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August 31, 2021
The 2022 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in London, UK, June 27-30, 2022. We invite proposals for invited sessions in probability and statistics (15 slots in each). Your invited session needs a session title and short description (maximum 300 characters), your details as session organiser, plus details of the…
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation.
The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd,…
Paul Chase, the journals operations manager for Penn Press Journals, writes:
We are excited to announce that Observational Studies has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Press to publish the journal twice per year. We will continue to provide the same level of outstanding scholarship and analysis of the field,…
Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, continues her “Sound The Gong” column with a reflection on what lessons we can, and should learn, from the experiences of teaching and learning online.
Prior to March 2020, taking classes towards a college or graduate degree remotely was anything but…
Lai Kow Chan, an IMS Fellow with expertise in statistical quality control and a visionary academic leader, died in Hong Kong on December 23, 2020, aged 80.
Lai was born in Hong Kong on November 5, 1940. His first university degree was from Hong Kong Baptist College in 1962, after…