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May 16, 2023
Krishna B. Athreya, who was an IMS Fellow, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at Iowa State University, died at his home in Ames, Iowa, on March 24, 2023. Rick Durrett reflects on Professor Athreya’s mathematical legacy.
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Damodar Nagesh Shanbhag passed away at his residence in Sheffield, UK, on December 13, 2022. He was 85 years old.
Dr. Shanbhag was born in 1937, in the state of Karnataka, India to Nagesh G. and Rama Shanbhag. He earned his Master’s degree in Statistics from Karnataka University securing a…
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion awards and lectures. You are invited to nominate:
the 2025 & 2026 Wald Award & Lectures
the 2025 Neyman Award & Lecture
the 2025 Rietz Award & Lecture
the 2025 Wahba Award & Lecture
the 2026 …
The ACM–IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS) is a new joint journal of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IMS, publishing high-impact research from all areas of data science, across foundations, applications and systems. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer…
Deadline: July 1, 2023
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta poses another two problems, and says, “Once again, we propose one problem on statistics and one on probability. I think you will find both problems to be new to you and interesting. If you are not able to answer either problem…