IMS Bulletin
The Bernoulli Society’s 2018–19 New Researcher Awards were awarded to IMS members Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan; and Lingzhou Xue, Penn State University. Among the Honorable Mentions was Quentin Berthet, University of Cambridge, UK.…
New IMS President Susan Murphy was interviewed at the International Statistical Institute’s 62nd World Statistics Congress, which was held in Kuala Lumpur in August. You can watch her talking with Anne Edwards in the WebTV section of the ISI2019 website, at https://www.isi2019.org/isi-wsc-2019-webtv/ Also interviewed were the Presidents — all women…
The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is a worldwide organisation for professional applied mathematics societies—including IMS—and for other societies with a significant interest in industrial or applied mathematics. At the ICIAM Congress in Valencia in July, discussions took place at the meeting of presidents and the ICIAM…
Nominations are invited for the following awards.
Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation
In order to promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta examines the sometimes unpleasant reasons behind the widely varying ratios of male and female populations around the world, and considers the role of statistics in detecting patterns:
It was observed at least 300 years ago that, for reasons that are not fully understood, the biology of…