World Congress: register now
The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics) will be held on July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. Scheduled every four years, it is jointly organized by IMS and the [ More.. ]
Members’ News: January/February 2012
Featuring news items about Itai Benjamini, Johan Fellman, Michael Akritas, S.N. Lahiri, Dimitris Politis, Jerome Reiter, Alan Karr, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, and the IMS online journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability
Piled Higher and Deeper
Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham. This cartoon, originally published at www.phdcomics.com, echoes the sentiments in Terry Speed’s last column. You can read what he has to say [ More.. ]
Museum of Mathematics open to ideas
When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the [ More.. ]
Obituary: Charles B. Bell, 1928–2010
Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 20, 1928. To the statistical community he was affectionately called “Chuck.” He graduated from Xavier University at an early [ More.. ]
Obituary: Paul Meier, 1924–2011
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The [ More.. ]
IMU seeks feedback on journal ranking system
We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM [ More.. ]
Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34. Each year [ More.. ]
Terence’s Stuff: Looking
In this column, Terry Speed argues against the temptation to avoid looking hard at larger data sets. Seek…and find answers!
New Schramm Lecture in Probability and Stochastic Processes
The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be [ More.. ]
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