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August 31, 2023
Past-President Peter Bühlmann is pleased to introduce some new Friends:
Statistics and Data Science are of crucial importance in very many areas of society, with people working in academia, industry or government. To strengthen scientific exchange across fields, IMS has created a new membership category named Industry Friends of IMS …
Each year at the Annual Meeting the presidency of the IMS hands over. This year’s IMS President is Michael Kosorok, who took over from Peter Bühlmann. Tony Cai is the new President-Elect. Chris Burdzy has left the Executive, having finished his presidential term. Also leaving the committee this…
Did you know that IMS has a growing collection of plenary speaker videos on our YouTube channel? You can watch them at
https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat
Four plenary talks from the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science) are the latest to be added.
These are “Scaling up Bayesian Modeling and…
Access the YoungStatS website at: https://youngstats.github.io/
You can read the latest YoungStatS blog post, on Bayesian nonparametrics, here.
Its author, IMS member Dr. Beatrice Franzolini (Bocconi University, Italy) is currently chair-elect of the junior ISBA (j-ISBA, International Society for Bayesian Analysis) section.
Look out for another YoungStatS article in an…
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Richard Floyd Gundy passed away peacefully on February 20th, 2023. He was 89 years old.
Dick graduated from Illinois College. He went on to earn a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Indiana University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Fascinated with the statistics…