From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Student Puzzle editor Anirban DasGupta set a problem about random walks, in the October/November issue. The deadline for submitting your solution is December 1, 2020. See the puzzle here.…
The IMS Treasurer’s annual report was published on page 16 of the September 2020 issue of the IMS Bulletin, which you can download from the website at https://imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bulletin49_6-TR.pdf.
The report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2019.
The 2019 fiscal year-end audit report has now…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow was a leading figure in the field of economic theory. Although he passed away in 2017, we only learned of this more recently, in the compilation of the IMS Scientific Legacy Database. Arrow was an IMS Fellow, among his many honors.
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Members of the Bernoulli Society’s Young Researchers Committee — Imma Curato, Sandro Gallo and Zhenhua Lin — interviewed Leif Döring, who acted as chair of the organizing committee of the first Bernoulli–IMS One World Symposium, which took place online August 24–28, replacing the World Congress in Seoul, which is…
As you will have noticed, there was no physical IMS Annual Meeting this year, as it was due to be held at the Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Seoul, which is now postponed to next year. This meant that the IMS meetings that would normally have taken place there were held…