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May 15, 2019
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…
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 …
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;…
Contributing Editor David Hand, Imperial College London, explains how a US state lottery was gamed:
We statisticians all know that buying lottery tickets is a fool’s game. Unless, that is, you regard the warm glow from dreaming about what you would do if you did win as worth the cost…
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_2/aihp_55_2.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…