From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Following “guest puzzler” Stanislav Volkov’s rotating wheel probability puzzle (solution below), Anirban DasGupta sets a statistics puzzle:
This is one of those quick-and-dirty methods, popularized by John Tukey, one that makes some intuitive sense, and can be very quickly implemented. This issue’s problem is about testing the equality of two…
The IMS Elections this year are for the IMS President and five places on Council. The nominees are:
For IMS President:
Susan Murphy
For IMS Council:
Vivek S. Borkar
Vanja Dukic
Christina Goldschmidt
Ruth Heller
Susan Holmes
Xihong Lin
Richard Lockhart
Gabor Lugosi
Nicolai Meinshausen
Kerrie Mengersen
You can read…
The US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 70 regular members and 10 international members. Among them is Nicholas Patrick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 396 of its members for 2017 in recognition of their contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.
In the AAAS Section on Statistics were five IMS members and Fellows.…
The International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) takes place August 1–9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (see http://www.icm2018.org/). The organizing committee have announced 21 plenary lectures, among which are two by IMS Fellows, Gregory Lawler and Michael I. Jordan (you can read the complete list here). The remaining…