Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, passed away at home, surrounded by his family, on the morning of May 5. Bruce was holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State University, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1979 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at…

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Mini-courses will be given by Persi Diaconis, Yuval Peres and Laurent Saloff-Coste. In addition, there will be several lectures given by Pietro Caputo, Elchanan Mossel and Perla Sousi. The workshop is geared toward graduate students, but post-docs and talented, advanced undergraduates should also find it worthwhile. There is a certain…

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Terry Speed is in love… with ideas. He recalls the influence of Wiener and Rissanen on his work with Bin Yu, just inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

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For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences. The Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is pleased to request nominations for the Fourteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The…

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Contributing Editor David Hand explains that while statistics as a field is not impossible, it is often misunderstood: The importance of public understanding of science, and of outreach activities more generally, is now widely accepted. Much research funding comes from public sources, so there’s an obligation to ensure that the…

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