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March 30, 2019
We are sad to report that David Hinkley, IMS Fellow and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, passed away January 11.
David, who was born in England, received his PhD at Imperial College London in 1969; he was a professor of statistics at the University of Minnesota, the University of…
Yoav Benjamini is the Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at the Department of statistics and Operations Research at Tel Aviv University. He holds BSc. In Physics and BSc and MSc. In mathematics from the Hebrew University (1976), and PhD in Statistics from Princeton University (1981). He is…
Charles Bordenave studied at Ecole Polytechnique in France, and received his PhD in 2006 under the supervision of François Baccelli. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley before joining University of Toulouse as a CNRS researcher. Since 2018, he has been CNRS researcher at Aix-Marseille University. His research interests are…
Professor Donald Rubin delivered the S.N. Roy Memorial Lecture at the Tenth Calcutta Triennial Symposium, December 27-30, 2018. Meeting organizer Partha Lahiri writes:
Professor Donald Rubin delivered the 15th S.N Roy Memorial lecture entitled “Conditional Calibration and the Sage Statistician,” on December 27, 2018, at the Tenth International Triennial Symposium,…
Are you bringing a child to the next IMS Annual Meeting (JSM in Denver, Colorado, July 27–August 1, 2019)? Apply to the IMS Child Care Initiative, and the IMS will reimburse 80% of the costs of privately arranged child care (for a dependent under 13), up to a…