News
July 15, 2011
Aurore Delaigle will become the IMS’s Executive Secretary from August 2, 2011 to July 9, 2014, following Marten Wegkamp’s three-year term.
Aurore is a Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, with research interests in nonparametric estimation of curves, measurement errors, deconvolution…
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 IMS elections. The next President-Elect is Hans R. Künsch. The five new Council members, for a three-year term, are: Sandrine Dudoit, Steve Evans, Sonia Petrone, Christian P. Robert, and Qiwei Yao.
866 people (21% of members) participated in the elections.…
Is there actually any use for a dehydrated elephant?
Rick Durrett thinks that just because we can solve a
problem, it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re asking, or answering, the right question…
Bani K. Mallick has been promoted to distinguished professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University. Mallick is a pioneer researcher in the field of Bayesian nonparametric regression and classification and the author of Bayesian Methods of Nonlinear Classification and Regression. He does major collaborative research with scientists…
Dipak K. Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the Department of Statistics, has stepped down as head of the department and has joined the administration of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn as associate dean (Physical Sciences). In addition to his duties overseeing the Physics, Chemistry,…