News
August 30, 2017
Joseph M. Hilbe, born in Los Angeles, California (December 30, 1944), passed away at his home on March 12, 2017. He was an American statistician and philosopher, the founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA), Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii, Solar System Ambassador with NASA’s Jet…
Calling student members: was the latest problem in the Student Puzzle Corner too puzzling? There’s still time to send your solutions to this problem on deconvolution. The deadline is September 4.
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The 2017 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Hugo Duminil-Copin of IHES Paris and University of Geneva. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley to be held in November 2017.
Hugo Duminil-Copin received his Ph.D.…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng (who is also the new President-Elect) writes about two of the IMS special invited lectures he was inspired by at the Joint Statistical Meetings:
JSM has been a magnet for me since 1989—only once I had to depart on Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. But…
The September 2017 issue of the IMS Bulletin is now online at http://www.imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/bulletin/Bulletin46_6.pdf
Contents include:
JSM round-up and photos
Members’ News: ASA Fellows; ICM Plenary speakers; David Allison; Mike Cohen; David Cox
COPSS Awards: 2017 winners, 2018 nominations
Anirban’s Angle: The state of the world, in a few lines
Obituary:…