From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Three IMS Fellows have been recently elected to academies. Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Richard Durrett (Cornell University) and Sir John Kingman (past director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge) have been elected to…

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Statistics, up to now a category within the Math archive, will now be a top-level archive. See http://arxiv.org/archive/stat. The existing math.ST category will be linked to new stat.TH category. The statistics archive is organized into the following five categories: Applications (stat.AP): Biology, Education, Epidemiology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Medical, Physical…

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Deadline: April 20, 2007 To stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research, the National Science Foundation intends to support up to seven NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in 2008. A panel chosen by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences will make the selections from among the submitted proposals. In the…

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Select volumes are on sale for $10 each including shipping. Order online. Note: Some volumes may have slight discoloration to the cover, but all contents are intact.…

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Recognizing that the interests of IMS members now span an enormous range from pure mathematical theory to collaborations with scientists in numerous fields, IMS is launching a new journal, The Annals of Applied Statistics, aimed at papers in the applied half of this range. Published quarterly in both print…

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