Nominations
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.…

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The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the third Wolfgang Doeblin Prize to be awarded at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto, in July 2016. The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize was founded in 2011. It is awarded bi-annually to a single individual for…

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Takashi Kumagai is Chair of the Selection Committee for the International Mathematical Union Itô Travel Awards. He writes: The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is supporting via the IMU Itô fund, the IMU Itô Travel Awards to invite young mathematicians to attend the Symposium on Stochastic Analysis, which is taking…

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In 2015 these IMS lectures have been/will be given: At APS (Istanbul, July 5–8, 2015), Medallion Kavita Ramanan; At SPA 2015 (Oxford, July 13–17, 2015), Schramm lecture Michel Ledoux and two Medallion lectures Scott Sheffield and Gregory Miermont; and At JSM (Seattle, August 8–13, 2015) Wald lectures Susan Murphy, Le…

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The Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is pleased to request nominations for the Fourteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award will be conferred on September 9, 2015. The award…

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