Professor Mark Girolami has been elected to the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In this role he will provide academic leadership for the Centre for Digital Built Britain across the University and more broadly throughout the national and…

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David J. Hand, Imperial College London, is one of our Contributing Editors. He writes about the role statistics can play in detecting and combating fraud: I do not need to remind the readers of the IMS Bulletin that the discipline of statistics is ubiquitous, being applied in all walks of…

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The 28th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS 2020, will be held during the period December 15-17, 2020 at the Center for Advanced Research for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, (MAHE) Manipal, Karnataka, India. The theme of workshop shall focus on • Matrix Analysis, •…

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On March 29, 2019, Harry Kesten lost a decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He died in Ithaca, aged 87. Harry was born in Duisburg, Germany, on November 19, 1931. His parents escaped from the Nazis in 1933 and moved to Amsterdam. After undergraduate studies in Amsterdam, he worked as a…

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Call for expressions of interest in hosting the Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in 2024 Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li Meng meng@stat.harvard.edu and Susan Murphy samurphy@fas.harvard.edu) and cc’ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, cklu@ma.tum.de). The…

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