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September 1, 2026
We are pleased to announce a new award and lecture in memory of Thomas G. Kurtz. The winner of the biennial award will deliver the Tom Kurtz invited plenary lecture at the co-sponsored Stochastic Networks conference, which Kurtz co-founded to bring together mathematicians and applied researchers. Honoring this vision, the…
The Wendell H. Fleming Probability PhD Thesis Award is given for an outstanding dissertation in any area of probability, including foundational mathematical work and applications, including interdisciplinary applications of probability in other fields. This prize has been established to encourage creative and impactful research and high-quality exposition by junior members…
IMS Fund Supporting International Meetings in Probability, Statistics and Allied Areas (SIMPSAA)
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is committed to supporting the probability, statistics, and data science communities worldwide. This initiative seeks to establish an IMS fund that provides funding support for workshops, meetings, and schools in these subjects in…
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, contributes a short meditation on how we became data points:
Over the years I have written in these pages about teaching, learning, and the curious ways in which mathematics and statistics evolve inside universities. I would like to return to that theme, because something rather…
Our guest column is a call to action in this age of LLMs, from Po-Ling Loh, Professor at the University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory. She explores the urgent threat that AI poses to mathematical statistics… and proposes a solution that could lead us from competition to collaboration.
AI has…