From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
A wonderful thing about tenure is that once I had it, I never had to control my irresistible urge to waste my time on the most useless of all things. The other day, a close friend said to me, “But I was almost right!”…
For many statisticians, working in theory is the same as working in practice. Terry Speed begs to disagree.
The December 2012 Bulletin (Volume 41, issue 8) is now online.Contents include:
New Researchers Conference
Members’ News: S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, Dipak De
Blackwell Lecture Fund
AIHP Prize Papers
Bulletin columnists
IMS awards: still time to nominate or apply
Mentoring opportunities
Anirban’s Angle: Right or Wrong, Our Confidence Intervals…
Featuring news items about Terry Lyons, Nat Schenker, James L Rosenberger, Marie Davidian, Robert N. Rodriguez, Adrian Smith.
Schramm Lecturer for 2014: Terry Lyons
We are pleased to announce the 2014 Schramm Lecturer will be Terry Lyons.
Terry is the Wallis Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, UK. He…
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) has been renewed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for five years. This is the second renewal the grant has received by NSF. SAMSI is one of eight mathematical institutes funded by the NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences, but this is the…