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Juan C. Meza is Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the US National Science Foundation. IMS President Xiao-Li Meng invited him to share some opportunities to reach out to Computer Science and Math or explore new partnerships with the domain sciences.
These are exciting times in mathematics…
Interview: Dietrich Stoyan
Elja Arjas kindly agreed to interview Dietrich Stoyan, a renowned German probabilist, statistician, and an IMS Fellow, who has written an unusual book about his rather unusual life.
Dietrich was born in 1940, at the time when WWII was raging in Europe. He lost his father in…
Nicholas Horton (Amherst College) was a co-author of the recent National Academies consensus study report that is available for free download from https://nas.edu/envisioningds. He writes:
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of data science, revolutionizing industry and science. The NSF-funded National Academies consensus report entitled Undergraduate Data Science: …
The International Council for Science (ICSU) is partnering with 11 scientific groups, including the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), to examine and reduce the gap between men and women in mathematical, computing, and natural sciences.
A crucial component of this Gender…
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, has been awarded the 2017 Infosys Science Foundation prize and the 2017 TWAS prize in engineering sciences for the impact of her work in the field of computer and engineering sciences.
The Infosys award is given annually to recognize the best…