Recognizing that the interests of IMS members now span an enormous range from pure mathematical theory to collaborations with scientists in numerous fields, IMS is launching a new journal, The Annals of Applied Statistics, aimed at papers in the applied half of this range. Published quarterly in both print…

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The day it was announced that Varadhan would receive the 2007 Abel Prize, the editors of the IMS Bulletin invited me to write a profile “bio-sketch”. Having, as a consequence of writing two biographical pieces about him in the past, become his official biographer, I suppose they assumed that it…

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