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.
Read More...World Congress: register now
The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics) will be held on July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. Scheduled every four years, it is jointly organized by IMS and the [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: January/February 2012
Featuring news items about Itai Benjamini, Johan Fellman, Michael Akritas, S.N. Lahiri, Dimitris Politis, Jerome Reiter, Alan Karr, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, and the IMS online journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability
Read More...Piled Higher and Deeper
Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham. This cartoon, originally published at www.phdcomics.com, echoes the sentiments in Terry Speed’s last column. You can read what he has to say [ More.. ]
Read More...Museum of Mathematics open to ideas
When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Charles B. Bell, 1928–2010
Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 20, 1928. To the statistical community he was affectionately called “Chuck.” He graduated from Xavier University at an early [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Paul Meier, 1924–2011
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The [ More.. ]
Read More...IMU seeks feedback on journal ranking system
We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM [ More.. ]
Read More...Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34. Each year [ More.. ]
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