From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Cornell Library digitizes historic collection of Eugene Dynkin interviews
Cornell University Library has acquired a collection of interviews of mathematicians conducted over many years by Eugene Dynkin, Cornell’s Emeritus A. R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics.
Dynkin worked with the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) and Digital Scholarship…
Editor-in-Chief of the new Stochastic Systems journal is Peter W. Glynn, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He writes:
The IMS and the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS are engaged in the cooperative publication of a new online open access (free) journal called Stochastic …
Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich, profiles former IMS president S.R.S. Varadhan, who, as reported in the last issue, has been named a recipient of the US National Medal of Science.
The National Medal of Science is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers for outstanding…
Competition for an Open Source Exhibition of Virtual Models
The IMS is a partner in the following competition as part of the world initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013). The proposed exhibition will have a virtual part as well as instructions to realize material parts. Examples of modules or…
Kavita Ramanan reports:
The 16th Applied Probability Conference, sponsored by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS and co-sponsored by the IMS, was held from July 6–8, 2011, on the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. This three-day conference is part of a series of biannual…