As we reported in the June/July issue, Susan Murphy was among five IMS Fellows elected this year to the National Academy of Sciences. We featured a profile of Larry Wasserman in the last issue, and we’ll bring you profiles of the others—Steve Evans, Yuval Peres and Nancy Reid—in future…
Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and EECS, University of California at Berkeley wrote this Invited note for http://odbms.org (The Resource Portal for Big Data, New Data Management Technologies and Data Science). We reprint it here with permission:
In the era of big data, much of the research in academia and…
Edward Dunne, the executive editor of Mathematical Reviews, and Klaus Hulek, Editor-in-Chief of zbMATH, are seeking your input:
Mathematical Reviews (MR) and zbMATH cooperate in maintaining the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), which is used by these reviewing services, publishers, and others to categorize items in the mathematical sciences literature. The…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
For many statisticians, “Peter Hall” is a synonym for prolificacy. In his 40 years of professional career since his PhD in 1976, Peter had published over 600 papers, mostly in top journals. However, if Peter’s legacy were remembered only by his scholarly accomplishments, we would be missing…
Are you a woman working in probability and related fields? Tai Melcher, one of the organizers of the Women in Probability group, writes:
Women in Probability is an organization for women engaged in research in probability theory and related fields. Our primary purpose is to provide networking and mentoring opportunities…