From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
After two decades of advancing research in statistics, applied mathematics and domain science, SAMSI closed down at the end of August 2021. It celebrated its achievements with a final conference (in hybrid format) on August 21, where a host of distinguished speakers addressed a range of topics to which SAMSI…
Richard “Rich” J. Fox, a longtime member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Marketing Department faculty at the University of Georgia, died December 2, 2020, at this home in Athens, Georgia. He was 78.
Born in New York, Rich earned his undergraduate degree from the University of…
Peter Whittle, who died on 10 August 2021 at 94 years of age, will be remembered as a pioneer across the fields of probability, statistics and optimization. He wrote a number of important papers, but it is in his books that one can best appreciate the broad sweep of his…
Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. Because of the pandemic, the 2020 Annual Meeting, which would have been at the World Congress in Seoul, didn’t happen, and Susan Murphy’s Presidential Address was postponed to this year. The 2020–21…
Bin Yu of the University of California, Berkeley has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) Faculty of Business and Economics in Switzerland. She was honored for being one of the most influential researchers of her time in statistics and data science, for the excellence and…