From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The 2011 IMS Carver Medal is awarded to Professor Ross Leadbetter, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina.
The citation reads, “For his contributions to the success of the 1994 Third World Congress at North Carolina, for his service on the IMS Council, and for his editorial…
An impressive lineup of plenary speakers has been selected for next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9 to 14, 2012.
Next year’s IMS Special Invited Lectures are the Wald Lectures, the Le Cam…
The Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS) is now free online to IMS members. To access the journal, log in to the members’ area here.
JCGS is celebrating its twentieth year of publication in 2011. Its editor, Richard Levine, says, “JCGS works to improve and extend the use…
Since the massive earthquake struck Japan on March 11, we, the local organizing committee and the scientific program committee have been intensively discussing about its effect on the meeting. In view of the tremendous damage caused by the disaster, we are afraid that we have no alternative but to postpone…