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September 1, 2026
Radu Craiu writes:
Time is a strange instrument capable of doing many things to us, but if I had to choose its material impersonation, I would probably choose the accordion for a number of reasons. We all learned at some point that time can make us sing with joy or…
Fred L. Bookstein, internationally renowned statistical scientist, morphometrician, and one of the most original quantitative thinkers of his generation, passed away on 20 June 2026. His death marks the loss of a scholar whose work reshaped the study of biological form and influenced disciplines ranging from anthropology and evolutionary biology…
The probability community lost one of its foremost figures with the passing of Alexandr Alekseevich Borovkov on May 14, 2026. Over a scientific career spanning more than seven decades, Borovkov was one of the architects of modern asymptotic probability theory. His work transformed the study of random walks, large deviations,…
Agnes Herzberg died in Kingston, Ontario on June 2, 2026, at the age of 87. She made important and wide-ranging contributions as a researcher, a promoter of statistics in science and public policy, and in professional service. In 1991–92 she served as the Statistical Society of Canada’s first female president.…
On June 7, 2026, IMS Fellow Ching-Shui Cheng passed away. Following his PhD under Jack Kiefer, Cheng joined the Berkeley faculty in 1977 until his early retirement in 2013, when he moved to the Institute of Statistical Science (ISS) at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, serving two terms as Director.
Cheng…