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December 19, 2012
Last year the Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Sastry Pantula, proposed changing the division’s name to the Division of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. This led to an intense discussion in the community. IMS also collected opinions of members which…
Contributing Editor Peter Bickel writes:
David Blackwell died on July 8, 2010. Since that time there have been a number of celebrations of his life and accomplishments: memorial sessions in Berkeley in October 2010, at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop in San Diego in March 2011, at a conference…
Nominations are invited for the 2013 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health.
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture was initiated in 1993 in memory of Myrto Lefkopoulou, a former beloved faculty member and student in the Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died of cancer in…
W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, PhD, Fellow of the IMS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester, died peacefully on October 14, 2012, at age 82. In the course of his long and highly distinguished career, Jack made deep…
Our new Contributing Editor, Xiao-Li Meng, used to be Chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, and has recently been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. In this, his first XL-Files column, he writes:
When Editors Dimitris Politis and Tati Howell invited me to…