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September 30, 2019
The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is a worldwide organisation for professional applied mathematics societies—including IMS—and for other societies with a significant interest in industrial or applied mathematics. At the ICIAM Congress in Valencia in July, discussions took place at the meeting of presidents and the ICIAM…
Nominations are invited for the following awards.
Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation
In order to promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta examines the sometimes unpleasant reasons behind the widely varying ratios of male and female populations around the world, and considers the role of statistics in detecting patterns:
It was observed at least 300 years ago that, for reasons that are not fully understood, the biology of…
David J. Hand, Imperial College London, is one of our Contributing Editors. He writes about the role statistics can play in detecting and combating fraud:
I do not need to remind the readers of the IMS Bulletin that the discipline of statistics is ubiquitous, being applied in all walks of…