Meetings
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…
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…
If you’re attending JSM in Chicago, come and meet other early-career researchers at the IMS New Researchers Group Mixer. It’s on Monday, August 1, 2016 from 6:30–8:00 pm in the Joliet Room in the Hilton. See you there!…
Registration is now open for the 9th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, to be hosted by the Fields Institute in Toronto, from July 11–15, 2016. IMS members benefit from reduced registration rates, and if you register before the early-bird deadline, June 1, you’ll save $100. We recommend that you…
Two free workshops at JSM are designed for new researchers to develop capabilities for research publication. The Writing Workshop continues the successful series of workshops where each participant receives individual mentoring by an experienced journal editor. New this year, the Review & Edit Workshop will be offered by a team…