Meetings
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…
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…
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,…