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August 31, 2021
S. James (Jim) Press, a distinguished professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Riverside, passed away November 25, 2020, just shy of his 90th birthday.
The field of statistics has lost one of its greats in the area of Bayesian multivariate analysis. Jim’s fundamental research contributions were in…
Ming Li, who is the chair of the committee for the ASA’s Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences (SPES) Award, writes:
We received seven nominations for the SPES Award this year. The SPES Award Committee reviewed the nomination letters and support materials and chose the winner for this year to be…
The 2020 Treasurer’s Report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2020. The 2020 fiscal year-end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2021, after the auditors have completed the annual process.
In 2020, the total number of IMS members increased. Subscriptions by institutions…
The Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bernoulli Society (BS) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), took place virtually at the Seoul National University, Korea from July 13 to 19, 2021. Scientific Program Committee chair Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute) and Local Organizing…
Second workshop on Emerging Data Science Methods for Complex Biomedical and Cyber Data
October 14–15, 2021. Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia
w https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/dphs/workshop2/
The workshop features several eminent speakers who are pioneers in the fields of data science including big data analytics. The workshop aims to foster the collaborative research between…