News
February 16, 2026
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.
Guest Student Puzzle editor Stanislav Volkov sets …
Dr. Richard Arnold “Rich” Johnson, age 88 of Madison, USA, died on February 2, 2026. He lived a rich life of service and countless contributions to the field and profession of statistics.
Rich was born on July 10, 1937, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He obtained three degrees from the University…
The Department of Statistics at Columbia University mourns the passing of Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo, who passed away on October 25, 2025, at the age of 74. Professor Lo was a distinguished statistician, teacher, and collaborator whose work transformed both theoretical and applied statistics. His research in asymptotic theory, survival analysis,…
Meet the people who are standing in the 2026 IMS Council elections.
Xihong Lin is the candidate for President-Elect, and we have 10 candidates for the five places on IMS Council: Shankar Bhamidi, Jelena Bradic, Susanne Ditlevsen, Pablo Groisman, Jialiang Li, Runze Li, Lester Mackey, Debashis Paul, Nancy Ruonan Zhang…
February 15, 2026
The PDF version of the March 2026 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/.
Contents include:
First IMS International New Researchers Conference
Members’ news: Hamza Ali
Loève Prize
Registration for IMS 2026 meeting
International Prize in Statistics: nominate …