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December 16, 2017
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…
We announce the new editors of three of our co-sponsored journals.
Andreas Kyprianou will take over as editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability (from January 1, 2018 for three years), replacing Brian Rider. Giambattista Giacomin becomes the editor of Electronic Communications in Probability, replacing Sandrine Péché. Ben Hambly…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released two new publications: Guidelines on Measuring Trust and Guidelines on Measuring the Quality of the Work Environment.
Trust, at the interpersonal and institutional level, is a key ingredient of growth, societal well-being and governance. To improve existing measures of trust,…
Introducing Takis Konstantopoulos, one of our Contributing Editors.
Takis did his basic studies at NTUA in Greece where he learned a lot about many subjects (“from complex analysis to quantum mechanics, signal processing, control…”) and his MSc (on Lévy’s Brownian motion) and PhD (in stochastic networks) at UC Berkeley.…