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October 2, 2015
Nomination deadline: October 15, 2015
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the Noether Lecture to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. Emmy Noether was one of the great…
Two surveys carried out in America highlight that being a statistician is a great career move.
A survey carried out by CareerCast.com reveals “The Best Jobs for Women in 2015.” Among those top 11 jobs is Statistician.
CareerCast reports that the annual median wage for statisticians (in the US) is…
This is an edited volume of 27 chapters on a broad range of topics relating to leadership, with special emphasis on women. With the growth of data science in almost every field of application, statisticians need to take a leadership role.
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto, is the Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. She writes:
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, CANSSI (Institut canadien des sciences statistiques, INCASS), www.canssi.ca, was established in 2012 by the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor Mary Thompson of the University of Waterloo served as…
Two IMS members have been signed to major ice hockey teams in the US — not as players, but as part of the growing number of statistical analysts in professional sports. Sam Ventura, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has been signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins as…