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November 15, 2024
The 2024 Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Probability has been awarded to “Stein’s method for comparison of univariate distributions,” Probability Surveys, vol. 14, pages 1–52, 2017. The authors are Christophe Ley (University of Luxembourg), IMS member Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford) and Yvik Swan (Free University of…
The Applied Probability Section of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has announced that the winner of its 2024 PhD prize in Applied Probability is Serte Donderwinkel. Serte’s thesis, “The structure of large random graphs,” concerns universality in large random structures. In her thesis, Serte developed a new proof…
At the conference to mark the 60th birthday of Jianqing Fan in May 2024, no fewer than eight current and former co-editors of the Annals of Statistics came together for this photo.
From left to right are: Runze Li, Ming Yuan, Jianqing Fan, Richard Samworth, Peter …
Meet the 2025 IMS special invited lecturers (i.e. those selected to give named and Medallion lectures). These will be delivered at three IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings next year.
The first of these meetings is the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which will take place June 30–July 3, 2025,…
What are the factors that make some university statistics departments go from rags to riches… and vice versa? Contributing Editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, has been thinking about this:
In an election year, one hears a lot about “haves” and “have nots” and how the gap between them is…