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July 14, 2017
Tapas K. Chandra, professor of statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, has passed away in Calcutta; he was 64. Professor Chandra is known for his work on asymptotic stochastic expansions of test statistics under Pitman and fixed alternatives and for strong laws for dependent sequences. Jointly with Sreela Gangopadhyay,…
Subhashis Ghoshal is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. His research interests span many areas including Bayesian statistics, asymptotics, nonparametrics and high dimensional models, with diverse applications. In particular, his pioneering work on concentration of posterior distributions led to theoretical understanding of nonparametric Bayesian procedures. He …
Judith Rousseau is currently Professor at University Paris Dauphine. Her research interests range from theoretical aspects of Bayesian procedures, both parametric and nonparametric, to more methodological developments. From a theoretical perspective she is interested in the interface between Bayesian and frequentist approaches, looking at frequentist properties of Bayesian methods. From …
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is September 4, 2017.
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After a relaxed rendezvous with effulgent nothingness, we should now seriously get back to the problem corner. It is…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
A good number of people have asked me about what have been the best and the worst parts of being a dean. Whereas the worst part should only be shared over two glasses of Long Island iced tea (my first and still the most memorable…