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The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, (SAMSI) announces its 2014-2015 programs. SAMSI’s programs will integrate applied mathematicians and statisticians with other scientific disciplines to further research in bioinformatics and ecology. One program, Beyond Bioinformatics, Statistical and Mathematical Challenges, will look at the statistical and mathematical challenges arising in the…

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János Engländer reports: The 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications was held on the beautiful campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, from July 29 to August 2, 2013. There were 250 participants. The international scientific committee was chaired by Steve Lalley (Chicago), and the local organizers were…

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Johanna G. Nešlehová and Aarti Singh report on the 15th IMS New Researchers Conference, jointly sponsored by the IMS and the SSC: The 15th edition of the IMS New Researchers Conference took place at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) in Montréal, from August 1 to August 3, 2013. Because…

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Future of the Statistical Sciences Workshop http://www.statistics2013.org/introduction-to-the-future-of-statistical-sciences-workshop/ One of the primary goals of the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) is to promote creativity and development in the sciences of probability and statistics. To that end, the six societies that founded Statistics2013—the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute of Mathematical…

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The Joint Statistical Meetings took place in Montreal, Canada, in August 2013. The September issue of the IMS Bulletin has lots of photos from the meeting, which you can download Bulletin42_6. Here’s a quick peek:

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