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July 14, 2017
We are delighted to introduce the newest members of IMS Council. The next President-Elect is Xiao-Li Meng, and the six new members of Council are: Mathias Drton, Peter Hoff, Greg Lawler, Antonietta Mira, Axel Munk and Byeong Park. All of these will serve a three-year term starting in August, apart…
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Regina Nuzzo, one of our new Contributing Editors, has a PhD in statistics and is also a graduate of the Science Communication program at University of California–Santa Cruz. Her work as a part-time freelancer over the past 12 years has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, …
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2018 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.
The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for…
On May 18, thirty professional science societies in the USA, including IMS, ASA, CBMS, INFORMS and SIAM, signed a letter to the US Department of State, responding to the new guidelines for visa applicants. The letter expressed concern that the requirement of supplemental information would have a negative effect on…