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June 27, 2018
The International Council for Science (ICSU) is partnering with 11 scientific groups, including the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), to examine and reduce the gap between men and women in mathematical, computing, and natural sciences.
A crucial component of this Gender…
As previously announced, IMS is seeking contributions to the IMS Peter Hall Early Career Prize fund. If you would like to donate in memory of Peter, there are three ways:
1. By credit card via the IMS website: https://secure.imstat.org/secure/orders/donations.asp
2. By US dollar check, made payable to “IMS –…
The IMS has 10 funds that are open to contributions, detailed below. We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for contributing to the IMS. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit http://www.imstat.org/contribute-to-the-ims/.
Blackwell Lecture Fund
The Blackwell Lecture Fund is used to support…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
BFF again? Yes, and this time it is for Best Friends Forever, not another Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist workshop – for that you need to wait until BFF6. [For BFF# history, see https://imstat.org/2017/05/xl-files-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-bff4ever/.] But what on Earth is BGF? Best Goal Forever (FIFA time)? Best…
George Roussas writes in memory of his colleague:
Joining in the celebration of the life and achievements of PK Bhattacharya [see his obituary], I wish to scribe a few words based on reminiscences from our lives on campus of UC-Davis.
PK was present almost from the establishment of Statistics…