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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Arthur Pentland Dempster, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Statistics at Harvard University and a founding member of its Department of Statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Over nearly seven decades of scholarship, Professor Dempster shaped the foundations of statistical inference through a series of path-breaking research…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_36_3/aap_36_3.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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