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July 1, 2016
Two Open Access Probability Journals Join Project Euclid
We are excited to announce that both the Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability are now available in Project Euclid. Co-published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, these titles join other high-quality publications in probability…
Contributing Editor Vlada Limic has been thinking about ways in which the peer review process could be improved. She writes:
A young postdoc enters a renowned senior professor’s office one day. The master is sighing over a printout of an article, and finally says 1: “I have read this…
Jean Opsomer, IMS Treasurer, writes:
This report details membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2015. The 2015 fiscal year end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2016, after the auditors have completed the annual process.
To read the complete report as a PDF, published…
May 25, 2016
Registration is now open for the 9th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, to be hosted by the Fields Institute in Toronto, from July 11–15, 2016. IMS members benefit from reduced registration rates, and if you register before the early-bird deadline, June 1, you’ll save $100. We recommend that you…
The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the 2016 election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are five IMS Fellows. We congratulate:
• Steven N. Evans, professor of statistics and…