IMS Bulletin
Theo Gasser died on October 1, 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Biostatistics at the University of Zürich, at the age of 82.
Theo Gasser was born on May 9, 1941, in Rüti, Switzerland. Gasser established Biostatistics at the University of Zürich starting…
Colin Lingwood Mallows was born on September 10, 1930, in Great Sampford, a small village in Essex, England. His father was the village policeman, who later became Chief Inspector at the police headquarters in Chelmsford, responsible for education and record-keeping with regard to road safety. In this role his father…
WNAR / IMS / Graybill 2024
June 9–12, 2024
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
https://wnar.org/wnar2024
The 2024 meeting of the Western North American Region of the IBS will be held jointly with the 2024 Graybill Conference. There will be short courses, a plenary lecture, Graybill keynote speech and keynote panels from…
The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year $800,000 grant, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. The Fellowship is designed to provide recipients with the flexibility to pursue their…
Richard Olshen, 1942–2023
IMS Fellow Richard Olshen passed away on November 8. He was Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Among his honors and awards, he was a Fellow of ASA, IEEE, and the AAAS, and was a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Olshen’s research was applications of…