From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
David Aldous reports: The 2007 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Richard Kenyon of Brown University, USA. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley in October 2007.
Richard Kenyon received his PhD in 1990, advised…
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Scott L. Zeger as the recipient of the 2007 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Dr. Zeger, the Frank Hurley and Catherine Dorrier Professor in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, delivered a lecture entitled…
IPAM is holding a 1-day workshop on October 29. The workshop is intended to aid those interested in writing proposals to understand the initiative better and to help them in finding collaborators.
The NSF is rolling out a major new initiative in late September on “Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation.” This…
Please note that the next deadline for the NSF-AWM Travel Grant applications is October 7, 2007. The Association for Women in Mathematics travel program supports two types of travel grants for women:
Travel Grants in mathematics, for mathematicians attending mathematics conferences.
Travel Grants for mathematicians and mathematics education researchers: for…
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association invites nominations for the 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, honoring a statistician aged 40 or younger who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics. The award was established in 1970 and is presented annually at the APHA meeting.…