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November 18, 2014
Erwin Bolthausen became IMS President in July (he is pictured below, center, with Past-President Bin Yu, left, and President-Elect Richard Davis, right). Erwin shares his thoughts on the future of the institute:
The IMS is extremely successful as a scientific society, mainly as a scientific publisher, and also with its…
Featuring news about Trevor Hastie, David Anderson, Kathryn Chaloner; Raymond J. Carroll, Frank E. Harrell Jr., Arnab Maity, Christopher S. McMahan, Sastry G. Pantula, Madan L. Puri, and Joshua M. Tebbs
Sastry Pantula receives ASA Founders’ Award
The American Statistical Association (ASA) presented Sastry G. Pantula, Oregon State University, with its prestigious Founders Award, along with James Cochran and Christine Franklin, at the JSM in Boston in August 2014. The honor, presented annually to ASA members who have rendered distinguished and…
Robert Adler presents the third in his series of four articles on TOPOS, Topology, Probability and Statistics:
This month, I want to direct most of my words to my fellow probabilists, and, ultimately, to issue them a challenge. Accepting the challenge will, I am certain, benefit all of the three…
November 17, 2014
Peter Bickel writes:
Of the nine National Medals of Science awarded by President Obama this year, three were in what I view, ecumenically, as the mathematical, information and data sciences. The medals are awarded to David Blackwell, posthumously, to Alexandre Chorin and to Thomas Kailath. Of these, David Blackwell’s is…