IMS Handbook

The IMS Handbook contains the bylaws and constitution, the rules and responsibilities of the officers and the council, committees, activities with other societies and meetings. Current version approved by IMS Council 5/13/2011.

Table of Contents

1. Formal Structure


• Constitution
• By-laws


2. Officers


• Conflict of Interest Statement for Officers and Council
• Executive Committee
• President
• Executive Secretary
• Treasurer
• Program Secretary
• Editors
• Managing Editor(s)


3. Council
4. Committees


• IMS Resolution on Equal Opportunities
• Terms of IMS Committees
• Committee Voting Procedure (applies to all committees for nominating officers or individuals for honors)
• Committee on the Asia Pacific Rim Meeting
• Committee for the Carver Medal
• Committee on Electronic Issues
• Committee on Fellows
• Committee on Finance
• Committee on IMS China Guidelines
• Committee on Memorials
• Committee on New Researchers
• Committee on Nominations
• Committee on Publications
• Committee to Select Administrative Officers
• Committee to Select Editors
• Committee on Special Lectures
• Committee on Travel Awards


5. Meetings


• Special Lectures at IMS Sponsored/Co-sponsored Meetings
• Co-sponsored and Sponsored Meetings
• Program Chairs
• Local Chairs
• Contributed Papers Chair
• Usual Number of Sessions
• Number of Contributed Sessions
• Resolution on Freedom of Access to Participation in Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meetings
• Resolution on Equal Opportunities


6. Activities with Other Organizations


• Terms of Committees with Other Societies
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• Bernoulli Society
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)
• Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
• National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
• Springer Statistics Encyclopedia