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February 17, 2020
Canadian statistician Colin Ross Blyth died on August 22, 2019, at the age of 96. Born in Guelph, Ontario, on October 24, 1922, he studied at Queen’s University, Kingston (BA, 1944), the University of Toronto (MA, 1946), and the University of California at Berkeley (PhD, 1950), where he was Erich…
Professor Janos Galambos, a well respected and influential mathematician, passed away on December 19, 2019 at the age of 79. Galambos is survived by his wife, Éva Galambos.
Janos Galambos was born in Zirc, Hungary, on September 1, 1940. He entered Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1958 and graduated…
Professor Emeritus Jonathan D. Cryer passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa City on December 11, 2019, after a long battle with ampullary cancer.
Jon, who was born February 10, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio, earned his PhD in Statistics in 1966 from North Carolina State University, Durham, where he…
The following meetings are newly listed in the March IMS Bulletin. You can browse the complete list of meetings around the world and if you’re organizing one, add the details here.
Second Workshop: Emerging Data Science Methods for Complex Biomedical and Cyber Data (IMS co-sponsored)
March 26–27, 2020. Augusta,…
February 13, 2020
Abstract Submission is now open for the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. The deadline for submission is March 31.
Early bird registration ends May 31.
See https://www.wc2020.org/mail/m-e02.html for more details.…