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.. ]
Read More...Blackwell Lecture Fund
The Blackwell Lecture Fund will be used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose of this lecture is to honor Blackwell, to keep his name alive [ More.. ]
Read More...Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré Prize
Thierry Bodineau and Lorenzo Zambotti are Editors of the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré. They write: Every two years, the Probability and Statistics section of the Annales de l’Institut Henri [ More.. ]
Read More...Bulletin columns: Rick Durrett and Xiao-Li Meng
Rick’s Ramblings is Going Online Rick Durrett bids us farewell—in this publication, at least. He wrote [in the print version, December 2012 issue]: My ideas for columns come at random [ More.. ]
Read More...Mentoring opportunities
Web-based mentoring for students in statistics at Universities in developing countries Would you like to mentor a PhD or masters student in a developing country from a distance, over the [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Right or Wrong, Our Confidence Intervals
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: A wonderful thing about tenure is that once I had it, I never had to control my irresistible urge to waste my time on [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Does it work in practice?
For many statisticians, working in theory is the same as working in practice. Terry Speed begs to disagree.
Read More...Members’ News: October/November 2012
Featuring news items about Terry Lyons, Nat Schenker, James L Rosenberger, Marie Davidian, Robert N. Rodriguez, Adrian Smith. Schramm Lecturer for 2014: Terry Lyons We are pleased to announce [ More.. ]
Read More...SAMSI Renewed for Another Five Years by NSF
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) has been renewed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for five years. This is the second renewal the grant has received by [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Special Invited Lecturers in 2013
Next year’s Special Invited Lectures are three Wald Lectures, a Rietz Lecture, and eight Medallion Lectures. At the JSM, in Montreal from August 3–8, 2013, the Wald Lectures will be [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Laha Travel Awards: recipients’ experiences
Each year the IMS awards funds to young researchers to travel to present a paper or poster at the IMS annual meeting. Following this year’s World Congress in Istanbul, we [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Awards: nominate or apply now!
Each year the IMS makes awards in the following categories: Tweedie New Researcher Award Richard L. Tweedie played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at [ More.. ]
Read More...Awards and Prizes
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. The purpose of the AWM is to encourage women and girls to study and to have [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Mendeléeff, Bode, and Precognition
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: Perhaps it says something about human psychology that if a theoretical model for some problem makes predictions — better yet, sensational or bizarre predictions — which later come out [ More.. ]
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