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Hira L. Koul, President of the Indian Statistical Association, writes: The Indian Statistical Association was established in 1960 at Bombay (now Mumbai). The late Professor M.C. Chakrabarty, the founding Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Bombay, was its first Secretary and Prof. A. M. Kshirsagar was the first…
When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the face of American education in mathematics,” we naturally wanted to find out how statistics and probability will be represented…
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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…