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March 30, 2024
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales. Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…

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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend Johannes Ledolter who was a Professor of Statistics and Business at the University of Iowa and Emeritus Professor at the University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. Johannes passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa…

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It’s the time of year when we introduce the people who are standing in the 2024 IMS Council elections. This year, along with Kavita Ramanan, the candidate for President-Elect, we have 10 candidates—Ivan Corwin, Philip A. Ernst, Martin Hairer, Tai Melcher, Axel Munk, Per Mykland, Igor Prünster, Jane-Ling

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March 13, 2024
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is pleased to announce Runze Li as the 2024 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Professor Li is the Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. The award is made in recognition of his exceptional contributions to IMS, especially…

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March 8, 2024
A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_52_1/aos_52_1.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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