News
May 18, 2015
The Student Puzzle printed in the April/May IMS Bulletin is clearly proving difficult to crack. So, to encourage more entries, the deadline has now been extended until June 18, 2015. Good luck…!…
Takashi Kumagai is Chair of the Selection Committee for the International Mathematical Union Itô Travel Awards. He writes:
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is supporting via the IMU Itô fund, the IMU Itô Travel Awards to invite young mathematicians to attend the Symposium on Stochastic Analysis, which is taking…
We announce the class of new IMS Fellows for 2015, who will be presented at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at JSM in Seattle. Congratulations, Fellows!
Evarist Giné-Masdeu, known as Evarist Giné, last June at the conference in his honor in Cambridge, UK
Evarist Giné-Masdeu—or just Evarist Giné—passed away on March 13 in Hartford, CT. He was a significant contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular…
May 17, 2015
Grégory Miermont received his education at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris from 1998–2002. He defended his PhD thesis, which was supervised by Jean Bertoin, in 2003. He also spent a year in Berkeley, 2001–02, working under the supervision of David Aldous and Jim Pitman. Miermont held a CNRS researcher…
