The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The following lectures are available for nomination in 2016. • 2018 Wald Lecturer • 2018 Neyman Lecturer • 2018 Rietz Lecturer​ • 2019 Medallion Lecturers The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2016. To nominate…

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Ingram Olkin (Photo by Ed Souza) Ingram Olkin, professor emeritus of statistics and education at Stanford University, died at home in Palo Alto on April 28 at the age of 91. Ingram Olkin was an eminent scholar, teacher and stalwart contributor to many civil rights causes. He is best known…

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Professor Paul A. Herzberg, a long-time faculty member in the Psychology Department at York University in Toronto, died on December 2, 2015 at age 79. Paul joined York University in 1966 and retired from the Department of Psychology in 2002. He was named a senior scholar at the University. Paul’s…

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Frank den Hollander is professor of mathematics at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His research focuses on probability theory, ergodic theory, statistical physics, population dynamics and complex networks. Frank has supervised 13 PhD students and 33 postdocs, has published 150 papers, and is the author of three monographs. He has…

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Pierre Del Moral is Research Director at INRIA in France since 2007. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); Polytechnique School in Palaiseau, Paris; Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne of the University of Nice and Sophia-Antipolis; CNRS research fellow at University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse;…

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