Arthur Pentland Dempster, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Statistics at Harvard University and a founding member of its Department of Statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Over nearly seven decades of scholarship, Professor Dempster shaped the foundations of statistical inference through a series of path-breaking research…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_36_3/aap_36_3.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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2026 IMS Election The results are in! IMS President-elect Xihong Lin IMS Council Members for a 3 year term Shankar Bhamidi Jelena Bradic Susanne Ditlevsen Runze Li Lester Mackey You can view the elected officials’ profiles here.…

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A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_62_2/aihp_62_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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Congratulations to the 2026 Class of IMS Fellows! The designation of IMS Fellow has been a significant honor for 90 years. Each Fellow has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. You can see photos of the new Fellows…

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