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Hira L. Koul, President of the Indian Statistical Association, writes: The Indian Statistical Association was established in 1960 at Bombay (now Mumbai). The late Professor M.C. Chakrabarty, the founding Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Bombay, was its first Secretary and Prof. A. M. Kshirsagar was the first…

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Featuring news items about Itai Benjamini, Johan Fellman, Michael Akritas, S.N. Lahiri, Dimitris Politis, Jerome Reiter, Alan Karr, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, and the IMS online journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability

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We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM in August about assessing our professional works. The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is asking for comments on the possibility…

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Editor-in-Chief of the new Stochastic Systems journal is Peter W. Glynn, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He writes: The IMS and the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS are engaged in the cooperative publication of a new online open access (free) journal called Stochastic

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IMS Members: you can now access JCGS (the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics) free as part of your membership. Login to the members’ area to read the latest issue.…

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