From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor or an equivalent position in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides a fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.…
The September 2012 Bulletin (Volume 41, issue 6) is now online.Contents include:
World Congress reviewedMembers’ News: Howell Tong, Mir Masoom Ali, Jianqing Fan, Ker-Chau Li,Ray Carroll, Nancy Flournoy, Fritz Scheuren, Marvin Zelen, WilliamMeeker, Jim Landwehr, Linda YoungWorld Congress photosIMS Presidential AddressWorld Congress: a view from NigeriaPresident’s Welcome: Hans KünschAward nominationsCOPSS…
Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çağlar were co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee for the Eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, location of the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting. They reflect on the successes of the meeting:
This summer, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held in…
Featuring news items about Howell Tong, Mir Masoom Ali, Jianqing Fan, Ker-Chau Li, Ray Carroll, Nancy Flournoy, Fritz Scheuren, Marvin Zelen, William Meeker, Jim Landwehr, Linda Young
One of the final acts of the outgoing IMS President is to deliver the Address at the IMS annual meeting. Ruth Williams, who is now Past-President, delivered this at the World Congress in July.
The IMS mission is “to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of…