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May 15, 2019
Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/ The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures in 2019: 2020 & 2021 Wald Lecturers 2020 Le Cam Lecturer 2022 Medallion Lecturers Send your nomination by October 1, 2019. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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Joan Eliot Raup Rosenblatt, a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and former President of the Women’s Caucus of the ASA, died in Rockville, Maryland on 5 December 2018 at the age of 92. Her distinguished career in public service includes four decades…

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Interacting Particle Systems, Statistical Mechanics and Related Topics, A Conference to Honor the Contributions of Thomas M. Liggett on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (conference website) took place at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles…

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Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is June 25, 2019. Here’s Anirban’s latest puzzle. He says: To encourage many students to send an answer, we’re posing a very simple problem

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The ten winners of this year’s Hannan Travel Awards are: Satwik Acharyya, Texas A&M University; Joshua J. Bon, Queensland University of Technology; Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Harvard University; Hyeyoung Maeng, London School of Economics; Abhijoy Saha, The Ohio State University; Martin Wiegand, University of Manchester;…

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