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Shahjahan Khan from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Toowoomba, Australia, recently organized this meeting: The School of Agricultural, Computational, and Environmental Sciences; and Division of Research and Innovation of the USQ hosted a workshop on “Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications” in collaboration with the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. The…

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If housing reservations are any indication, the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle (August 8–13, 2015) may be the biggest JSM yet. All the reserved rooms sold out within 24 hours! More have been added, but if you haven’t booked your accommodation yet, don’t delay: www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2015/housing.cfm…

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Takashi Kumagai is Chair of the Selection Committee for the International Mathematical Union Itô Travel Awards. He writes: The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is supporting via the IMU Itô fund, the IMU Itô Travel Awards to invite young mathematicians to attend the Symposium on Stochastic Analysis, which is taking…

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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Han received his PhD in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. The IMS Travel…

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17th IMS New Researchers Conference August 6–8, 2015 University of Washington, Seattle, WA The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google, and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. The…

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