From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
British mathematician and computer scientist Richard Gibbens has died, following a short illness. He was 56. Richard’s research interests included the mathematical modelling of networks especially communication, road transport and energy networks. He was a Reader at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and had just been promoted to a…
The IMS Treasurer, Zhengjun Zhang, presents the report of the Institute’s finances. The report details membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2017. You can download the report as a PDF here, or read it as part of the October/November issue Bulletin47_7.
The 2017 fiscal year end…
Xiao-Li Meng is the IMS President for 2018–19. He writes:
No vibrant society would want as its president someone who feels entitled to the honor, or treats it as an honorary title. I am therefore honored by your trust, and shall do my best to earn the honor. No society…
The American Statistical Association elected 60 new Fellows this year, among whom are 16 IMS members and/or Fellows: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Moulinath Banerjee, Aurore Delaigle, Peter David Hoff, Bing-Yi Jing, Christina Kendziorski, James O. Ramsay, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Peter X. Song, Zhiqiang Tan, Boxin Tang, Huixia Judy Wang, Lan Wang, Yichao…
IMS Fellow Don Rubin, IMS member Edo Airoldi, and Vishesh Karwa, have all joined the Department of Statistical Science at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.
Donald B. Rubin, professor of statistics at Yau Mathematics Center, Tsinghua University, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, has been appointed Murray Schusterman Senior…