David Blackwell, a pioneering African American mathematician and statistician, made significant contributions to statistical decision theory and game theory, notably co-authoring Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions. He had an impactful career as a professor, researcher, and advocate for statistical methods, becoming the first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Registration Open for ICES VII in Glasgow, Scotland
UK National Statistician Sir Ian Diamond will open the conference with a keynote. Danny Pfeffermann, an academic with a career at the forefront of developing methods for official statistics, will give the second keynote, and Katherine Jenny Thompson, methodology director in the US Census Bureau Economic Statistical Methods Division, will give the final keynote.
ICES VII to Take Place in Scotland Next June
The program committee invites you to submit a proposal for an invited paper session from March 1 – May 15.