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July 1, 2014
8th International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2015: Call for Minisymposia
Beijing, China
August 10–14, 2015
This congress is the main activity of the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), held every four years. In 2015 it will be in Beijing from August 10–14. IMS joined ICIAM…
Jean Opsomer, IMS Treasurer, reports:
During the final two months of last year, IMS conducted a brief survey of its membership. The goal of the survey was to assess the demographic characteristics of the membership, something that had not been previously done. The results, described below, provide the first ever…
A Folk Festival: The 7th China R Conference (May 24-25, Beijing)
Xizhi Wu, Professor of statistics, Renmin University of China, reports on the latest conference in a series he has helped to organize:
More than 1800 enthusiastic participants (including those unregistered) of various data-related disciplines, from more than 600 organizations…
Planning a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research
Jim Pitman and Clifford Lynch were members of the Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences, which wrote the report discussed here. Other members were Ingrid Daubechies, Kathleen Carley, Timothy Cole, Judith Klavans, Yann LeCun, Michael Lesk, Peter…
Jean Opsomer writes:
In January 2014, Statistics Without Borders (SWB) emailed its members about a request from the Rwanda Biomedical Center. There was a need for training in survey data analysis, and the R programming language. The classes would be in English, and the students would have some statistics background.…