From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Subramanian Panchapakesan — known as Kesan among his numerous friends and colleagues — passed away on January 28, 2016, in Chennai (formerly Madras), the city in which he was born on August 27, 1933. Kesan graduated from Vivekananda College in Chennai with a BA(Hons) degree in Mathematics in 1954 and…
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Asit Basu, who passed away October 19, 2015, was Professor of Statistics at the University of Missouri Columbia. Born 1937 in India, he received undergraduate and master’s degrees, in 1956 and 1958, from the University of Calcutta and a PhD degree in Statistics from the…
Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, is the founding chief editor of the Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics. He was recently the speaker at a meeting in Malaysia, and reports:
The University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia organised a workshop on “Evidence-Based Decision and Statistical Meta-Analysis with…
Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI’s Deputy Director and Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, received an honorary doctoral degree in statistics from Thammasat University (TU) in Thailand. This is one of the highest forms of recognition a university can offer. Thammasat University primarily gives honorary doctorates to people from Thailand.…
We are pleased to introduce the candidates who are standing for election to the IMS Council in 2016. This year there is one candidate for President-Elect, and there are 10 candidates for five places on Council.
The President-Elect candidate is Alison Etheridge. The 10 Council candidates are, in alphabetical order:…