IMS Bulletin
Donald (Don) F. Morrison passed away peacefully on July 11, 2022 at the age of 91. He was a professor in the Department of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Prior to Penn, Don worked in research positions at…
Jessica Kohlschmidt reports: The inaugural International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science was celebrated online on October the 11th with support from Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS), Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE), and the American Statistical Association (ASA) and 35 other statistical and data science organizations around the…
The IMS Treasurer’s annual report is published online on the Council Reports page at https://imstat.org/council-reports-and-minutes/.
The report details membership and subscription data for 2021. The total number of IMS members increased, but the total number of paying members decreased. Subscriptions by institutions increased very slightly.
The financial status of…
In the September 2022 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. Alex says he’s…
Contributing Editor Daniela Witten writes:
I was in my second year of grad school when I first heard of “impostor syndrome”, the well-studied psychological phenomenon by which highly talented and accomplished people doubt their talent and accomplishments, and live in constant fear that the outside world will discover them as…