From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Philip Stark, University of California at Berkeley, to serve on the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors.
Established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), the EAC Board of Advisors is comprised of 37 individuals who assist the…
Professor Mark Girolami has been elected to the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In this role he will provide academic leadership for the Centre for Digital Built Britain across the University and more broadly throughout the national and…
ENAR (the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society), together with IMS and Sections of ASA, holds a meeting each spring. The ENAR 2020 Spring Meeting will be held at the JW Marriott Nashville from March 22–25, 2020. The meeting brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry…
The deadline for the student puzzle about phase transitions has been extended to December 1. If you’re a student member, email us your solution: bulletin@imstat.org…
Yuval Peres recalls hearing the following story from Shizuo Kakutani in 1991, when he was a postdoc at Yale. He relates:
“Once, during 1960, Paul Erdős was visiting the US, and he stayed at Aryeh Dvoretzky’s NYC apartment. One day, Shizuo Kakutani drove from Yale to see them. After a…