From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Pressley Warwick (Warry) Millar, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away surrounded by his family, due to complications of heart failure on August 27, 2024. He was 85 years old.
Warry was born in Beverly, Mass., on June 1, 1939, to Norval Pressley and Marian…
EDIT: The deadline for your solutions is extended to July 1, 2025.
Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban…
The International Prize in Statistics Foundation has awarded Grace Wahba the 2025 prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning.
Professor Wahba was among the earliest to pioneer the use of nonparametric regression modeling. Recent advances in computing and…
The IMS New Researchers Group President Armeen Taeb shares some updates from the NRG:
The IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (a.k.a. the New Researchers Conference or NRC) will be held at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, July 31–August 2, 2025 (immediately before JSM). Junior…
In the last two issues of the IMS Bulletin, Xiao-Li Meng has taken us on an epicurean journey of wine, chocolate and whiskies, extracting a few teaching points along the way. To round off the three-part series, he takes us on an alphabetical exploration of the world of wine……