From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Editor-in-Chief, Applied Probability and Operations Research Deadline for Nominations: October 31, 2007
The Applied Probability Society (APS) of INFORMS, in cooperation with the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), will publish a new journal in the area of applied probability, tentatively titled Applied Probability and Operations Research (APOR). It…
The IMS recently entered into an agreement with the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) to print, distribute and market Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probability and Statistics (AIHP). IHP will maintain full ownership, copyright and editorial control of the journal. The partnership allows both organizations to achieve greater economies of…
The International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IMS), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have formed a Committee of “Quantitative Assessment of Research” that will investigate various aspects of the quantitative assessment of research in mathematics. The Committee will, in particular, look…
The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Sixth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award will be conferred…
Bradley Efron of Stanford University, an IMS Fellow, former IMS president, and current editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics, has been awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush.
The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be…