From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The American Mathematical Society has applied to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funds to permit partial travel support for U.S. mathematicians attending the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2014) August 13 – 21, 2014, in Seoul, Korea. Subject to the award decision by the NSF, the Society is…
2013 IMS Fellows, Laha Awardees and Travel Awardees announced. Each Fellow and Awardee will be honored at the IMS Presidential Address during the Joint Statistics Meetings in Montreal. You can view the list of Awardees here.…
The annual IMS Council election results are in! We are pleased to announce that the next IMS President-Elect is Erwin Bolthausen.
This year 12 candidates stood for six places on Council (including one two-year term to fill the place vacated by Erwin Bolthausen). The new IMS Council members are: Richard…
Featuring news about David Donoho; Kathryn Roeder; Maurice Priestley; C R Rao; Donald Richards; Wenbo Li
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Giving a banquet speech after a whole conference day is never easy—few people long for yet another speech. My recent speech also faced an extra challenge. The speech was scheduled after as many karaoke performances as the number of Chinese dishes, except that the former…