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February 15, 2014
Robert Adler writes in the first of a new series of columns:
To pure mathematicians, a topos is a type of category that behaves like the category of sheaves on a topological space. (I’ll bet that this definition didn’t help many IMS members very much. It certainly doesn’t ‘do it’…
During the 17th edition of the Brazilian School of Probability (EBP), the organizers announced their wish to have a special volume of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics related to this meeting. They are now making an official announcement and call for papers.
A few words about the volume…
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. This year’s meeting is in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney, July 7–10.
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of the…
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 March 1, 2014.
The names and affiliations of …
Another of our new Contributing Editors is Vlada Limic, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. She introduces her new column series, Vlada’s Point:
Most of my contributions here will be devoted to topics in communication. More precisely, I am interested in criticizing several aspects of our scientific communication, and…
