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November 16, 2021
Nicole Lazar introduces the IMS Committee on Equality and Diversity, which she chairs:
Around a year and a half ago, in summer 2020, then-IMS President Regina Liu convened a new Committee on Equality and Diversity. The charge of the Committee, broadly speaking, was to serve as a sounding-board and focal…
These videos are freely available at https://www.youtube.com/c/instituteofmathematicalstatistics/videos. Here’s the list so far.
[IMS ML = IMS Medallion Lecture]
BS/IMS Schramm Lecture Balloons in Space(s) – Omer Angel
IMS Wald Lectures I: Random Walks and Fractal Graphs; II: Low Dimensional Random Fractals; and III: Higher Dimensional Spaces – Martin…
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The IMS Blackwell Lecture Fund is an endowment fund used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose…
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Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award is presented annually to a young* member of one of the participating societies of…
Takis Tackles
IMS Contributing Editor Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
Pandemics, we learn by studying a bit of history, have been game changers. For example, H.G. Wells wrote in A Short History of the World in 1922:
“In the second century A.D. a great misfortune came upon the Roman and Chinese…