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November 16, 2023
A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_51_6/aop_51_6.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…
November 15, 2023
The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year $800,000 grant, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. The Fellowship is designed to provide recipients with the flexibility to pursue their…
Richard Olshen, 1942–2023
IMS Fellow Richard Olshen passed away on November 8. He was Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Among his honors and awards, he was a Fellow of ASA, IEEE, and the AAAS, and was a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Olshen’s research was applications of…
Jian Ding, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, has been awarded the 2023 Liné and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (known as the Loève Prize).
Jian Ding earned his PhD in Statistics, focusing on probability theory, at UC Berkeley in 2011. His research area…
Adam Jakubowski presented the Willem van Zwet Medal to Thomas Valentin Mikosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) in a ceremony during the opening of the 34th European Meeting of Statisticians in Warsaw, on July 3, 2023. More details about this award can be found at https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes/53-general/323-willem-van-zwet-medal, and an interview with…