From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Physicist and computer scientist who wrote the first full implementation of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
Arianna W. Rosenbluth passed away on December 28, 2020. Born on September 15, 1927, in Houston, Texas, Arianna attended university at the Rice Institute, now Rice University, where she received a Bachelor of…
In 2019, Elizabeth Meckes was elected a Fellow of the IMS. She won a Simons fellowship for the 2020–2021 academic year, so she, her husband Mark, and their two children Juliette and Peter, traveled to Oxford to spend the year visiting Jon Keating. Sadly, late in 2020 she was diagnosed…
James Taylor died in Sevenoaks, Kent, on 22nd January 2020. He was born on 13th December, 1929 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, but spent most of the first decade of his life in Nigeria, where both his parents were missionary teachers. His family returned to Northern Ireland at the start of…
Our Contributing Editor Yoram Gat responds to the article by Jeffrey Rosenthal in the previous issue.
Yoram writes:
The January/February 2021 issue of the Bulletin carried a column by Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal about the inaccurate predictions of pollsters regarding the outcomes of the November US presidential elections. Some statisticians saw…
As you will have noticed, 2020 has been an unusual year for conferences and speakers! Many events that were scheduled for 2020 will now be happening in 2021 (or even 2022), as you can see in the calendar at the back of the Bulletin, or on the IMS website at…