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David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the selection committee for the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize, awarded as previously announced to Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller and Daniel Yekutieli (with posthumous acknowledgment to Yosef Hochberg). David gave the following speech at the award presentation.
Introduction
I was honoured to be…
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…
Claudia Kirch, professor of Mathematical Stochastics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, is the 2023–25 chair of the steering committee for Fachgruppe Stochastik, the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society. After Claudia spoke at the opening ceremony of the World Congress [see the meeting report here], we…
Eurostat is pleased to announce the third round of the European Statistics Awards for Nowcasting (https://statistics-awards.eu/), with a focus on international trade in goods. The competitions began in September 2024 with registration open until 30 October 2024.
The focus of the competitions is in forecasting three key…
IMSI, the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, located in Chicago, encourages qualified researchers in the mathematical sciences to submit a proposal to the NSF PRIMES program: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/partnerships-research-innovation-mathematical. The NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences’ Partnerships for Research Innovation in the Mathematical Sciences (PRIMES) program aims to enhance partnerships between minority-serving…