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April 2, 2025
Boaz Nadler earned his BSc, Msc and PhD degrees all from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. After his PhD, he spent three years as a Gibbs instructor / assistant professor at Yale University. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where is now…
George Stepaniants is an NSF MSPRF postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences working with Professor Andrew Stuart. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2024 in the Department of Mathematics co-advised by Professors Philippe…
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…