We are excited to announce this year's Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award winners! They are: **UTC+0 to UTC+13** Giovanni Rebaudo Giovanni Rebaudo Tommaso Rigon Tommaso Rigon Francesca Romana Crucinio **UTC-12 to UTC-1** Fan Bu Fan Bu Raaz Dwivedi Raaz Dwivedi Qian Qin

Tweedie IMS New Researcher Award Deadline for Nominations: December 1 The 2025 Tweedie IMS New Researcher Invited Lecture will be delivered at the 2025 IMS New Researchers Conference immediately before JSM in Nashville. imstat.org/ims-awards/twe…

More than 40% of Harvard graduates end up working in consulting or finance. What a waste of young talent for society. We do not talk nearly enough about this and the broader implications.

"...mathematics, physics, basic computer science, applied mathematics. Those are things that would be necessary to understand and develop the next generation of AI system" Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 UCD Maths and Stats UCD Research

Deadline next week!

The proposed initial officers are Adrian Raftery Nial Friel Monica Alexander @EJWagenmakers Robin Ryder Here's the link to the petition again: docs.google.com/document/d/1a6…

A bag full of goodies

If you’re a graduate student in stats or ML you could a lot worse than becoming an IMS member (free to students, AFAIK).

Exciting development!

Come to Canada and apply for your “green card” in 18 months, citizenship 5 years later and then walk into US like you own the place.

The European football community mourns the loss of Helmuth Duckadam at the age of 65. The legendary goalkeeper won the European Cup with Steaua Bucharest in 1986, saving all four penalties in the shoot-out. Rest in peace, Helmuth.

One #postdoc position is still available at the National University of Singapore NUS to work on sampling, high-dimensional data-assimilation, and diffusion/flow models. Applications are open until the end of January. Details: alexxthiery.github.io/jobs/2024_diff…

Time and wine. What more does one need? :)

Are you a Canadian citizen or PR? 3rd or 4th year in undergrad? Available June 2-13 for a fully funded summer school in statistics? Learn more and apply here: statistics.utoronto.ca/UTSSRP Yours truly will be teaching you some online learning theory.

Love this quote from Sir Michael Atiyah: "Algebra is the offer made by the devil to a mathematician. The devil says, 'I will give you this powerful machine...all you need to do is give up your soul: give up geometry...' The danger to our soul is there... when you pass into

Go Canada!

Happy to announce a new paper with Roberto Casarin and Qing Wang (from Ca’Foscari Venice) on Dynamic Tensor Regression (to appear in a special issue of JMVA) can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Philosopher Jason Stanley is moving from Yale to Toronto. He says, “the decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” He wants to “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship.”

I hadn't realized this but Romania's next president was 1st in the world in the International Maths Olympiad 2 years in a row with maximum score

Are you curious about what makes some Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers run fast? Then perhaps you will consider joining us in Toronto, Sept 25-27 for the "Fast and Curious 2: MCMC in action" conference. Registration information is available at: raducraiu.com/the-fast-and-c…