June/July 2013 Bulletin now online
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Read More...INGenIOuS Idea
INGenIOuS: Strategies for advancing the mathematics and statistics workforce Deb Nolan writes: The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has joined the INGenIOuS community (Investing in the Next Generation through Innovative and [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: June/July 2013
Featuring news about Peter Hall, Gregory Lawler; Larry Shepp; Gareth Roberts, Terry Speed; Larry Brown, Bin Yu; Eyal Lubetsky; T.N. Sriram; Vincenzo Capasso; Peter Bickel. US National Academy of [ More.. ]
Read More...Call for Nominations for Sacks Award
Deadline June 15, 2013 Nominations are sought for the 2013 National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research. The prize recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research [ More.. ]
Read More...Foundation for Open Access Statistics
The Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California. We have applied for federal tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3). FOAS has [ More.. ]
Read More...NSF Support for Research in Statistical Sciences: IMS report
The IMS and other professional societies were asked last year, by the US National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, for input in response to five questions, which [ More.. ]
Read More...Statistics grad student killed in Boston marathon explosion
Lu Lingzi has been named as the third victim in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. She was a graduate student in Boston University’s Department of Mathematics and [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Donald L. Burkholder, 1927–2013
Donald Lyman Burkholder died in his sleep on April 14, 2013, in Urbana, Illinois. He was born January 19, 1927, in Octavia, Nebraska, the fourth of five children of Elmer [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Martin B. Wilk, 1922–2013
Martin B. Wilk, OC, died in Yorba Linda, California, on February 19, 2013; he was 90. Throughout his career, Martin demonstrated that a statistician can successfully span academia, industry and [ More.. ]
Read More...Medallion Lecture: Ya’acov Ritov
Ya’acov Ritov is professor in the Department of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 1983, and is a fellow of [ More.. ]
Read More...Medallion Lecture: Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA. He is a graduate of the Technion, Israel, and joined the faculty of UCLA in 1970, where he [ More.. ]
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