From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34. Each year the Lectureship is awarded to a promising biostatistical scientist who has made contributions to collaborative or methodologic research in the…

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In this column, Terry Speed argues against the temptation to avoid looking hard at larger data sets. Seek…and find answers!

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The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be given annually and will be featured at meetings (co)-sponsored by the IMS or the Bernoulli Society with a strong attendance…

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The 2011 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Scott Sheffield of M.I.T. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley, California, on Friday March 23, 2012. Scott Sheffield received his PhD in 2003, advised by Amir…

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Featuring news items about Krzysztof Burdzy, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Michel Ledoux, Anton Bovier, Michael Longnecker, James J. Cochran, Xuming He

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