From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Rick Durrett writes:
Picture this: it was the ides of March, a sunny day in Durham, the day before the most frequent Google search from the Duke campus was “Where is Lehigh University?” I was having lunch with a job candidate in computer science and explaining the difficulties of proving…
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2011, and reviews the fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011) financial statements. You can read the report in the June/July 2012 issue, or download the PDF separately here.…
Thanks to a generous bequest from the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (this year, at the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9–14). This…
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The IMS website, http://imstat.org, now offers members the facility to log in to their accounts and update their profiles. Please sign in
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Call for Proposals for SAMSI Summer Programs and Workshops; Call for Nominations for NISS 2012 Jerome Sacks Award