After two decades of advancing research in statistics, applied mathematics and domain science, SAMSI closed down at the end of August 2021. It celebrated its achievements with a final conference (in hybrid format) on August 21, where a host of distinguished speakers addressed a range of topics to which SAMSI…

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Richard “Rich” J. Fox, a longtime member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Marketing Department faculty at the University of Georgia, died December 2, 2020, at this home in Athens, Georgia. He was 78.  Born in New York, Rich earned his undergraduate degree from the University of…

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Peter Whittle, who died on 10 August 2021 at 94 years of age, will be remembered as a pioneer across the fields of probability, statistics and optimization. He wrote a number of important papers, but it is in his books that one can best appreciate the broad sweep of his…

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A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_49_5/aop_49_5.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_15_3/aoas_15_3.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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