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July 14, 2017
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

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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. — After a relaxed rendezvous with effulgent nothingness, we should now seriously get back to the problem corner. It is…

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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…

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June 30, 2017
The results are in for the 2017 IMS Council elections. The next President-Elect is Xiao-Li Meng, and the six new members of Council are: Peter Hoff, Greg Lawler, Antonietta Mira, Axel Munk and Byeong Park (all of whom will serve a three-year term), and Mathias Drton (who will serve a…

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A new issue of THE ANNALS of STATISTICS has been published.You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_45_4.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/For more information on journals published or supported by the…

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