Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their decades of work building and maintaining the R Project (https://www.r-project.org/). The 2026 laureates are: Brian Ripley, University of Oxford, UK; Martin Maechler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Kurt Hornik, Vienna University of…

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On April 28, 2026, our teacher, mentor, colleague and friend Murad S. Taqqu passed away at the age of 84. Murad was one of the most influential probabilists and statisticians of his time who almost single-handedly developed the theory of self-similar stochastic processes, laid the groundwork for a systematic analysis…

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Wendell Helms Fleming, a mathematician who made seminal contributions in analysis and probability, passed away on February 18, 2023 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. He was born March 7, 1928, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and spent most of his childhood years in southern Indiana. Although starting at Purdue University as an…

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The PDF version of the August 2026 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/. Contents include: US National Academy of Sciences member James Robins IMS Council election results Members’ news: Brian Ripley and Luke Tierney among Rousseeuw Prize …

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Michael Baron (American University) and Yaakov Malinovsky (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), the Co-Chairs of IWSM-2026, report: The 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM-2026: https://www.american.edu/cas/iwsm2026/) was held on June 1–4, 2026, at American University in Washington, DC, USA. Since its inception in 2007, IWSM has served as a…

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