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The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics) will be held on July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. Scheduled every four years, it is jointly organized by IMS and the Bernoulli Society. This meeting is a major worldwide event for statistics and probability, covering all its branches including theoretical, methodological,…

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The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be given annually and will be featured at meetings (co)-sponsored by the IMS or the Bernoulli Society with a strong attendance…

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Kavita Ramanan reports: The 16th Applied Probability Conference, sponsored by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS and co-sponsored by the IMS, was held from July 6–8, 2011, on the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. This three-day conference is part of a series of biannual…

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July 26–28, 2012 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA http://math.ucsd.edu/~nrc2012/ The Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability is an annual conference organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The 14th edition will be held on July 26–28, 2012, at the University…

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I can’t think of a better combination than randomness and biology (unless it is a chilled Sancerre accompanying grilled swordfish with a side of steamed asparagus). The title for this ramble is the topic for the year of activities at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University. Unfortunately, you…

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