IMS news
The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect (Erwin Bolthausen) and, this year, 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Sourav Chatterjee, Richard Davis, Holger Dette, Rick Durrett, Steffen Lauritzen, Susan Murphy, Leonid Mytnik, James Norris, Akimichi Takemura, Jonathan…
IMS President Hans Künsch writes:
Back in the eighties, my main reason for joining IMS was that this allowed me to purchase my own copy of the Annals of Statistics at a cheap price. Although the Annals were also available at three different libraries at my university, that was an…
The IMS has a Facebook page: find us at https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI. Give us a “like” if you like!…
One of the final acts of the outgoing IMS President is to deliver the Address at the IMS annual meeting. Ruth Williams, who is now Past-President, delivered this at the World Congress in July.
The IMS mission is “to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of…
The new IMS President for 2012-2013, Hans R. Künsch, writes:
I took over as president in July at the World Congress, and I have been quite busy since then in my new role, having already sent and received several hundred emails related to IMS. One of the most important duties…