Deadline: October 15, 2013 The Association for Women in Mathematics established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. In April 2013 the lecture was renamed AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and starting 2015 will be jointly sponsored by AWM…

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The IMS provides funds for new researchers to travel to attend IMS meetings. This year the last four Laha Travel Awards were made, and 12 of the new IMS Travel Awards, helping 16 new researchers to travel to the JSM. We asked them to share their experiences. Eleven of the …

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Tweedie New Researcher Award Richard L. Tweedie played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. With funds donated by his friends and family, the IMS created the Tweedie New Researcher Award to finance the winner to present the Tweedie…

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John Alfred Bather, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Sussex, died on September 7, 2012 at the age of 76, after suffering from myeloma. He was well known in both Europe and North America for his work on dynamic programming and decision theory. John was born on…

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Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: Lazily leafing through the pages of the 2012 World Almanac, I noticed a curiously common phenomenon. Be it the deserts, lakes, mountain peaks, rivers, or waterfalls in the world, or buildings, bridges, tunnels, books, operas, space expeditions—the most spectacular ones are visibly more impressive…

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