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Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among those chosen this year were two IMS Fellows, Andrew Gelman (Columbia University) and Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University). [Xiao-Li describes Andy…
Princeton University Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Professor Rene Carmona and University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Michael Ludkovski, along with Professor Ronnie Sircar (ORFE) and Dr. Glen Swindle (Scoville Risk Partner), have been awarded $3.5 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects…
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…
Terry Speed had the tough task of outlining a very long—and extraordinarily productive—life, to mark C.R. Rao’s 100th birthday:
Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (hereafter CRR) was born on September 10, 1920 in Hadagali, Karnataka State, India. He received an M.A. in mathematics in 1940 from Andhra University and an M.A.…
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and Department of Biostatistics request nominations for the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. Eligible individuals are women who:
have completed their terminal degree
have made extraordinary contributions and have an…