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March 29, 2021
Leo Goodman, one of the towering figures in statistics, and particularly in its application to sociology, died on December 22, 2020, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 92.
Leo was born in Brooklyn in 1928. He obtained a BA in mathematics and sociology in 1948 from Syracuse University,…
On December 21, 2020, Canada and the world lost one of their most eminent and influential statisticians, Donald Alexander Stuart Fraser, OC, FRSC, who passed away at the age of 95. By his side was his wife Nancy Reid, herself a distinguished statistician.
Don’s exceptional path as a scientist,…
Gordon Mackenzie Harrington, who was a longterm member of IMS, died in 2015 aged 90, but we only learned about his death recently.
The following is condensed from an obituary that appeared in the Waterloo Courier, and was reproduced on the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) website.
Gordon Harrington…
The 2021 JSM is still due to take place in Seattle, August 7–12, 2021, but, with the pandemic continuing to evolve, organizers are making plans for hybrid participation and have rethought parts of the program.
Submit your Contributed Abstract for JSM 2021 before April 14, 2021.
Registration will not be…
NOW ONLINE July 19–23, 2021
The 10th Bernoulli–IMS World Congress, hosted by Seoul National University, is now in virtual format. This Congress will have 14 (plenary) named lectures, one public lecture, 40 invited sessions featuring 120 speakers, contributed talks, and poster sessions.
Immediately prior to the World Congress, a two-day…