Sacco and Vanzetti

Thanks to Christian Robert for observing on his estimable  x'og that today is the 90th

anniversary  of the execution  of Nicolas Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti in Boston.   In remembrance

I suggest reading William Carlos Williams poem Impromptu: The Suckers which is shorter than his epic

Paterson  but very tuned to our times.  While I'm at it, I might as well also recommend Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson,

since it is really an homage to Williams.

Quantile Regression Introductory Overview at JSM 2017

Lan Wang (UMinn), Xuming He (UMich) and I gave an introductory overview lecture at the
2017 JSM meeting in Baltimore a couple of days ago.  Slides are available here.  A photo of
the three of us, and Annie Qu, who was chairing the session taken by Regina Liu appears below.