Meetings
Each year the IMS awards funds to young researchers to travel to present a paper or poster at the IMS annual meeting. Following this year’s World Congress in Istanbul, we asked the latest recipients what they thought of the meeting, the location and the IMS.
Karthik Bharath enjoyed the meeting:…
Gareth Roberts writes:
In 2005, the Engineering and Physical Research Council of the UK and the University of Warwick jointly funded the establishment of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) to be housed within the Department of Statistics at Warwick. External funding for the grant was approximately £4.1M.…
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…