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A Folk Festival: The 7th China R Conference (May 24-25, Beijing) Xizhi Wu, Professor of statistics, Renmin University of China, reports on the latest conference in a series he has helped to organize: More than 1800 enthusiastic participants (including those unregistered) of various data-related disciplines, from more than 600 organizations…

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Program update now available The organizers of the IMS Annual Meeting and Australian Statistical Conference have released an updated copy of the program. You can view the detailed program here. Please note that some speaker sessions are still pending confirmation and the program is still subject to change. ASC

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Jason Schweinsberg reports: The Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP) is an annual meeting that has been held in North America every Spring since 1981, when the first meeting was organized by Kai Lai Chung, Erhan Çinlar, and Ron Getoor. The 2014 SSP (http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/ssp2014.html) was held at the University of California…

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Runze Li writes: The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2013 Rao Prize Conference on October 5, 2013 to honor the 2013 Rao Prize winner Herman Chernoff, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of Statistics at Harvard University, and the 2013 P. R.…

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The 16th 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), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. This year the conference is hosted by the Department…

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