Make a donation to this award fund   Lawrence D. Brown (1940-2018), Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, had a distinguished academic career with groundbreaking contributions to a range of fields in theoretical and applied statistics. Moreover, he was an enthusiastic and…

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The January/February 2019 issue is online:https://imstat.org/latest-issue Contents include: US National Academy of Medicine elects Xihong LinMembers’ news: Raphael Gottardo; Song Xi Chen, Edward L. Ionides, Sharon-Lise NormandCOPSS nominationsJournal news: new editors for Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Statistics, Annals of Applied ProbabilityAnirban’s Angle: US Elections, 2016,…

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Some of the IMS journals have new editors. Starting January 1, 2019, the Annals of Applied Probability will now have two Co-editors (like the Annals of Statistics has had). Therefore, Editor Bálint Tóth is handing over to Francois Delarue and Peter Friz. Francois is Professor in the mathematics department at…

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We introduce the Le Cam lecturer, Ruth Williams, and the Neyman lecturer, Peter Bühlmann, along with the rest of this year’s Medallion Lecturers: Anthony Davison, Anna De Masi, Svante Janson and Sonia Petrone. Anthony’s lecture will be at JSM in Vancouver (July 28–August 2), Anna’s at the Stochastic Processes and…

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Lawrence David Brown, one of the leading statisticians of our time, passed away peacefully on February 21, 2018, at the age of 77, after a long battle with cancer. We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Larry, a teacher, a mentor, a colleague, and a friend. Larry preserved…

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