From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
It’s time to think about who you would like to represent you on the IMS Council, and vote in the IMS elections. This year, the nominee for President-Elect is Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy. There are 10 candidates standing for the five available places on Council: Tony Cai, Richard Davis, Pablo A…
The Bernoulli–IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be held at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, from August 17th to 21st, 2020. This quadrennial joint meeting is of steadily increasing importance to the scientific vitality of the fields of statistics and probability and their applications. The…
Professor Alan Welsh, Australian National University, has been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for his highly original and insightful contributions to the advancement of statistics. Professor Welsh was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy (FAA) in 2007 (and an IMS Fellow in 1990).
Alan Welsh has developed…
Members Jay Bartroff, Larry Goldstein and Gary Lorden were chosen by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) to be the statisticians on a committee with physicists, engineers, and baseball experts studying MLB’s recent surge in home runs. The committee studied vast amounts of game data, performed laboratory tests on…
The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing that brings together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presents them openly.
In a recent post, Roger C. Schonfeld reported: “At ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference, leaders from academic societies, libraries, publishers, and other organizations…