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IMS Fellow Hélène Menexia Massam, Professor of Statistics at York University, Toronto, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 71.
Née Kampouris, Hélène was born January 10, 1949 and grew up in Marseille, France. Soon after her admission to the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud at the age…
Willem Rutger van Zwet, emeritus professor at the Mathematical Institute Leiden, passed away in the morning of July 2, 2020 at the age of 86 years.
Willem (“Bill”) van Zwet was born in 1934 in Leiden, and attended the gymnasium (high school with classics) in The Hague. During his subsequent…
To appear in Annals of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability or Annals of Applied Statistics
Such memorial issues are reserved for researchers whose work had a particularly high scientific impact and must be approved by the IMS Memorials Committee and the editor(s) of the appropriate IMS Journal…
We are pleased to announce the 2020 election results, and introduce the newly elected members of IMS Council. The next President-Elect is Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy, and the five new members of Council are: Tony Cai, Richard Davis, Alice Guionnet, Martin Wainwright and Fang Yao. All of them will serve a…
Adel Javanmard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations, at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining USC in 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Science of Information, working at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. …