Anirban DasGupta, Purdue University, writes: Thriyambakam Krishnan, former Dean of Academic Studies and Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, passed away in Chennai, India on July 4; he was 81. Jointly with G.J. McLachlan he authored the masterly and popular Wiley text on the EM algorithm and its applications. Dr.…

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Shane Henderson (Cornell University) is Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Systems, an IMS-affiliated journal. He writes: After more than six years being published through a cooperative agreement between the IMS and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Applied Probability Society (APS), Stochastic Systems has become an INFORMS journal.…

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Alison Etheridge gave this Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting in Vilnius in July 2018.   So, how was I going to write a Presidential address? The best way to start seemed to be to see what my predecessors had said, and so I took to the internet. There…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: http://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_28_5/aap_28_5.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/ For more information on journals published or supported…

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Call for Nominations: IMS Special Lectures The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The following lectures are available for nomination in 2018. Information on all lectures can be found here: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/ 2020 Blackwell Lecturer 2021 Medallion Lecturers Deadline is Oct 1. To…

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