From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales.
Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend Johannes Ledolter who was a Professor of Statistics and Business at the University of Iowa and Emeritus Professor at the University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. Johannes passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa…
It’s the time of year when we introduce the people who are standing in the 2024 IMS Council elections. This year, along with Kavita Ramanan, the candidate for President-Elect, we have 10 candidates—Ivan Corwin, Philip A. Ernst, Martin Hairer, Tai Melcher, Axel Munk, Per Mykland, Igor Prünster, Jane-Ling …
ICSDS 2023 took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 2023. Organizers Regina Liu and Annie Qu received very positive feedback, and branded it “another huge success!”
ICSDS 2024 will be in Nice, France, in December 2024. Join us!
Regina Liu and Annie Qu write:
We are delighted to report…
The United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is honoring 20 individuals in 2024 with awards recognizing their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, social, and medical sciences.
Among the 2024 NAS award winners is Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,…