From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
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Jagdish Sharan Rustagi, an eminent statistician and a fellow of IMS, passed away on September 21, 2014, in Sunnyvale, California. He was born on August 13, 1923, in the village of Sikri located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in (then) British India. He obtained his BA…
Contributing Editor Vlada Limic is warming to her theme from her March 2014 and June/July 2014 columns: a workshop that enables more (actual) work to be done…
I am eager to continue with the program set in my previous columns. Before this, let me mention that a statistician colleague…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is January 15, 2015. The names and …
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for the Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology, to be held June 22-25, 2015, at NIMBioS.
Objectives: This collaborative workshop aims to help build a strong collaboration network of women working on problems in mathematical…
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,…