Royal Society elects Steffen Lauritzen and Simon Tavaré
The UK’s Royal Society is a fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Fellows are elected for life through a peer [ More.. ]
Read More...Welcome!
Welcome to the new and improved IMS Bulletin website! We are developing the way we communicate news and information more effectively with members. The print Bulletin is still with us (free with IMS membership), and still available as a PDF to download, but in addition, we are placing some of the news, columns and articles on this blog site, which will allow you the opportunity to interact more. Like what you see? Leave a comment, or make a suggestion. You can still get in touch by email, of course: bulletin@imstat.org. Have a look around!
Read More...Academic statisticians and probabilists
Dimitris Politis writes: Many IMS members are educators, and thus care about improving and evaluating teaching. In the last three decades, student evaluations of classroom teaching have played a prevalent [ More.. ]
Read More...Journals and research publications
Dimitris Politis writes: Our journals are alive and well, and the new Annals of Applied Statistics has become an instant winner with authors and readers. As I mentioned in my [ More.. ]
Read More...Mathematical Statistics: where is the profession heading?
Dimitris Politis writes: Statistics has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last two decades, adapting to a rapidly changing scientific environment. For example, under the leadership of pioneers such as [ More.. ]
Read More...Open Forum? What’s that?
Dimitris Politis writes: With this new blog website, we are introducing a new feature, the Open Forum. Any IMS member can propose a topic for discussion. Email your subject and perhaps an opening paragraph (send this to bulletin@imstat.org) and we’ll post it to start off the discussion. Other readers can join in the debate by commenting on the post. Search other Open Forum posts by using the Open Forum category link on the right. We hope that readers will take advantage of these interactive features of the new Bulletin website. Start a discussion today!
Read More...Laha Travel Awards
Thanks to a generous bequest by 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...JCGS now free with IMS membership
IMS Members: you can now access JCGS (the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics) free as part of your membership. Login to the members’ area to read the latest issue.
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Interdisciplinary Statistics
Terry Speed recently attended a meeting on interdisciplinary statistical science, which got him thinking, what does that mean?
Read More...Obituary: Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924–2010
In the back of the cab, Benoît Mandelbrot was at work. We had an appointment in Manhattan together, and the Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician did not like the geometry of the [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS announces new Fellows
The IMS Committee on Fellows has selected 18 new IMS Fellows this year. They will be presented at JSM in Miami, at the IMS Presidential Address on Monday, August 1, [ More.. ]
Read More...Guggenheim Fellowship
In its 2011 competition for the US and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars, chosen from some 3,000 applicants. Only [ More.. ]
Read More...US National Academy of Sciences elects members
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among [ More.. ]
Read More...American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Members
Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among [ More.. ]
Read More...2011 Harry C Carver Medal
The 2011 IMS Carver Medal is awarded to Professor Ross Leadbetter, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina. The citation reads, “For his contributions to the success [ More.. ]
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