Marta Sanz-Solé is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the Institute of Catalan Studies and a Fellow of the IMS. Her research interests are in the field of stochastic analysis, specially Malliavin calculus and stochastic partial differential equations. She is, and has …

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IMS President 2016–17 Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington, writes: History: Continuity and Discontinuity In preparing to write this article for the Bulletin, I took the opportunity to read several of the introductory articles written by previous IMS Presidents over the past 10 years. These pieces convey a wonderful sense…

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David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford, UK, profiles Steve Evans, one of the five IMS Fellows elected in 2016 to the US National Academy of Sciences [profiles of the other four have appeared in previous issues]. In May 2016, Steven Neil Evans was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences,…

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Richard Davis delivered his IMS Presidential Address at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, at the Fields Institute in Toronto on July 11, 2016. The video of this talk, which includes slides and three embedded videos can be accessed from http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/video-archive or http://www.stat.columbia.edu/​~rdavis/PresidentAddress2016.ogv (the address starts at the 14:45…

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Ingram Olkin (Photo by Ed Souza) Ingram Olkin, professor emeritus of statistics and education at Stanford University, died at home in Palo Alto on April 28 at the age of 91. Ingram Olkin was an eminent scholar, teacher and stalwart contributor to many civil rights causes. He is best known…

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