News
December 11, 2014
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. The next IMS Annual Meeting is at JSM in Seattle, WA, USA, August 8-13, 2015 [http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2015/].
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of…
November 18, 2014
Erwin Bolthausen became IMS President in July (he is pictured below, center, with Past-President Bin Yu, left, and President-Elect Richard Davis, right). Erwin shares his thoughts on the future of the institute:
The IMS is extremely successful as a scientific society, mainly as a scientific publisher, and also with its…
Featuring news about Trevor Hastie, David Anderson, Kathryn Chaloner; Raymond J. Carroll, Frank E. Harrell Jr., Arnab Maity, Christopher S. McMahan, Sastry G. Pantula, Madan L. Puri, and Joshua M. Tebbs
Sastry Pantula receives ASA Founders’ Award
The American Statistical Association (ASA) presented Sastry G. Pantula, Oregon State University, with its prestigious Founders Award, along with James Cochran and Christine Franklin, at the JSM in Boston in August 2014. The honor, presented annually to ASA members who have rendered distinguished and…
Robert Adler presents the third in his series of four articles on TOPOS, Topology, Probability and Statistics:
This month, I want to direct most of my words to my fellow probabilists, and, ultimately, to issue them a challenge. Accepting the challenge will, I am certain, benefit all of the three…