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December 15, 2019
The Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP) 2020 will be held on March 4–7, 2020, (Wednesday through Saturday) at Michigan State University (MSU), in East Lansing, MI, USA. As well as informal presentations by conference participants, there will be plenary talks by the following five invited speakers: Martin Barlow (Kai Lai…
IMS Fellow David Allison (Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington) is a member of the committee that wrote a 2019 National Academies report on reproducibility and replicability in science. He appeared on November 13, 2019, before the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology to discuss recommendations and findings…
The IMS Committee to Select Editors has chosen Sonia Petrone as Editor of Statistical Science from January 1, 2020–December 31, 2022. Sonia, who is a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, will take over from Cun-Hui Zhang, who has served three years as…
Each year the IMS selects people to deliver named and Medallion lectures at our meetings.
In 2020, there will be three Medallion lectures at JSM in Philadelphia, USA (August 1–6, 2020), from Susan Holmes, Roger Koenker and Paul Rosenbaum.
Then, a couple of weeks later (August 17–21) and on the…
We recently learned that IMS member Salem Khamis had passed away in 2005 and no obituary was published in the Bulletin. This obituary is condensed (with permission) from Prasada Rao’s version that appeared in UK’s The Independent on Sunday newspaper, on 15 July 2005.
Salem Hanna Khamis was a mathematical…