From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
In the back of the cab, Benoît Mandelbrot was at work. We had an appointment in Manhattan together, and the Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician did not like the geometry of the route the taxi driver was taking.
“Why don’t you go down Second Avenue?” he asked the driver. Cross on 25th,…
The IMS Committee on Fellows has selected 18 new IMS Fellows this year. They will be presented at JSM in Miami, at the IMS Presidential Address on Monday, August 1, 2011, 8:00–9:30pm. The Fellows are:…
In its 2011 competition for the US and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars, chosen from some 3,000 applicants. Only one fellowship was awarded in statistics, to our editor, Dimitris Politis.…
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are two IMS Fellows, Stuart Geman and H. Vincent Poor.…
Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among them are two IMS Fellows, Michael I. Jordan (Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Professor of…