From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Last month, the probability and statistics communities lost one of their legendary figures. Murray Rosenblatt passed away on October 9, 2019 in San Diego at the age of 93.
Murray was born September 7, 1926, and raised in New York City. After graduating from the City College of New York,…
Contributing Editor Yoram Gat writes:
The practice of sortition—appointing decision-making bodies via statistical sampling—has been gaining ground in recent years. Very recently, an allotted body has been convened by the French government to propose ways to deal with climate change. In Belgium, a permanent advisory body appointed by sortition has…
The IMS Treasurer’s Report was published in the September 2019 issue of the IMS Bulletin. The report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2018.
The 2018 fiscal year-end audit report has now also been completed, and it is posted online on the Council Reports page.…
Regular readers of the IMS Bulletin probably know that, as well as reading the news items and articles that we publish in print, you can also access them online via the Bulletin’s website. Each issue is available as a PDF to download, and we also post news, columns and articles…
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awarded several of its awards this year to IMS members:
The SSC Gold Medalist 2019 is Bruno N. Rémillard, HEC Montreal. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or…