IMS Bulletin
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College London, writes:
“Algorithm” seems to be the word of the moment. To those untrained in quantitative disciplines it can seem to be imbued with magical properties. Algorithms are what underlie speech recognition systems, self-driving cars, and optimal sat-nav route-finding systems. They are what…
September 24, 2021
Tallahassee, FL, USA and via Zoom
w http://stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard will be joining us on September 24, 2021 for this year’s Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship. The title of her upcoming talk…
Andrej Srakar is the coordinator and co-editor of the YoungStatS project of Young Statisticians Europe. He reports on their efforts at revitalizing statistics in the post-COVID period:
Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) is an initiative of a group of young professionals in statistics, econometrics and data analysis, launched during a workshop…
IMS President introduces Membership Survey
Regina Liu, the current IMS President, wanted to find out more about who IMS members are, what you want, and how the IMS can better serve you. She writes a preamble to the IMS 2021 Membership Survey Report below:
The IMS recently conducted a survey…
Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for:
the 2023 & 2024 Wald Lectures
the 2023 Blackwell Lecture
the 2023 Wahba Lecture
the 2024 Medallion Lectures (eight awards)
Send your nomination by October 1, 2021. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/.…