From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s annual meeting is in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney, July 7–10.
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of…
The IMS Textbooks series, published with Cambridge University Press, give introductory accounts of topics of current concern suitable for advanced courses at master’s level, for doctoral students and for individual study. They are typically shorter than for a fully developed textbook, often arising from material created for a topical course.…
Jean Opsomer is the Program Chair for the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, which will take place August 2–7, 2014. He writes:
JSM 2014 (http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2014/index.cfm) will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts, August 2–7, 2014. As I am writing this, the members of the…
Beginning this issue, we are starting an initiative to engage more student members of the IMS in Bulletin reading and independent research activities. The new Student Puzzle Corner will contain one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search.
Current student members …