Pablo Ferrari is Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, in Argentina, and Emeritus Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is Licenciado en Matemática at the same university, and Doutor em Estatística at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; he joined their Department of…

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Chunming Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. Her research interests encompass statistical methods in computational neuroscience, biostatistics, and financial econometrics, along with the analysis of…

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Remco van der Hofstad is professor in probability at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Remco was scientific director of Eurandom from 2011–2019. He received the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2007. He is a laureate of prestigious VIDI 2003 and VICI 2008 grants, and is a PI in the 10-year Gravitation…

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Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. His decision is final. Anirban DasGupta says, “We are continuing with …

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Daniela Witten writes: I recently read a blog post by a (non-statistical) science professor whose opinions I respect and value. Paraphrasing a bit, the thesis was this: If you are a professor, then you should not be surprised that the majority of your trainees (PhD students and postdocs) are less…

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