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February 16, 2018
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, has been awarded the 2017 Infosys Science Foundation prize and the 2017 TWAS prize in engineering sciences for the impact of her work in the field of computer and engineering sciences.
The Infosys award is given annually to recognize the best…
We introduce the first two in a series of IMS special lecture previews for 2018. Richard Samworth and Thomas Mikosch are two of this year’s Medallion Lecturers. Both of them will be giving their Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018. The program will be…
Observational Studies, an IMS-affiliated journal, has an updated website. Check it out at https://obs.pennpress.org/home/. Observational Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts on all aspects of observational studies. The journal is open access and has no publication charges. Papers are posted to the website rapidly when accepted.…
Yoram Gat’s third column considers whether democracy would be better served by sortition:
For about 2,500 years, statistical sampling was closely linked with democracy. “Selection by lot is natural to democracy, as that by choice [i.e., elections] is to aristocracy,” asserted Aristotle in the 4th century BC, following his own…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
My sabbatical orientation at Lugano (see the last XL-Files) boosted my over-confidence into double digits. Anyone who asked about my sabbatical plan would get an ambitious answer: that I would complete 14 articles during my sabbatical year. The year is now (at the time of writing)…