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March 31, 2020
Yuqi Gu is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, advised by Gongjun Xu. Her research interests include statistical machine learning, latent variable models, and psychometrics. Yuqi is passionate about developing theoretically principled and computationally efficient methods to solve problems of scientific interests. …
Current Index to Statistics finds a new home
Edward Dunne, the Executive Editor of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Mathematical Reviews, writes:
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is now hosted by the AMS. It is available on the MathSciNet servers: https://mathscinet.ams.org/cis. The database is openly available and uses a…
David John Finney was born in Warrington, UK, on January 3, 1917. His mathematical abilities were recognized by the local school and his parents were advised to transfer him to Manchester Grammar School. From there he won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, to study mathematics, until a health scare…
Susan (Sue) Wilson was born in Sydney on March 19, 1948. She was an undergraduate at the University of Sydney from 1965–1968, completing a BSc with First Class Honours, and she completed her PhD at the Australian National University (ANU) under the supervision of P.A.P. (Pat) Moran. The title of…
It’s time to think about who you would like to represent you on the IMS Council, and vote in the IMS elections. This year, the nominee for President-Elect is Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy. There are 10 candidates standing for the five available places on Council: Tony Cai, Richard Davis, Pablo A…