News
December 17, 2017
A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published.
You get a summary in pdf-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_31_4.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published or…
December 16, 2017
The US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 70 regular members and 10 international members. Among them is Nicholas Patrick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 396 of its members for 2017 in recognition of their contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.
In the AAAS Section on Statistics were five IMS members and Fellows.…
The International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) takes place August 1–9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (see http://www.icm2018.org/). The organizing committee have announced 21 plenary lectures, among which are two by IMS Fellows, Gregory Lawler and Michael I. Jordan (you can read the complete list here). The remaining…
On October 26, Ball State University Statistics Group celebrated the 2017 United Nations World Statistics Day. The Colloquium Speaker was Dr. Mir Masoom Ali, the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics Emeritus, who founded the Statistics program at Ball State in 1971. He talked about the history of…