News
July 1, 2014
Jean Opsomer writes:
In January 2014, Statistics Without Borders (SWB) emailed its members about a request from the Rwanda Biomedical Center. There was a need for training in survey data analysis, and the R programming language. The classes would be in English, and the students would have some statistics background.…
Terry Speed is thinking about how “ithers” see us, and what we can do to make ourselves more appealing…
June 12, 2014
President Elect
Richard Davis
Council
For a 3 year termPeter BühlmannFlorentina BuneaGeoffrey Grimmett Aad van der VaartNaisyin Wang
For a 2 year termJonathan Taylor
Click here to view the elected member profiles.…
June 3, 2014
Beginning this year, the IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures.
The following lectures are available for nomination in 2014.
2016 Wald Lecturer 2016 Rietz Lecturer 2017 Medallion Lecturers
Nomination submission procedure:
https://www.imstat.org/awards/lectures/nominations.htm
Deadline for nominations is October 1.…
May 15, 2014
The United States National Academy of Sciences announced on April 29, 2014, the election of 84 new members, and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
[Left-right: Bin Yu, Emery Brown, Emmanuel Candès]
Among those elected is IMS…
