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February 17, 2020
The 22nd IMS New Researchers Conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA, during its usual slot right before JSM. The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in statistics and probability and to provide them with valuable insights from leaders in the field. Hosted…
Canadian statistician Colin Ross Blyth died on August 22, 2019, at the age of 96. Born in Guelph, Ontario, on October 24, 1922, he studied at Queen’s University, Kingston (BA, 1944), the University of Toronto (MA, 1946), and the University of California at Berkeley (PhD, 1950), where he was Erich…
Professor Janos Galambos, a well respected and influential mathematician, passed away on December 19, 2019 at the age of 79. Galambos is survived by his wife, Éva Galambos.
Janos Galambos was born in Zirc, Hungary, on September 1, 1940. He entered Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1958 and graduated…
Professor Emeritus Jonathan D. Cryer passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa City on December 11, 2019, after a long battle with ampullary cancer.
Jon, who was born February 10, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio, earned his PhD in Statistics in 1966 from North Carolina State University, Durham, where he…
The following meetings are newly listed in the March IMS Bulletin. You can browse the complete list of meetings around the world and if you’re organizing one, add the details here.
Second Workshop: Emerging Data Science Methods for Complex Biomedical and Cyber Data (IMS co-sponsored)
March 26–27, 2020. Augusta,…