IMS news
A letter from the IMS auditors, Cuini and Panichi, Inc., appears in the December 2017 issue of the Bulletin. It refers to the Financial Statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016. This document is available on the IMS website at http://imstat.org/officials/reports.html (as are those for previous years).…
We in IMS must build the foundations of this emerging field
Data science is at a crossroads. Will it become a fundamentally applied discipline, a collection of heuristics without any coherent mathematical underpinning? Or will a rigorous foundation lead to practical new tools and algorithms with provable properties? IMS members…
We are delighted to introduce the newest members of IMS Council. The next President-Elect is Xiao-Li Meng, and the six new members of Council are: Mathias Drton, Peter Hoff, Greg Lawler, Antonietta Mira, Axel Munk and Byeong Park. All of these will serve a three-year term starting in August, apart…
Zhengjun Zhang, IMS Treasurer, writes:
This report details membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2016. The 2016 fiscal year end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2017, after the auditors have completed the annual process.
To read the complete report (in PDF format), published…
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…