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June 28, 2026
The Bernoulli Society invites nominations for the 2027 Ethel Newbold Prize. Established in 2014, this biennial prize honours the significant contributions of women to the field of statistics. The award, generously supported by Wiley, recognises excellence in statistics without regard to the gender of the recipient.
The Ethel Newbold Prize…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has several prestigious Named and Medallion Lectures. Please visit https://imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/ for more information on these lectures.
The lectures that are currently available for nomination are: the 2028 IMS Neyman Award & Lecture; the 2028 IMS Rietz Award & Lecture; the 2028 IMS Grace Wahba Award…
Anirban DasGupta, Purdue University, investigates a link between fractals and food, specifically fruit and vegetables:
Although the use of the word fractal does not seem to have been made before the 20th century, the ideas of repetitive self-similarity in progressively smaller scales had already emerged at least as early…
Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their decades of work building and maintaining the R Project (https://www.r-project.org/). The 2026 laureates are: Brian Ripley, University of Oxford, UK; Martin Maechler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Kurt Hornik, Vienna University of…
On April 28, 2026, our teacher, mentor, colleague and friend Murad S. Taqqu passed away at the age of 84. Murad was one of the most influential probabilists and statisticians of his time who almost single-handedly developed the theory of self-similar stochastic processes, laid the groundwork for a systematic analysis…