From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Synopsis of Program:
The goal of the Undergraduate Biology and Mathematics (UBM) activity is to enhance undergraduate education and training at the intersection of the biological and mathematical sciences and to better prepare undergraduate biology or mathematics students to pursue graduate study and careers in fields that integrate the mathematical…
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Nominations are being accepted for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize, to be awarded at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting in July 2008.
Anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied and computational mathematics is eligible for this prize. Nominations must be…
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge, U.K., is hosting a six-month research program on “Statistical Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data” from January through June, 2008. The program is attracting some of the leading researchers in statistics, computer science, and computational biology. See www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/ for more details on…
This is the IMS Presidential Address given by Jim Pitman at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City, July 30, 2007. View it in the IMS Bulletin, Vol 36, Issue 8, pages 12–15 [pdf]
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