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The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the fourth Ethel Newbold Prize. The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years, next time in spring 2021. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself…

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Obituary articles can be contributed (or proposed) by any IMS member and may concern any deceased IMS member. These are handled and edited by the Editor of the IMS Bulletin.   For examples, see: https://imstat.org/?s=obituary  …

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Tom Liggett passed away May 12, 2020 in Los Angeles. Tom was the editor of the Annals of Probability from 1985–87, gave the Wald Lectures in 1996, and was elected to the National Academy in 2008. He is best known for his two books on interacting particle systems. Rick Durrett…

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Nicolas Curien is Professor, since 2014, in the Mathematics Institute at Université Paris-Saclay, France. He specializes in probability theory and, more precisely, in random two-dimensional geometry. He received his PhD at Orsay (now Paris-Saclay) in 2011 and then spent two years at Sorbonne University as a CNRS researcher. His main…

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The IMS would like to provide online access to all volumes of the IMS Bulletin. Currently, all issues since the beginning of 2002 are online, at https://imstat.org/ims-bulletin-archive/. However, prior to that we only have hard copies, which must be scanned. Since commercial scanning involves separating the pages, thus destroying…

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