Guest columnist Dominique Picard considers the statistical legacy of wavelets. Once upon a time (around the nineties), wavelet analysis emerged as a major tool in various disciplines, including several branches of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. The primary intent at this time was to produce and exploit the properties…

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Steven Ferris Arnold, age 70, of State College, PA, died December 6, 2014, at his residence. Steve was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Penn State University. Steve was a 1966 graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., summa cum laude, and earned a MS (1967) and PhD in Statistics from…

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Eugene Dynkin, the A.R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Cornell University, died November 14, 2014, in Ithaca, NY. He was 90. He is survived by his wife, Irene; a daughter, Olga Barel; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Evgenii Borisovich Dynkin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1924.…

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Henry Earl Teicher, husband, father, friend and colleague, passed away on November 12, 2014 at the age of 92. Henry Teicher was born July 9, 1922, in Jersey City, NJ. Henry received his PhD in statistics from Columbia University in 1950, and served in professorial positions at Purdue until 1967.…

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The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is March 5, 2015. The names and …

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