA. She was 75. Former IMS President Steve Fienberg passed away almost two years ago: https://imstat.org/2017/04/obituary-stephen-e-fienberg-1942-2016/.
Our thoughts are with Joyce’s…
There is still time to consider who to nominate for these distinguished IMS awards. Nominations are open for the following IMS Awards for 2019:
• Tweedie New Researcher Award, deadline December 1.
• Carver Medal, deadline February 1.
• IMS Fellowship, deadline January 31.
For more information…
If you’re feeling overwhelmed at the world’s new-found interest in and demand for statistics, IMS President Xiao-Li Meng has a call to arms:
“I teach statistics” used to be an effective response when I was too tired to chat with a stranger, except that once it excited a taxi…
Juan C. Meza is Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the US National Science Foundation. IMS President Xiao-Li Meng invited him to share some opportunities to reach out to Computer Science and Math or explore new partnerships with the domain sciences.
These are exciting times in mathematics…
Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, writes:
Suppose that you and a group of friends play the following game. Everybody guesses an integer between 1 and 100. You win by getting closest to half of the median sample of guesses, and the winner takes home the dollar amount s/he had guessed. What…