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September 4, 2014
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…
Marcia Gumpertz and Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver investigated the status of female faculty members in Statistics and Biostatistics departments across the US. Marcia reports on their findings:
In Fall 2013 we conducted a small survey to learn about the demographic distributions of faculty in US departments of Statistics and Biostatistics. Twenty-nine of…
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…
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…
