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July 16, 2023
Radu Craiu is being serious about the lessons to be learned from comedy:
I had a dream in which Poisson’s cousin claimed that the 21st century will be either humorous or poisonous. While I still look for a relevant reference, I confess that my 21st century is a lot more…
Aurore Delaigle is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at The University of Melbourne. Before moving to Melbourne in 2007, she held positions at the University of California at Davis and at San Diego, and at the University of Bristol.
Aurore’s main research interests include nonparametric estimation, measurement errors, deconvolution…
Layla Parast has learned a hard lesson:
Summer is my favorite time of year. To me, summer means watermelon, pools, and the smell of sunscreen and mosquito repellent. My favorite, well-known example explaining how correlation is not causation involves summer: the numbers show that ice cream sales and shark attacks…
Donald M. (Mike) Titterington sadly passed away last April after suffering for many years from Parkinson’s disease; he had spent his entire academic career at the University of Glasgow until his retirement in 2011. Mike was born in Marple, England, but moved at an early age to Stirling, Scotland and…
Tze Leung Lai, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, passed away on May 21, 2023, at the age of 77. He made far-reaching contributions to sequential statistical analysis and a wide range of applications in the biomedical sciences, engineering and finance. Tze received many honors for…