IMS Bulletin
We have two problems again—but this time the statistics problem and the probability problem are both based on the same story, and both are somewhat non-standard versions of the birthday problem. Student members of IMS are invited to send us your answers for either or both. The deadline is EXTENDED …
Do you sometimes feel like your fellow students or colleagues seem to be swimming, while you’re drowning in uncertainty? Let us help! Early-career researchers are invited to send their questions about the life of a researcher or ask for career advice, and the IMS Bulletin’s Clara-fications columnist, Clara Grazian, will…
We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2024 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University; Chanwoo Lee, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Yuling Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The award will fund their travel to next…
Congratulations to the following IMS members who have been chosen as Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute in the second round elections of 2023. They are Listed with their country, they are: Xueqin Wang (China), Vicky Fasen-Hartmann and Mats Julius Stensrud (Switzerland), Lu Wang and Xiaoke Zhang (USA). Read…
IMS Fellow and former president Alison Etheridge FRS, OBE, has been selected by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and the London Mathematical Society (LMS) to receive the 2023 David Crighton Medal. The announcement on the IMA website says, “Alison is a leading researcher and a world expert…