From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
WNAR (the Western North American Region of The International Biometric Society) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics combine each year to hold the IMS-sponsored WNAR/IMS meeting: this year it was in the lovely location of Honolulu, Hawaii. Wesley Johnson, professor of statistics at the University of California, Irvine, was one…
Terry Speed returns to the topic of gender equity, and wonders how can we learn from the model of Male Champions of Change?
The Treasurer’s Report was printed in the June/July 2014 issue. The Financial Statements are printed in the PDF version of the October/November 2014 issue, or you can download them as a separate PDF here.…
The Bernoulli Society recently approved the establishment of the Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics, to be awarded every two years beginning in 2015. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to…
The Fields Medals are the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union. Among this year’s four recipients is IMS member Martin Hairer (University of Warwick, UK), who delivered a Medallion lecture at the IMS annual meeting in Sydney in July.
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