The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) announces the two programs for the 2013–14 year will be Computational Methods in Social Science, and Low-Dimensional Structure in High-Dimensional Systems. The announcement was made by Richard Smith, Director of SAMSI. Computational Methods in Social Science The social sciences have, as many…

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Bhramar Mukherjee is JSM Program Chair for the 2013 meeting in Montreal. She writes:   The 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held in Montreal, Canada. Standing in the province of Québec, Montreal offers a distinct English/French flavor and is very much a mixture of the old and the new.…

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Invited by the Center for Statistical Science at Peking University, Professor Peter Hall delivered a short course on “Methodology and Theory for the Bootstrap” from March 15th to 24th, 2012. The short course comprised 16 lectures, and attracted more than 100 graduate students and faculty members from schools across China,…

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Brian Rider is chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, to be held from July 29 to August 2, 2013, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. If you are thinking of attending the meeting, Brian advises you to book your accommodation as…

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Thanks to a generous bequest from the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (this year, at the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9–14). This…

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