Statistics and Science: A Report of the London Workshop on the Future of the Statistical Sciences (http://bit.ly/londonreport) is the product of a high-level meeting in London last November attended by 100 prominent statisticians from around the world. This invitation-only summit was the capstone event of the International Year of Statistics,…
Each year the outgoing IMS President delivers an address at the IMS Annual Meeting, which, this year, was the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney (July 9-14, 2014), a joint meeting of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI) and IMS. Bin Yu, Chancellor’s Professor of Statistics and EECS, University of …
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Several IMS core and co-sponsored journals have new editors, whose three-year terms start January 1, 2015.
Maria Eulalia Vares will be the new editor of the Annals of Probability, taking over from Chris Burdzy.
The co-sponsored publications Electronic Communications in Probability (ECP) and the Electronic Journal of Probability (EJP)…
IMS members encouraged to participate in SAMSI’s 2015–16 Research Programs in Computational Neuroscience and Forensic Science
SAMSI announces its two new and exciting programs for 2015–16. They are Challenges in Computational Neuroscience (CCNS) and Statistics and Applied Mathematics in Forensic Science (Forensics). IMS members will have many opportunities to collaborate…