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Invited by the Center for Statistical Science at Peking University, Professor Peter Hall delivered a short course on “Methodology and Theory for the Bootstrap” from March 15th to 24th, 2012. The short course comprised 16 lectures, and attracted more than 100 graduate students and faculty members from schools across China,…
The IMS Committee on Fellows is pleased to announce that they have selected 17 new IMS Fellows for 2012. Congratulations to all!
David B. Allison of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, for outstanding leadership in the application of statistics to the study of obesity and genetics and for mentoring…
Thomas Cover, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University, died on March 26, aged 73, following a short illness.
Cover arrived at Stanford from MIT as a fresh PhD student in the fall of 1960, and spent almost his entire career there, holding a joint position…
Brian Rider is chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, to be held from July 29 to August 2, 2013, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. If you are thinking of attending the meeting, Brian advises you to book your accommodation as…