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May 15, 2014
IMS Council has approved the nomination of Edward Waymire for the 2014 Carver Medal as recommended by the Committee to Select the Carver Award. The citation will read: “To Ed Waymire, for manifold contributions to the IMS in many capacities and in particular for exceptional service to the Annals of…
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Program update now available
The organizers of the IMS Annual Meeting and Australian Statistical Conference have released an updated copy of the program. You can view the detailed program here. Please note that some speaker sessions are still pending confirmation and the program is still subject to change.
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Contributing Editor Vlada Limic continues with a theme she introduced in the March 2014 Bulletin issue:
In my first column I announced my intention to disclose my frustration with a common scientific meeting type called the workshop. My fifteen-plus years of post-graduate research activity should provide me with enough experience…
Photo courtesy of Rowan Lindley
Dennis Lindley, a key figure in the modern Bayesian school of statistics, died on 14 December 2013 at the age of 90. The pervasive and growing influence of Bayesian methodology on data analysis and decision making might not have happened without the advocacy and persistence…
