IMS Bulletin
Some information on the life of James Hannan, whose widow’s legacy has created the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Awards (see cover article).
James F. Hannan, Fellow of the IMS and professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University, died on January 26, 2010, at the…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains problems in statistics or probability. Solving them may require a literature search.
Student IMS members are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is January 15, 2018. The names and affiliations of student members who submit correct solutions, and …
Since his childhood, Terry Speed has loved measurements. While the methods have changed, measurement still has a central role in science, and statistics.
Alison Etheridge is IMS President, 2017–18. She writes:
Well, that was it. Jon Wellner handed over the gavel (and I rapidly handed it back to Elyse for safe keeping). Tati took a picture and, before I had a chance to think about it, cheerily persuaded me to write something for…
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2017 Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017, and honored three outstanding prize recipients (and IMS members). Donald B. Rubin, the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, received the 2017 C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize (pictured above). The 2017…