The Statistics community lost a luminary with the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee on June 18, 2024, at the age of 89. He leaves behind his son and daughter and two grandchildren, as well as numerous students, friends and admirers. A doyen among Indian statisticians, Professor Chatterjee was…

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Dong-Yun Kim and Jessica Kohlschmidt write: The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) offers awards and scholarships to selected members each year: https://cwstat.org/awards/. Since 2016, CWS has been helping early-career professionals and students travel to participate in the annual JSM meetings. This year, we have a…

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Annie Qu is Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms…

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Layla Parast writes: A few years ago, my dad had a heart attack. (He continues to claim it was just a “discomfort.”) When he was in the emergency room, his doctor told him he needed heart surgery right away. My dad had never had a major surgery and had no…

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The Bocconi Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Probability is hosted by the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies ( https://lakecomoschool.org/ ) at Villa del Grumello, on the shores of the Lake of Como, usually in July. The School continues the tradition of the Summer Schools in Statistics and Probability…

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