Don Pierce had a habit of continuing email threads with his collaborators years after a previous message without missing a beat in the conversation. Such instant-restart conversations reflected a profound intellectual concentration, a dogged pursuit of deeper understanding, and the special importance he placed on his collaborative relationships. These conversations…

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These are some of this year’s IMS Travel Award recipients who used their awards to fund travel to the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto (pictured with Program Secretary Annie Qu, on the right). If you are a graduate student or a new researcher, you can apply for a travel…

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Columnist Clara Grazian continues our advice column for early-career researchers: Question: When is the right time, as an academic, to have a baby? Clara says: This question was posed to me during a panel session organised for International Women in Mathematics Day 2023 (12th May). The panellist who spoke before…

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A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_37_2/bjps_37_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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A new issue of Bernoulli has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_29_4/bej_29_4.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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