IMS Bulletin
Peter Whittle, who died on 10 August 2021 at 94 years of age, will be remembered as a pioneer across the fields of probability, statistics and optimization. He wrote a number of important papers, but it is in his books that one can best appreciate the broad sweep of his…

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Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. Because of the pandemic, the 2020 Annual Meeting, which would have been at the World Congress in Seoul, didn’t happen, and Susan Murphy’s Presidential Address was postponed to this year. The 2020–21…

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Bin Yu of the University of California, Berkeley has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) Faculty of Business and Economics in Switzerland. She was honored for being one of the most influential researchers of her time in statistics and data science, for the excellence and…

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The Bernoulli Society 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize was awarded to Marloes Maathuis at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague.  The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biannually to an outstanding early- or mid-​career statistical scientist for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics, and/or…

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C. F. Jeff Wu, Professor and Coca Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology, has been honored with Sigma Xi’s Monie A. Ferst Award. This national-level award, sponsored by Georgia Tech’s Sigma Xi chapter, recognizes those who have…

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