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April 2, 2025
Myles Hollander, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, passed away peacefully in Tallahassee, FL, on January 27, 2025. He was born in Brooklyn, NY on March 21, 1941. As an only child, Myles spent many afternoons at Ebbets Field and counted Jackie…
Pressley Warwick (Warry) Millar, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away surrounded by his family, due to complications of heart failure on August 27, 2024. He was 85 years old.
Warry was born in Beverly, Mass., on June 1, 1939, to Norval Pressley and Marian…
EDIT: The deadline for your solutions is extended to July 1, 2025.
Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban…
The International Prize in Statistics Foundation has awarded Grace Wahba the 2025 prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning.
Professor Wahba was among the earliest to pioneer the use of nonparametric regression modeling. Recent advances in computing and…
The IMS New Researchers Group President Armeen Taeb shares some updates from the NRG:
The IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (a.k.a. the New Researchers Conference or NRC) will be held at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, July 31–August 2, 2025 (immediately before JSM). Junior…