News
April 2, 2013
Former IMS Bulletin Editor, and current Co-editor of JASA, Xuming He, writes:
In order to disseminate our research results, we are expected to publish. We also publish to establish a track record as scholars. Publications are needed for annual evaluations as well as tenure and promotion for each individual. Publications…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
“Upstairs on the Square” is reputed in some circles to be the restaurant for dining and wining around Harvard Square. The probability therefore was not surprisingly small to find Ben Affleck and two statisticians there sitting only a few tables apart. It was September 15,…
Professor Damaraju Raghavarao, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Statistics in Fox School of Business, Temple University, died suddenly from cardiac arrest brought on by flu on February 6, 2013.
Raghavarao was born on January 5, 1938, the youngest of four children. His future career was foreshadowed at an early…
Robert McCallum Blumenthal passed away on November 8, 2012 at the age of 81, after a long illness. Bob, as he was known to one and all, was a mathematician whose main interest was probability theory, especially continuous parameter Markov processes on a topological state space. He received his PhD…
Dayanand N. Naik, who was a Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, passed away on Friday, October 26, 2012, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer. He is survived by his wife, Sujatha, and his two sons, Naveen, 16, and Rishi, 10,…