From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Statistics grad student, Lu Lingzi, was a victim in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. She was a graduate student in Boston University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. BU has endowed a memorial scholarship in her memory. At her memorial service she was remembered as someone who loved statistics,…
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) will hold a writing workshop for junior researchers (subject to availability of funds). The goal of the workshop is to provide instruction in how to write journal articles and grant proposals. Participants will be required to provide…
Please click here to view the report on the comments received by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in response to the request for input on the structure of National Science Foundation to support research in statistical sciences.
You can view other documents relating to this matter at https://www.imstat.org/nsf_dms.htm …
The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect (Erwin Bolthausen) and, this year, 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Sourav Chatterjee, Richard Davis, Holger Dette, Rick Durrett, Steffen Lauritzen, Susan Murphy, Leonid Mytnik, James Norris, Akimichi Takemura, Jonathan…
Jingchen Liu receives 2013 Tweedie Award
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jingchen Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his PhD in 2008 from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia
University. The…