From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Did you know that IMS has a growing collection of plenary speaker videos on our YouTube channel? You can watch them at
https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat
Four plenary talks from the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science) are the latest to be added.
These are “Scaling up Bayesian Modeling and…
Access the YoungStatS website at: https://youngstats.github.io/
You can read the latest YoungStatS blog post, on Bayesian nonparametrics, here.
Its author, IMS member Dr. Beatrice Franzolini (Bocconi University, Italy) is currently chair-elect of the junior ISBA (j-ISBA, International Society for Bayesian Analysis) section.
Look out for another YoungStatS article in an…
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Richard Floyd Gundy passed away peacefully on February 20th, 2023. He was 89 years old.
Dick graduated from Illinois College. He went on to earn a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Indiana University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Fascinated with the statistics…
Donald Guthrie passed away peacefully on November 18, 2022, with family by his side. He was 89.
Don was born to Donald and Clair Guthrie in Eureka, CA, on July 8, 1933. Don graduated high school at 16 and subsequently graduated from Stanford University. He went on to complete an…
Don Pierce had a habit of continuing email threads with his collaborators years after a previous message without missing a beat in the conversation. Such instant-restart conversations reflected a profound intellectual concentration, a dogged pursuit of deeper understanding, and the special importance he placed on his collaborative relationships. These conversations…