From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
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 …
Featuring news about Mike West, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Terry Speed, Simon Tavaré
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…
Members of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) are pleased to announce the 2014 awards, which were presented to the winners at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, by COPSS Chair Jane Pendergast.
The winner of the Presidents’ Award is Martin J. Wainwright of the University of…