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November 15, 2019
Yuval Peres recalls hearing the following story from Shizuo Kakutani in 1991, when he was a postdoc at Yale. He relates:
“Once, during 1960, Paul Erdős was visiting the US, and he stayed at Aryeh Dvoretzky’s NYC apartment. One day, Shizuo Kakutani drove from Yale to see them. After a…
Please consider nominating your outstanding colleagues and collaborators for these IMS awards.
A candidate for IMS Fellowship shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit. Candidates for fellowship should be members of IMS when nominated. You may like to read the…
Last month, the probability and statistics communities lost one of their legendary figures. Murray Rosenblatt passed away on October 9, 2019 in San Diego at the age of 93.
Murray was born September 7, 1926, and raised in New York City. After graduating from the City College of New York,…
Contributing Editor Yoram Gat writes:
The practice of sortition—appointing decision-making bodies via statistical sampling—has been gaining ground in recent years. Very recently, an allotted body has been convened by the French government to propose ways to deal with climate change. In Belgium, a permanent advisory body appointed by sortition has…
The IMS Treasurer’s Report was published in the September 2019 issue of the IMS Bulletin. The report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2018.
The 2018 fiscal year-end audit report has now also been completed, and it is posted online on the Council Reports page.…