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Access to the Current Index to Statistics (CIS) <http://statindex.org> will become open to the public effective January 1, 2017. Subscription fees will no longer be charged for any user. CIS will remain open until December 31, 2019 and at that time will be shut down.
After much consideration,…
In the March 2016 issue, Alexander Volfovsky wrote about the recently formed New Researchers Group (NRG). You can read it at https://imstat.org/2016/02/introducing-the-new-researchers-group/. We caught up with the other member of the NRG committee, Dan Sussman, to find out what has been happening more recently.
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The New Researchers Group…
We are delighted to announce that Vlada Limic will be the next Editor of the IMS Bulletin, taking over from Anirban DasGupta when his three-year term ends in December 2016.
Vlada is a CNRS research director at Université Paris Sud 11. She has been a contributing editor of the IMS…
The World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which was hosted by the Fields Institute, Toronto, took place from July 11–15, 2016. There were over 350 participants. Program highlights included the IMS Wald Lectures (Sara van de Geer), Rietz Lecture (Bin Yu), Schramm Lecture (Ofer Zeitouni) and five IMS Medallion Lectures…
We are pleased to confirm the results of the 2016 IMS Council elections. The President-Elect is Alison Etheridge. The five new Council members are Jean Bertoin, Songxi Chen, Elizaveta Levina, Simon Tavaré and Cun-Hui Zhang.
The new Council members and President-Elect will serve IMS for three years, starting officially at…