During the 17th edition of the Brazilian School of Probability, the organizers have announced their wish of having a special volume related to this meeting. We can now make its official announcement and call for papers. A few words about the volume and its relation to the school: The XVII…

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New IMS Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: We are pleased to announce the team of Contributing Editors (CEs) who will be writing and soliciting articles for the IMS Bulletin over the next three years. They are Robert Adler, Peter Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Politis,…

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Featuring news about Lars Peter Hansen, Jeffrey Steif, Alison Etheridge, Jianqing Fan, Xiao-Li Meng, Bin Yu, David Madigan, Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga and Juan Romo

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Our new Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College, London) writes his first column, on the subject of Big Data: Surely nobody who has the slightest awareness of what’s going on in the world can be unaware of the phrase ‘big data’. Almost every day the newspapers and television make…

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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 annual meeting is in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney, July 7–10. The IMS will reimburse members 80% of…

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