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May 15, 2014
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). Deadline June 15, 2014. The names and affiliations of …
Jason Schweinsberg reports:
The Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP) is an annual meeting that has been held in North America every Spring since 1981, when the first meeting was organized by Kai Lai Chung, Erhan Çinlar, and Ron Getoor. The 2014 SSP (http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jschwein/ssp2014.html) was held at the University of California…
Meet this year’s 18 winners of the IMS Travel Awards. The awards fund travel to present a paper/poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html
Jinyuan Chang, University of Melbourne
Haeran Cho, University of Bristol
Alexander Drewitz,…
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Irene M. Gamba to deliver the prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 7–11, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. Meeting details are at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an14/…
The StatProb project (http://statprob.com/) is aimed at producing a freely accessible web encyclopedia concerning all matters statistical and probabilistic. It started in 2010 and is sponsored by ten scientific societies including IMS, Bernoulli and ISI. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it fell into abeyance and is no longer being developed. After…