From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Editor’s note: IMS Fellow Roger Farrell died in September 2017, but it’s recently come to light that we did not publish an obituary. The following appeared in the Cornell Chronicle in October 2017, and is reproduced with permission.
Roger H. Farrell, professor emeritus of mathematics, died September 28, 2017, at…
Contributing Editor Radu V. Craiu has been reflecting on the many ways in which we can all contribute—and it doesn’t mean a binary choice between research or service:
The life of an academic is simultaneously short and long. Its shortness is rooted in the belief, certainly popular among the disciplines…
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and Department of Biostatistics request nominations for the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. Eligible individuals are women who:
have completed their terminal degree
have made extraordinary contributions and have an…
Beginning in 2022, the IMS will allocate an IMS session at our Annual Meeting to be a joint IMS/RSS session in exchange for a joint RSS/IMS session at the RSS Annual Conference.
The IMS Annual Meeting in 2022 will be in London, UK, June 27–30 2022. The Program and Local…
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) jointly created the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the late Dr. Hirotugu Akaike, who greatly influenced a wide range of research by proposing the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and establishing a novel paradigm…