From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
The IMS Committee to Select Editors has chosen Sonia Petrone as Editor of Statistical Science from January 1, 2020–December 31, 2022. Sonia, who is a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, will take over from Cun-Hui Zhang, who has served three years as…
Each year the IMS selects people to deliver named and Medallion lectures at our meetings.
In 2020, there will be three Medallion lectures at JSM in Philadelphia, USA (August 1–6, 2020), from Susan Holmes, Roger Koenker and Paul Rosenbaum.
Then, a couple of weeks later (August 17–21) and on the…
We recently learned that IMS member Salem Khamis had passed away in 2005 and no obituary was published in the Bulletin. This obituary is condensed (with permission) from Prasada Rao’s version that appeared in UK’s The Independent on Sunday newspaper, on 15 July 2005.
Salem Hanna Khamis was a mathematical…
The IMS would like to provide online access to all volumes of the IMS Bulletin. Currently, all issues since the beginning of 2002 are online, at https://imstat.org/ims-bulletin-archive/. However, prior to that we only have hard copies, which must be scanned. Since commercial scanning involves separating the pages, thus destroying…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
As might have been anticipated (jinxed?) by my thesis title, “Towards complete results for some incomplete problems,” self-pity for being incomplete has never left me. This is as true now as it was back when I accidentally reduced my almost complete thesis to merely its…