IMS Bulletin
A cautionary tale from our contributing editor, Daniela Witten:
During my first few years as faculty, I traveled far and wide to give invited talks at department seminars and conferences. At the beginning, the travel was fun, and helpful for my career as I built out my professional network. But…
C. R. Rao, a giant in statistical theory who blazed the field over an 80-year research career died on August 22, 2023, two weeks short of his 103rd birthday.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born in Karnataka, India, on September 10, 1920. Rao was known to be a very good student…
In the September 2022 Bulletin issue, we introduced a new “Invitation to Research” section, kicked off by Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Senior Statistician at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, USA. Alex invited members to collaborate on Quantitative Perturbation Theory for Stochastic Processes, which since created…
Linbo Wang and Dehan Kong report:
The 23rd Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (NRC) convened at the University of Toronto Scarborough from August 2–5, 2023: see https://sites.google.com/site/linbowangpku/nrc-2023. The conference was attended by 69 emerging researchers and 13 senior speakers and panelists, hailing from the United States,…
Planning is well underway for the 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, organized by the Bernoulli Society (BS) and IMS, August 12–16, 2024, on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Germany. The scientific program will have 16 plenary talks, more than 40 invited paper sessions, and a…