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