President
IMS President Peter Bühlmann comments on the IMS Fellowship elections, and our new class of Fellows, announced here:
I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the “newly appointed IMS Fellows”:https://imstat.org/2023/05/02/2023-ims-fellows-announced/ for their outstanding achievements. I am truly delighted to see that IMS has 27 new and stellar…
On September 8th, 2021, Krzysztof Burdzy became the President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The next day Adam Jakubowski obtained the “Bernoulli Book” — the symbol of presidency of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS). Both presidents of the sister societies grew up in Poland…
A Time for Reflection and Reinvigoration
IMS President Regina Liu reports on recent developments, and outlines some exciting new initiatives:
It has been a year of stress and anxiety, with the pandemic overshadowing all aspects of our lives. We have all continued to adapt, from the initial struggles to the…
Xiao-Li Meng writes his final President’s Column, before handing on the gavel to the next IMS President, Susan Murphy, at JSM…
It has been so long since I was quarantined by the joy of learning as a student, a form of joy whose purity many of us only recognize decades…
IMS President Xiao-Li Meng writes another President’s Column:
We statisticians have successfully—perhaps too successfully—taught everyone that the larger the size, the higher the power to lend credence to an alternative. This is evident from the 2017 Nature Human Behaviour’s “Redefine Statistical Significance,” which has over 70 authors, and from the…