Markov Lecturer 2020

The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS announced that Sem Borst is the 2020 Markov Lecturer. In 2005, the Applied Probability Society initiated the annual Markov Lecture, to be delivered in the fall of each year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The intent is to both honour the associated speaker and to…

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In memoriam Willem van Zwet

On July 2, 2020 the initiator and first scientific director of Eurandom, Willem van Zwet, passed away, 86 years old. As a professor in mathematical statistics with a wide interest in probability and mathematics in general, he saw the possibilities of nondeterministic modelling for other sciences and societal applications. In…

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