From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
At the conference to mark the 60th birthday of Jianqing Fan in May 2024, no fewer than eight current and former co-editors of the Annals of Statistics came together for this photo.
From left to right are: Runze Li, Ming Yuan, Jianqing Fan, Richard Samworth, Peter …
Meet the 2025 IMS special invited lecturers (i.e. those selected to give named and Medallion lectures). These will be delivered at three IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings next year.
The first of these meetings is the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which will take place June 30–July 3, 2025,…
What are the factors that make some university statistics departments go from rags to riches… and vice versa? Contributing Editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, has been thinking about this:
In an election year, one hears a lot about “haves” and “have nots” and how the gap between them is…
Yuan Jiang, Armeen Taeb, and Pragya Sur report:
The 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (NRC) convened at Oregon State University from July 31 to August 3, 2024: see https://nrc2024.github.io/index. The conference was attended by 68 emerging researchers and 14 senior speakers and panelists, hailing from…
In the previous issue, the article about the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society referred to DAGStat, a consortium of statistical societies in Germany. Katja Ickstadt, professor at TU Dortmund University and DAGStat chairperson, and Sarah Friedrich-Welz, professor at University of Augsburg and secretary of DAGStat, tell…