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Professor Bimal K. Roy, Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, was given the Padma Shri award, one of the highest civic honors in India, by the central government of India on January 26, 2015. Professor Roy was honored for his versatile and innovative contributions to numerous areas of theoretical computer…
The NISS Board of Trustees established the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research in 2000 to honor Sacks’ service as the founding director of NISS. The annual prize of $1,000, to be presented this year at the NISS/SAMSI Joint Statistical Meetings Reception in Seattle, Washington, recognizes high- quality cross-disciplinary research…
Two new books in the IMS Textbooks series have been published. They are: The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences by Dan Romik (IMS member price with 40% discount is USD 59.40 for the hardback [non-member price USD 99.00] or USD 23.99 paperback [USD 39.99]); and Noise Sensitivity of Boolean …
Contributing Editor Robert Adler writes:
This is the fourth, and final, of my columns on the Topology, Probability, and Statistics triad. You might recall that the common thread was TDA, or Topological Data Analysis. I started by advertising TDA in a casual commercial for the IMS community, continued with some…