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April 2, 2025
On January 3, 2025, former US President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science, America’s highest honor for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology. Among the medal winners was IMS Fellow Emery Neal Brown.
Emery Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of…
We have just learned of the peaceful passing on March 19 of Paul Shaman, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Paul received the IMS Carver Medal in 2004 for his long service as Managing Editor. He was instrumental in creating and maintaining the IMS Scientific…
Our contributing editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, recalls his early experiences of attending conferences as a young, green student… and the transformative power of simply being acknowledged.
I still remember my first conference. I was an inexperienced graduate student with some vague idea about conferences as mediums…
Boaz Nadler earned his BSc, Msc and PhD degrees all from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. After his PhD, he spent three years as a Gibbs instructor / assistant professor at Yale University. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where is now…
George Stepaniants is an NSF MSPRF postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences working with Professor Andrew Stuart. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2024 in the Department of Mathematics co-advised by Professors Philippe…