IMS Bulletin
Roman Vershynin is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. He works in high dimensional probability, with applications in data science. He is interested in random geometric structures that appear across mathematics and data science, in particular in random matrix theory, geometric functional analysis, convex and discrete geometry,…
Huixia Judy Wang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at George Washington University (2014– ) and a rotating Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (2018–2022). Judy obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Illinois in 2006. She was an…
Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The names of student members who submit correct solutions, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. His decision is final.
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Charles Mann—president of Charles R Mann Associates in Washington, DC; ASA Fellow; and longtime IMS member—passed away on February 14, 2022, after a long illness.
In 1996, Charles was elected a fellow of ASA, “for excellence in the application of statistical methodology in the legal and regulatory communities; and for…
Malcolm Ross Leadbetter died on February 26, 2022, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 90 years old. During a career that spanned over 50 years, he was a major influence on generations of researchers, as a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. He will be dearly missed.
Ross was born…