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May 17, 2020
Looking to stay up to date on developments in health care technology around the world? The American Statistical Association is sponsoring The Pod of Asclepius, a new podcast where data scientists, statisticians, engineers, and regulatory experts discuss the technical challenges in their healthcare domain. We have over 20 episodes…
The World of Probability becomes One…
Leif Döring and Andreas Kyprianou write:
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of big changes in many aspects caused by the COVID-19 virus and its consequences. Research, as a truly global activity, has also been affected severely. Conferences, schools, research visits…
May 13, 2020
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures.
The following lectures are available for nomination in 2020.
Information on all lectures can be found here: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/
2022 Neyman Lecturer
2022 Rietz Lecturer
2023 Medallion Lecturers
Deadline is October 1.
To submit a nomination,…
May 5, 2020
A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_34_2/bjps_34_2.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…
May 1, 2020
Congratulations to these IMS members who have been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
Gérard Ben Arous, professor of mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York City
Yoav Benjamini, The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv…