From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Attention students! The prudsys Data Mining Cup kicks off for the 17th year in the spring of 2016. Starting on 6 April 2016, international student teams will put their skills to the test competing in a practical task about intelligent data analysis. Cash prizes and recognition await the winners at…
IMS President Richard Davis writes:
During my one-year apprenticeship as President-elect of IMS, I was often queried about my agenda for IMS. The word “agenda” can conjure up both positive and negative feelings. If a dean enthusiastically espouses a new agenda, then faculty are apt to cringe at the idea…
Featuring news about Donald P. Gaver III, Michael Paul Cohen, Patricia A. Jacobs, Alan F. Karr, Stephen Portnoy, James Matthew Robins, Chih-Ling Tsai, Alyson G. Wilson; Judith Rousseau; Probal Chaudhuri, Radu Craiu, Byron J. Gajewski, Jianhua Huang, Nicholas Jewell, Jiming Jiang, Abba Meyer Krieger, Qi Long, Michael T. Longnecker, Wenbin Lu, Guy Philip Nason, Sonja Petrović, Natesh Pillai, Bruce David Spencer, David Spiegelhalter, Ajit Tamhane, David Alan Stephens and Glenn Stone.
We are pleased to introduce the new editors for four of the IMS journals—Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability, Annals of Statistics and Electronic Journal of Statistics— whose terms start January 1, 2016.
The Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS) has a new Editor-in-Chief, Tilmann Gneiting, who has been…
The 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS. Held every four years, the congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes the latest scientific developments in theoretical, methodological, applied…