From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Columnist Clara Grazian introduces our new advice column for early-career researchers:
Question 1: I am interested in pursuing an internship in a company, but my advisor thinks that this will slow down my dissertation progress. How should I proceed?
Clara responds: Ha, this is a great question! I believe there…
Andrej Srakar, University of Ljubljana, is the coordinator and Co-Editor of the YoungStatS project. He writes about random matrices in probability and mathematical physics:
We start our YoungStatS short contributions for the IMS Bulletin with a topic from probability theory, namely random matrix theory (RMT). In today’s mathematics,…
Send us your Invitation to Research
In the September 2022 IMS Bulletin, we introduced an “Invitation to Research” section, kicked off by Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Senior Statistician at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, USA. Alex invited members to collaborate on Quantitative Perturbation Theory…
The United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of 120 members, and 23 international members, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,565 and the total number of international…
The 2023 Rollo Davidson Prizes are awarded to IMS member Duncan Dauvergne (University of Toronto), for outstanding contributions to the theory of random sorting networks and for the construction and study of the directed landscape; and to Nina Holden (New York University) and Xin Sun (University of Pennsylvania) for leading…