IMS news
We are pleased to introduce the candidates who are standing for election to the IMS Council in 2015. This year there is one candidate for President-Elect, and 10 candidates for five places on Council.
The President-Elect candidate is Jon Wellner. The Council candidates are, in alphabetical order: Rami Atar,…
These two book series are published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of IMS. The volumes currently available are:
IMS Textbooks
Probability on Graphs. Geoffrey Grimmett
Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing. Simo Särkkä
Stochastic Networks. Frank Kelly and Elena Yudovina
The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences.…
Two new books in the IMS Textbooks series have been published. They are: The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences by Dan Romik (IMS member price with 40% discount is USD 59.40 for the hardback [non-member price USD 99.00] or USD 23.99 paperback [USD 39.99]); and Noise Sensitivity of Boolean …
We printed Bin Yu’s IMS Presidential Address in the October/November issue (in PDF format here). Bin reprised her talk at the New Researchers’ Conference, where it was filmed: you can watch the video here. The accompanying slides are at Bin’s website.…
Erwin Bolthausen became IMS President in July (he is pictured below, center, with Past-President Bin Yu, left, and President-Elect Richard Davis, right). Erwin shares his thoughts on the future of the institute:
The IMS is extremely successful as a scientific society, mainly as a scientific publisher, and also with its…
