IMS Bulletin
Bhramar Mukherjee, Treasurer/Secretary of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, presents her profile of, and interview with, the winner of the Presidents’ Awards, Sam Kou.
Congratulations to Samuel Kou, Harvard University, the 2012 COPSS Presidents’ Award winner! The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annually presents awards to…
We present reports from three IMS co-sponsored meetings that took place over the summer months:
The 14th IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
Ery Arias-Castro reports:
The meeting took place at the University of California, San Diego, over three days (July 26–28) packed with talks and posters…
This “Piled Higher and Deeper” comic strip by Jorge Cham seems apposite:
“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham: www.phdcomics.com
No-one wants to be seen as a quitter. And none of us want to advise a student, colleague or friend to quit doing something in which they have invested heavily.…
Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çağlar were co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee for the Eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, location of the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting. They reflect on the successes of the meeting:
This summer, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held in…
Featuring news items about Howell Tong, Mir Masoom Ali, Jianqing Fan, Ker-Chau Li, Ray Carroll, Nancy Flournoy, Fritz Scheuren, Marvin Zelen, William Meeker, Jim Landwehr, Linda Young