Meetings
We present reports from three IMS co-sponsored meetings that took place over the summer months:
The 14th IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
Ery Arias-Castro reports:
The meeting took place at the University of California, San Diego, over three days (July 26–28) packed with talks and posters…
Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çağlar were co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee for the Eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, location of the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting. They reflect on the successes of the meeting:
This summer, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held in…
Dr. Ezra Gayawan is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Redeemer’s University in Nigeria. In this article, he shares some of his personal experience of attending the World Congress in Probability and Statistics (and the pre-meeting immediately before it, for young researchers). He writes:
It was an…
Dan Nettleton, Laurence H. Baker Endowed Chair in Biological Statistics and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, co-organized this conference in May that was co-sponsored by the IMS. He writes:
The Conference on New Statistical Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Data was held on May 11,…
Nominations for IMU Awards in 2014
The President of the International Mathematical Union, Ingrid Daubechies, has written to the Adhering Organizations, asking them to submit nominations for the IMU awards listed below.
Fields Medals fields14-chair@mathunion.org
The Fields Medals are awarded every 4 years on the occasion of the International Congress…