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October 17, 2024
The IMS Executive Committee members are pictured below. Inset left, Executive Secretary Peter Hoff; inset middle, Program Secretary Annie Qu; inset right, Treasurer Jiashun Jin. Standing in the main picture (which was taken at the 2024 World Congress), left–right: Past President Michael Kosorok, President Tony Cai…
Dipak Dey writes:
The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut hosted the 30th Distinguished Statistician Colloquium, sponsored by ASA, Pfizer and UConn. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012, and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series has featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox,…
Layla Parast writes:
Fall is the time for apples, pumpkin spice, crunching leaves, and—for me—freshmen. Some people strongly dislike teaching freshmen, but I love it. I feel like a summer camp counselor again, except that this time I don’t have to worry about kids being pushed in pools or whacked…
Clara Grazian, Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, continues our advice column for (anonymous) early-career researchers.
Question: I am close to finishing my PhD in Statistics in a country that is part of Europe, although I don’t have a …
Herold Dehling, the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the World Congress, writes:
The Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held from 12 to 16 August, 2024, on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability,…