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February 15, 2015
The biennial 13th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-13) was held at the IPB International Convention Centre in Bogor, Indonesia during 18-21 December 2014. The conference was jointly organised by Bogor Agricultural University (BAU) and Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). The theme of the conference was ‘Statistics…
A career in research requires, above all else, enough motivation—and a real passion for the subject—argues Terry Speed.
February 9, 2015
The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle, August 6-8, 2015 (just before JSM). The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in probability and statistics. If you received a PhD in or after 2010, or expect…
December 16, 2014
Peter Bickel received a Doctor honoris causa from ETH Zurich on November 22, 2014. The translation (from German) of the laudatio reads “…for fundamental contributions in semiparametric, robust and high-dimensional statistics, and for seminal influence in mathematical statistics and its applications.” (The full text, in German, is at https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/Dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf)
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We are saddened to bring news that five of our community have passed away recently. We do not yet have full details, but obituaries will appear for these colleagues in due course.
Steven F. Arnold, Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, passed away December 6. He was born in…