Kathryn Chaloner accepting her COPSS Elizabeth Scott Award at last year’s JSM. Photo: Eric Sampson/ASA Kathryn Chaloner, 60, passed away on October 19, 2014. She was a fellow of the ASA and the AAAS, and an elected member of the ISI. From 2002 to October 2014, Kathryn was Professor and…

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Jiashun Jin is Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. He was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, after which he joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remains a faculty…

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JSM 2015 will take place in Seattle, Washington, from August 8–13, 2015. IMS Invited Program Chairs Igor Pruenster (University of Torino, Italy) and Antonio Lijoi (University of Pavia, Italy) have been hard at work organizing 30 sessions. Here’s an overview. IMS Special Invited Lectures (9) The Wald Lectures by Susan…

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Photo from http://www.jagdishrustagi.com/ Jagdish Sharan Rustagi, an eminent statistician and a fellow of IMS, passed away on September 21, 2014, in Sunnyvale, California. He was born on August 13, 1923, in the village of Sikri located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in (then) British India. He obtained his BA…

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IMS President Bin Yu writes: As I am finishing my term as the IMS President and transitioning into the role of Past-President, I have been reflecting on the roles of IMS in an effort to attract new members. As stated on the IMS website, “The purpose of the institute is …

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