IMS news
New IMS Bulletin Editor Vlada Limic writes:
We are delighted to welcome to the Bulletin’s team of Contributing Editors the following “new faces”:
Yoram Gat (Google Israel)
Takis Konstantopoulos (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Regina Nuzzo (Gallaudet University, Washington DC, USA)
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University, RI, USA)
They will join the existing…
The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President and six places in the IMS Council. We introduce the candidates in the March 2017 IMS Bulletin and at this link.
Voting opens soon—look out for the email with your personalized link—and closes June 16.…
We are pleased to announce the next Executive Secretary will be Edsel Peña. Edsel is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. He will take over from Aurore Delaigle, who will have served two three-year terms, this August. The responsibilities of the…
IMS President 2016–17 Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington, writes:
History: Continuity and Discontinuity
In preparing to write this article for the Bulletin, I took the opportunity to read several of the introductory articles written by previous IMS Presidents over the past 10 years. These pieces convey a wonderful sense…
For many years, Statistical Science has published ‘Conversations’ with some of the many distinguished leaders in statistics and probability [see list, below]. These interviews are one of the most popular features of the journal. The personal opinions and experiences given in these interviews add a human touch, while also giving…