From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Photo courtesy of Rowan Lindley
Dennis Lindley, a key figure in the modern Bayesian school of statistics, died on 14 December 2013 at the age of 90. The pervasive and growing influence of Bayesian methodology on data analysis and decision making might not have happened without the advocacy and persistence…
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”). Deadline June 15, 2014. The names and affiliations of …
Jason Schweinsberg reports:
The Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP) is an annual meeting that has been held in North America every Spring since 1981, when the first meeting was organized by Kai Lai Chung, Erhan Çinlar, and Ron Getoor. The 2014 SSP (http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/ssp2014.html) was held at the University of California…
Meet this year’s 18 winners of the IMS Travel Awards. The awards fund travel to present a paper/poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html
Jinyuan Chang, University of Melbourne
Haeran Cho, University of Bristol
Alexander Drewitz,…
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Irene M. Gamba to deliver the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 7–11, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. Meeting details are at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an14/…