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May 17, 2020
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…
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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…
May 13, 2020
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures.
The following lectures are available for nomination in 2020.
Information on all lectures can be found here: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/
2022 Neyman Lecturer
2022 Rietz Lecturer
2023 Medallion Lecturers
Deadline is October 1.
To submit a nomination,…