From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established the AWM-Sadosky Prize in Analysis. This prize will be awarded every other year, beginning in 2014. The purpose of the award is to highlight exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in her career. The field will…
Support Available for Activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
March 1, 2013 is the deadline for requests for support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, Postdoctoral Fellows, Sabbaticals, and Short-term Visitors for activities beginning Fall 2013 at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS). All areas of research at the interface of biology and mathematics will be considered.…
IMS President Hans Künsch writes:
2013 is a special year for IMS since we celebrate not only the International Year of Statistics, but also the special year for Mathematics of Planet Earth. This gives us unique opportunities to promote the importance of our fields to other scientific communities, to decision…
Featuring news about Terry Speed, Bob Blumenthal and David Findley
Terry Speed receives Australia’s Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation
Terry Speed, who is well-known to readers of the IMS Bulletin, is a world leader in bioinformatics. He has been recognized for his pioneering work by the awarding of…
Dozens of universities, research institutes, foundations, and scientific societies, including the IMS, have joined forces to celebrate 2013 as a special year for the Mathematics of Planet Earth (see Hans Künsch’s cover article). The Annals of Applied Statistics has been publishing cutting edge research in this area for five years,…