From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
On July 31, 2021, Matthew Marion Zack Jr. passed away at the age of 76, of pancreatic cancer. He was preceded in death by his father Matthew M. Zack Sr., mother, Ellen Dolores (Kulba) Zack, and brother, John M. Zack. He is survived by a special cousin, Judy Ann (Zack)…

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Invitation to sciences and social sciences early-career researchers to take part in a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their work lives and scholarly communication attitudes and behavior If you are an early career researcher in the sciences or social sciences, we want to hear from you…

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IMS member Brian King is among the winners of the 2022 Distinguished Paper Awards from the International Biometrics Society’s Eastern North American Region, ENAR. Brian is a PhD student, advised by Dan Kowal, the Dobelman Family Assistant Professor of Statistics, at Rice University. His paper is titled, “Warped Dynamic Linear…

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Deadline September 15, 2022. Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta poses what he calls, “an exercise in merriment, on basic statistical inference”: Your friend is thinking of a two-digit positive integer $N$ consisting of two distinct nonzero digits. The friend won’t tell you what $N$ is, but will give truthful answers…

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We’re excited to welcome you to London, for our first in-person IMS Annual Meeting since 2019. We invite you to join a gathering of statisticians, probabilists, data scientists and others, at the meeting in central London from June 27–30 (and, if your schedule allows, stay on for the one-day IMS–COLT

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