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,…

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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…

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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.…

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A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_55_4/aihp_55_4.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/ For more information on journals published or…

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We are pleased to announce the following members have received the 2019 IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award: Yuqi Gu, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan         Didong Li, Department of Mathematics, Duke University         Ashwin Pananjady, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer…

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