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February 15, 2014
The 16th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. This year the conference is hosted by the Department…
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The University of Tampere (in Tampere, Finland) hosted two conferences in statistics (and related matrix theory) in 1987 and 1990. The videos of these conferences have now been published on the University’s YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqhVpoDMmrLlere4lqqEp26_MdboWUGv-
These videos were originally recorded on VHS tapes which were “found” two years ago during…
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…