IMS awards
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. The next IMS Annual Meeting is at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics (July 11–15, 2016, hosted by the Fields Institute…
Thilaksha Tharanganie, who is a PhD student in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, Australia, wrote to share her experiences from the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on August 2015 in Seattle, USA.
JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America and this time …
It’s that time of year again to consider who to nominate for the IMS awards.
The Carver Medal was created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. It is open to any IMS member who has not previously been elected President.…
The IMS has eight funds that are open to contributions, detailed below. The Institute would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for contributing to the IMS. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit http://imstat.org/membership/gift.htm.
Blackwell Lecture Fund
The Blackwell Lecture Fund is used to…
The 2015 Schramm Lecture at the 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting in Oxford, UK, in July, was presented by Michel Ledoux, University of Toulouse. Michel’s lecture was on “Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities.”
This year’s Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference welcomed over 400…