Meetings
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. The next IMS Annual Meeting is at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics (July 11–15, 2016, hosted by the Fields Institute…

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The 2015 Schramm Lecture at the 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting in Oxford, UK, in July, was presented by Michel Ledoux, University of Toulouse. Michel’s lecture was on “Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities.” This year’s Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference welcomed over 400…

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Submit your abstract by October 15, 2015, for the 2016 ENAR Spring Meeting (March 6–9, 2016, in Austin, Texas). October 15 is also the submission deadline for the Distinguished Student Paper Awards. The ENAR scientific program will cover topics of interest to researchers and practitioners, such as data science (big…

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Seattle is known for Starbucks and software… and now also for statisticians, as over 6,800 people attended the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings, held at the Washington State Convention Center from August 8–13, 2015. IMS invited program co-chairs Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster, said of their involvement, “The experience as IMS…

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The September 2015 issue of the IMS Bulletin has photos of some of the highlights of the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle. Check it out!…

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