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August 28, 2015
On June 11–12, 2015, the IMS-Microsoft Research workshop Foundations of Data Science brought together parallel communities of statisticians and machine learning researchers to discuss various problems that have both statistical and computational aspects. The organizers Jennifer Chayes from Microsoft Research, former IMS president Bin Yu from UC Berkeley Statistics Department,…
August 24, 2015
This a final call for high quality invited session proposals sponsored by the IMS for the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) to be held July 30 – August 4, 2016 in Chicago. Keep in mind that the selection of invited session proposals is a competitive process due to the limited…
July 14, 2015
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 IMS Council elections.
The President-Elect is Jon Wellner. The new Council members are, in alphabetical order: Andreas Buja, Gerda Claeskens, Nancy Heckman, Kavita Ramanan and Ming Yuan.
The new Council members and President-Elect will serve IMS for three years, starting…
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The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2015 Rao Prize Conference on May 14, 2015 to honor three prize recipients: the 2015 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize Recipient Sir David R. Cox, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College at University of Oxford; the 2015…