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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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Iowa State student team wins international data mining competition
A team of Iowa State University graduate students topped 98 other universities from 28 countries to capture first place in the 15th annual Data Mining Cup. Prudsys AG, a leading European data mining company, sponsors the intelligent-data analysis competition for universities.…
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