Meetings
The biennial 13th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-13) was held at the IPB International Convention Centre in Bogor, Indonesia during 18-21 December 2014. The conference was jointly organised by Bogor Agricultural University (BAU) and Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). The theme of the conference was ‘Statistics…
Professor Shahjahan Khan is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of IMS. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society. He served as the President of ISOSS from 2005–2011. He reports on a statistics seminar at which he contributed:
The Bangladesh Academy of…
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a nonprofit organization that fosters high-impact cross-disciplinary and cross-sector research involving statistical sciences, held a workshop for its affiliates and others on October 17 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center in Washington, DC. More than 70 people attended the workshop, titled…
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. This year’s meeting is at JSM in Seattle, WA, USA, August 8–13, 2015.
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of the costs of…
Thilaksha Tharanganie, who is a PhD student in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, wrote to share her experiences from the Australian Statistical Conference in conjunction with the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting 2014.
In July 2014, I presented my PhD research work at the…
