From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Featuring news items about S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, and Dipak Dey. .
Swedish University gives Honorary Doctorate to Jammalamadaka
Professor S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, who is an ISI Member and Fellow of the ASA and IMS, has…
The Blackwell Lecture Fund will be used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose of this lecture is to honor Blackwell, to keep his name alive and to inspire young people to emulate his achievements. The first lecture is expected to be presented in 2014.
Donations…
Thierry Bodineau and Lorenzo Zambotti are Editors of the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré. They write:
Every two years, the Probability and Statistics section of the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (AIHP) awards two prizes, of $1,500 each, for the best papers published in the journal during those…
Rick’s Ramblings is Going Online
Rick Durrett bids us farewell—in this publication, at least. He wrote [in the print version, December 2012 issue]:
My ideas for columns come at random times, which in many cases does not mesh well with the Bulletin publication schedule. In addition, an online…
Web-based mentoring for students in statistics at Universities in developing countries
Would you like to mentor a PhD or masters student in a developing country from a distance, over the internet? Join us at http://statmentoring.nr.no.
Statistical communities, academic and governmental, are growing in many developing countries, and statisticians play key…