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December 15, 2024
The New Researchers Group (NRG) exists under the auspices of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS). It was founded following the 2014 New Researchers Conference, hosted by Harvard University. Many of the attendees at the conference were eager to continue the exciting conversations they had there and to foster collaborations…
Andrej Srakar, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia, is coordinator of the YoungStatS project, part of the Young Statisticians Europe initiative. He writes:
The Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) initiative was founded in Paris in 2018, at a three-day international workshop that was organized by three young French scholars (https://www.sfds.asso.fr/en/events/629-european_workshop/…
William (Bill) Strawderman, a brilliant mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on October 1, 2024.
Born on April 25, 1941, Bill received a BS in Engineering Mathematics from University of Rhode Island in 1963, an MS in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1965, and an MS…
As you may recall from the previous issue, Xiao-Li Meng promised to reveal how a statistician like him found a path to partnering with leaders in the wine industry. All will be revealed in this and the following two installments of the XL-Files. Here, we are reprinting—with permission and…
David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the selection committee for the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize, awarded as previously announced to Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller and Daniel Yekutieli (with posthumous acknowledgment to Yosef Hochberg). David gave the following speech at the award presentation.
Introduction
I was honoured to be…