News
October 2, 2020
We publish obituaries in the IMS Bulletin of any IMS member or IMS Fellow — and, on occasion, of other prominent members of our communities. Sometimes, the news of someone’s passing may take some time to reach us, so please, if you hear that a colleague or collaborator has died,…
IMS Fellow Hélène Menexia Massam, Professor of Statistics at York University, Toronto, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 71.
Née Kampouris, Hélène was born January 10, 1949 and grew up in Marseille, France. Soon after her admission to the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud at the age…
Xiangrong Yin, Professor of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, passed away suddenly on the afternoon of August 11th, 2020, at the age of 54.
Xiangrong Yin was born in 1966 in Changxing, China. His conscientious and hardworking traits, combined with his passion for mathematics, led him to study at…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes:
In an interview for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Robert Thurman, who was, until his retirement in 2019, the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, warned listeners about the potentially noxious and certainly annoying “stink of enlightenment,” which is the prideful attitude…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics collaborates with Cambridge University Press to publish two book series: the IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks. IMS members get a 40% discount: see the ad in the October/November issue on page 16.
Books in these IMS series have the advantage that, in addition to…