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September 4, 2014
Contributing Editor Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He is interested in building better tools for data science. His work includes R packages for data analysis (ggplot2, plyr, reshape2); packages that make R less frustrating (lubridate for dates, stringr for strings,…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). Deadline EXTENDED to November 1, 2014. The names and …
Robert Adler continues his series of articles on Topology, Probability and Statistics:
In my previous column (in the March 2014 issue) I introduced TOPOS as an acronym for Topology, Probability and Statistics, and promised three more columns to convince you that this combination is, today, producing elegant mathematics, powerful…
Statistics and Science: A Report of the London Workshop on the Future of the Statistical Sciences (http://bit.ly/londonreport) is the product of a high-level meeting in London last November attended by 100 prominent statisticians from around the world. This invitation-only summit was the capstone event of the International Year of Statistics,…
In 2015 the named and medallion lectures will be given as follows:
At ENAR (Miami, March 15–18, 2015): Medallion lecture: Tilmann Gneiting
At APS (Istanbul, July 5–8, 2015): Medallion lecture: Kavita Ramanan
At SPA 2015 (Oxford, July 13–17, 2015): Schramm lecture: Michel Ledoux and two Medallion lectures: Scott Sheffield and…