Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The names of student members who submit correct solutions to either or both of these puzzles, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. …

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Pragya Sur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, and the President of the IMS New Researchers Group. She welcomes you to join in its activities, including the New Researchers Conference, held this year at the University of Toronto immediately before the Joint Statistical Meetings.…

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Towards an open community in statistics, probability and econometrics: Introduction to interviews with YoungStatS project presenters. Andrej Srakar, PhD, is coordinator and Co-Editor of the YoungStatS project. He works as a Scientific Associate at the Institute for Economic Research in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is an Assistant Professor at the School…

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The IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award is open: the application deadline is May 1, 2023. Eligible applicants compete to be one of three speakers at an invited session as part of the IMS Annual Meeting (which will be the Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics,…

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Queensley C. Chukwudum (University of Uyo, Nigeria) and Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester, UK, and Howard University, Washington DC, USA) would like your assistance, to support African research that benefits Africa. They write:   It is a sad fact that Africa has been, and continues to be, affected by exploitation…

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