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May 17, 2020
Occasionally, a mathematician passes on who is much more than the sum of his work, considerable as that might be. A person, perhaps, whom people felt the better for having known. A person who always had a smile, a glint in the eye, a beguiling charm, a ready happiness to…
Deadline July 1, 2020.
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
After our last puzzle with probabilities on hyperspheres [see solution below], it is now time to turn our thoughts again to something in statistics. This time it’s a problem on epidemiology. Anirban DasGupta deliberately leaves this problem incompletely formulated. A correct…
We congratulate the 2020 Class of IMS Fellows, elected for their outstanding research record and service to the statistics/probability community. They are:
Louigi Addario-Berry, McGill University: For fundamental contributions to probability, in particular to the topics of branching structures and random graphs, and for his devoted service to the mathematical…
Looking to stay up to date on developments in health care technology around the world? The American Statistical Association is sponsoring The Pod of Asclepius, a new podcast where data scientists, statisticians, engineers, and regulatory experts discuss the technical challenges in their healthcare domain. We have over 20 episodes…
The World of Probability becomes One…
Leif Döring and Andreas Kyprianou write:
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of big changes in many aspects caused by the COVID-19 virus and its consequences. Research, as a truly global activity, has also been affected severely. Conferences, schools, research visits…