In March 2013 the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) approved the establishment of an Advisory Group for Women in Mathematics, charged with creating and overseeing a section of the IMU website entitled Women in Mathematics (WiM). Opportunities for women vary widely from country to country and a…

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Front row, from left–right: Jinyuan Chang, Bin Yu (then IMS President), Wenxin Zhou. Middle row l–r: Susan Wei, Jiangyan Wang. Back row l–r: Takashi Owada, Bin Guo, Takumi Saegusa. Meet the seven IMS Travel Award winners who attended the IMS awards session in Sydney (pictured with Bin Yu, center). This…

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2014 IISA Conference recognizes young researchers and PhD students Subir Ghosh, University of California, Riverside, reports: The International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference on Research Innovations in Statistics for Health, Education, Technology, and Society, was held July 11–13, 2014 at the Riverside Convention Center, in Riverside, California. Plenary speakers were…

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We are delighted to announce that IMS member Martin Hairer is one of the recipients of the highly prestigious Fields Medals this year. http://www.icm2014.org/en/awards/prizes/f3 Martin Hairer’s Fields Medal was “for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory…

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Congratulations to the IMS Fellows for 2014! Each Fellow will be honored at the IMS Presidential Address during the IMS-ASC meeting in Sydney. You can view the list of Awardees here.…

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