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Roderick Little to deliver Fisher Lecture: “In Praise of Simplicity, Not Mathematistry! Ten Simple, Powerful Ideas for the Statistical Scientist”
John D. Kalbfleisch, and Ross L. Prentice, Chair of the 2012 Fisher Lecture Committee, write:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has named Roderick J. A. Little as…
AWM Humphreys Award
Deadline: April 30, 2012
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established a prize in memory of M. Gweneth Humphreys to recognize outstanding mentorship activities. This prize will be awarded annually to a mathematics teacher (female or male) who has encouraged female undergraduate…
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2012 Mortimer Spiegelman Award honoring a statistician, 40 years of age or younger, who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
The award was established in 1970 and is presented annually at…
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) has teamed up with the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) and several institutes in India (CMI, IISc,ISI, IMSC) to form the Virtual Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (VI-MSS). The Virtual Institute will sponsor joint workshops, research visitors…
The 11th biennial Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-11) has elected Professor Ali S. Hadi of The American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt as the new President of the Islamic Counties Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). He became the President-elect in December 2009. He takes over the role of…