Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta poses another two problems, and says, “Our statistics problem this time is on universally consistent estimation of the regression coefficients for not necessarily Gaussian errors, and the probability problem is on probabilistic graph theory. The statistics problem is a practically important problem that will make …

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Columnist Clara Grazian introduces our new advice column for early-career researchers: Question 1: I am interested in pursuing an internship in a company, but my advisor thinks that this will slow down my dissertation progress. How should I proceed? Clara responds: Ha, this is a great question! I believe there…

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Andrej Srakar, University of Ljubljana, is the coordinator and Co-Editor of the YoungStatS project. He writes about random matrices in probability and mathematical physics: We start our YoungStatS short contributions for the IMS Bulletin with a topic from probability theory, namely random matrix theory (RMT). In today’s mathematics,…

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Send us your Invitation to Research In the September 2022 IMS Bulletin, we introduced an “Invitation to Research” section, kicked off by Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Senior Statistician at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, USA. Alex invited members to collaborate on Quantitative Perturbation Theory…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_33_4/aap_33_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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