AOAS marks Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013
Dozens of universities, research institutes, foundations, and scientific societies, including the IMS, have joined forces to celebrate 2013 as a special year for the Mathematics of Planet Earth (see Hans [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Journal editors
Several IMS core and co-sponsored publications have new editors, whose three-year terms start January 1, 2013. Timo Seppäläinen is the new editor of the Annals of Applied Probability, taking over [ More.. ]
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The IMS has a Facebook page: find us at https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI. Give us a “like” if you like!
Read More...US National Science Foundation support for research in the statistical sciences
Last year the Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Sastry Pantula, proposed changing the division’s name to the Division of [ More.. ]
Read More...Blackwell Lecture
Contributing Editor Peter Bickel writes: David Blackwell died on July 8, 2010. Since that time there have been a number of celebrations of his life and accomplishments: memorial sessions in [ More.. ]
Read More...Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Nominations are invited for the 2013 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health. The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture was initiated in 1993 in memory of Myrto [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: W. Jackson Hall 1930–2012
W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, PhD, Fellow of the IMS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester, died peacefully [ More.. ]
Read More...The XL Files: Statisticians’ Impact, from Backyard to Bedroom?
Our new Contributing Editor, Xiao-Li Meng, used to be Chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, and has recently been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at [ More.. ]
Read More...SAMSI News
SAMSI Director on Board on Environment Change and Society for National Research Council Report Issued on Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis Richard Smith, Director of the Statistical [ More.. ]
Read More...Large-Scale Inference Monograph out in paperback
The IMS Monograph Large-Scale Inference by Bradley Efron, published by Cambridge University Press, is now out in a new paperback edition. IMS members can obtain a copy with a 40% [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Child Care Initiative
The IMS Child Care Initiative is designed to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s IMS Annual Meeting [ More.. ]
Read More...Laha Travel Awards: application deadline extended to March 1
The IMS Laha Awards provide funds for students and new researchers to travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (at JSM in Montreal this year). The application [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: n vs n-1
“Why is the denominator in the sample mean n, but the denominator for the sample variance is n−1?” a reader asked me. My answer needs to be comprehensible to his [ More.. ]
Read More...New Researchers Conference
15th IMS New Researchers Conference, jointly sponsored by the IMS and the SSC August 1–3, 2013 at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada The 15th IMS [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: December 2012
Featuring news items about S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, and Dipak Dey. . Swedish University gives Honorary Doctorate to Jammalamadaka Professor S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Department of Statistics and Applied [ More.. ]
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