From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Gareth Roberts writes:
In 2005, the Engineering and Physical Research Council of the UK and the University of Warwick jointly funded the establishment of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) to be housed within the Department of Statistics at Warwick. External funding for the grant was approximately £4.1M.…
Bhramar Mukherjee, Treasurer/Secretary of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, presents her profile of, and interview with, the winner of the Presidents’ Awards, Sam Kou.
Congratulations to Samuel Kou, Harvard University, the 2012 COPSS Presidents’ Award winner! The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annually presents awards to…
We present reports from three IMS co-sponsored meetings that took place over the summer months:
The 14th IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
Ery Arias-Castro reports:
The meeting took place at the University of California, San Diego, over three days (July 26–28) packed with talks and posters…
This “Piled Higher and Deeper” comic strip by Jorge Cham seems apposite:
“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham: www.phdcomics.com
No-one wants to be seen as a quitter. And none of us want to advise a student, colleague or friend to quit doing something in which they have invested heavily.…
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has established the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis to highlight exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in her career. The prize will be awarded every other year with the first prize presented at the AWM Reception at…