SPA2013: book your hotel early
Brian Rider is chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, to be held from July 29 to August 2, 2013, in [ More.. ]
Read More...Rick’s Ramblings: Why Prove Theorems?
Rick Durrett writes: Picture this: it was the ides of March, a sunny day in Durham, the day before the most frequent Google search from the Duke campus was “Where [ More.. ]
Read More...Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal Year 2011
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2011, and reviews the fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011) [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Laha Awards announced
Thanks to a generous bequest from the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS website: update your own records
Update your own member record The IMS website, http://imstat.org, now offers members the facility to log in to their accounts and update their profiles. Please sign in at https://secure.imstat.org/members/imsmember.htm and [ More.. ]
Read More...Proposals and nominations
Call for Proposals for SAMSI Summer Programs and Workshops; Call for Nominations for NISS 2012 Jerome Sacks Award
Read More...IMS Elections open
Each year IMS holds elections so that its members can choose the next President-Elect of the Institute and people to represent them on IMS Council. The candidate for President-Elect is [ More.. ]
Read More...April/May 2012 Bulletin online now
The PDF version of the April/May 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF from the archives here.
Read More...2012 Tweedie Award: Huixia Wang
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Huixia Judy Wang as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Huixia received her PhD in 2006 from the University of [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: April/May 2012
Featuring news items about Ming Yuan, Allan Sly, Sebastien Roch, CR Rao
Read More...Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance
COPSS-CMS white paper released The white paper “Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance” has been released. The paper was commissioned by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies at the [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Franklin Graybill, 1921-2012
Franklin Arno Graybill, Professor Emeritus and founding Chair of the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University, died Friday, February 17, 2012 at the age of 90. He is survived [ More.. ]
Read More...COPSS Fisher Lecturer: Roderick Little
Roderick Little to deliver Fisher Lecture: “In Praise of Simplicity, Not Mathematistry! Ten Simple, Powerful Ideas for the Statistical Scientist” John D. Kalbfleisch, and Ross L. Prentice, Chair of the [ More.. ]
Read More...Awards: nominate or apply now
AWM Humphreys Award Deadline: April 30, 2012 The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established a prize in memory of M. Gweneth Humphreys to recognize outstanding [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Oscars for Statistics?
Terry Speed wonders whether the Hollywood version of the statistical analysis of baseball, sabermetrics, in the film Moneyball does us any good…
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