March 2012 Bulletin online now
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Read More...World Congress: funding update
The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which includes the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting, will be held July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Congress organizers are pleased to announce new sources of funding.
Read More...Members’ News: March 2012
Featuring news items about Peter Glynn, Michael Waterman, Claudia Neuhauser, George Casella, Dipak Dey, Wing Kam Fung, Sastry Pantula, Xiaotong Shen, Sudipto Banerjee, Jiti Gao, Stefano Iacus, Ranjan Maitra, Axel Munk, Haiyan Wang, Judith Rousseau
Read More...IMS Journal News: AOS, AAP, EJP, ECP
New Editors for Annals of Statistics Peter Hall and Runze Li will serve as Editors of The Annals of Statistics for the three-year term January 1, 2013 to December 31, [ More.. ]
Read More...Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics special issue
The Editors of the IMS-supported journal Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics issue a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue: We are pleased to announce a special issue [ More.. ]
Read More...Spiegelman Award call for nominations
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2012 Mortimer Spiegelman Award honoring a statistician, 40 years of age or younger, who has made [ More.. ]
Read More...Rick’s Ramblings: Models. Behaving. Badly.
Celeb culture? Gossip? No, Rick Durrett is reviewing Emanuel Derman’s book on mathematical models in finance.
Read More...Obituary: Johannes Kemperman, 1924–2011
Johannes H.B. Kemperman’s research and teaching career of 50 years included ten years at Purdue, 25 years at the University of Rochester, and ten years at Rutgers. During this time [ More.. ]
Read More...SAMSI partners with Indian institutes
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) has teamed up with the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) and several institutes in India (CMI, IISc,ISI, IMSC) [ More.. ]
Read More...How a nonexistent publication can have 20 citations
Letter to the Editor Dear Editor My name is Czesław Stępniak. I have been a member of the IMS for over 20 years. I have written more than 50 articles [ More.. ]
Read More...Rajshahi University stat dept’s Golden Jubilee celebrations
Rajshahi University Statistics Department held its Golden Jubilee Celebrations on December 23–24, 2011, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the department. The Statistics Department at Rajshahi University, [ More.. ]
Read More...ISOSS meeting, new President
The 11th biennial Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-11) has elected Professor Ali S. Hadi of The American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt as the new President of the [ More.. ]
Read More...Support available at US National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
March 1, 2012 is the deadline for requests for NIMBioS support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, Postdoctoral Fellows, Sabbaticals, and Short-term Visitors for activities beginning summer/fall 2012. All areas of [ More.. ]
Read More...Indian Statistical Association and JISA
Hira L. Koul, President of the Indian Statistical Association, writes: The Indian Statistical Association was established in 1960 at Bombay (now Mumbai). The late Professor M.C. Chakrabarty, the founding Head [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Correlation
In this column, Terry Speed recalls his vow always to look at a scatter plot before calculating a Pearson correlation.
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