From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Winner of the 2021 COPSS Leadership Academy and author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World, Claire McKay Bowen, Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, talks with our contributing editor Ruobin Gong about data privacy, public policy research, and data science education.
RG: Claire, thank you…
Registration is open now for the 2022 IMS Annual Meeting (June 27–30, plus the one-day IMS-COLT meeting on July 1). Discounted rates for those who register by 15 May 2022. No more new submissions for talks, but you are warmly invited to register to participate in the conference.…
South East Probability Conference
May 31–June 1, 2022, at Duke University and August 8–9, UNC Chapel Hill
https://services.math.duke.edu/~rtd/SEPC2022/SEPC2022.html
There will be TWO 2022 Southeastern Probability Conferences this year, both IN-PERSON meetings. Speakers at the May 31–June 1 SEPC (Duke University, Durham, NC): Erik Bates (Wisconsin), Juraj Foldes (Virginia), Konstantin Matetski…
22nd Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
August 3–6, 2022
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (close to Washington DC)
https://imstat.org/nrc2022/
The IMS New Researchers Group excited to resume this in-person conference, taking place as usual immediately before JSM (which is in Washington DC, August 6–11, 2022).
All new…
“A giant in the field of statistics” passes away
Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox has passed away at the age of 97. Cox, who was described on the awarding of the inaugural International Prize in Statistics as “a giant in the field of statistics,” made many contributions including introducing…