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November 15, 2018
Juan C. Meza is Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the US National Science Foundation. IMS President Xiao-Li Meng invited him to share some opportunities to reach out to Computer Science and Math or explore new partnerships with the domain sciences.
These are exciting times in mathematics…
Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, writes:
Suppose that you and a group of friends play the following game. Everybody guesses an integer between 1 and 100. You win by getting closest to half of the median sample of guesses, and the winner takes home the dollar amount s/he had guessed. What…
Peter Hall played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. To memorialize Peter in a manner that matched his dedication, the IMS Council created the Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize. To date, we have received over $86,000 in…
Interview: Dietrich Stoyan
Elja Arjas kindly agreed to interview Dietrich Stoyan, a renowned German probabilist, statistician, and an IMS Fellow, who has written an unusual book about his rather unusual life.
Dietrich was born in 1940, at the time when WWII was raging in Europe. He lost his father in…
Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes:
This past summer I was asked in a Q&A session what I consider to be a “sexy” topic in statistics [1]. Not being able to speak about sexiness in front…