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IMS President Michael Kosorok writes: I recall as a young assistant professor, reading a book in the university library on empirical processes, and trying to learn the concepts, when a senior professor walked up to me and said (approximately): “You should stop wasting your time on this, just accept the…

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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 for their outstanding achievements. I am truly delighted to see that IMS has 27 new and stellar…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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