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Peter Bickel writes:
Of the nine National Medals of Science awarded by President Obama this year, three were in what I view, ecumenically, as the mathematical, information and data sciences. The medals are awarded to David Blackwell, posthumously, to Alexandre Chorin and to Thomas Kailath. Of these, David Blackwell’s is…
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Several IMS core and co-sponsored journals have new editors, whose three-year terms start January 1, 2015.
Maria Eulalia Vares will be the new editor of the Annals of Probability, taking over from Chris Burdzy.
The co-sponsored publications Electronic Communications in Probability (ECP) and the Electronic Journal of Probability (EJP)…
Members of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) are pleased to announce the 2014 awards, which were presented to the winners at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, by COPSS Chair Jane Pendergast.
The winner of the Presidents’ Award is Martin J. Wainwright of the University of…
The Fields Medals are the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union. Among this year’s four recipients is IMS member Martin Hairer (University of Warwick, UK), who delivered a Medallion lecture at the IMS annual meeting in Sydney in July.
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