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We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM in August about assessing our professional works.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is asking for comments on the possibility…
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34.
Each year the Lectureship is awarded to a promising biostatistical scientist who has made contributions to collaborative or methodologic research in the…
The 2011 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Scott Sheffield of M.I.T. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley, California, on Friday March 23, 2012.
Scott Sheffield received his PhD in 2003, advised by Amir…
Cornell Library digitizes historic collection of Eugene Dynkin interviews
Cornell University Library has acquired a collection of interviews of mathematicians conducted over many years by Eugene Dynkin, Cornell’s Emeritus A. R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics.
Dynkin worked with the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) and Digital Scholarship…
Competition for an Open Source Exhibition of Virtual Models
The IMS is a partner in the following competition as part of the world initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013). The proposed exhibition will have a virtual part as well as instructions to realize material parts. Examples of modules or…