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August 29, 2013
Association for Women in Mathematics offers Travel Grants
The next deadline for the AWM/NSF Travel Grant is October 1, 2013. The Association for Women in Mathematics travel program supports these opportunities for women:
1. Travel grants in mathematics, for women mathematicians attending mathematics conferences.
2. Travel grants for women mathematicians…
August 28, 2013
Earlier this year, we collected input from IMS members for a subcommittee to examine the current structure of support for the statistical sciences within the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and to provide recommendations for NSF to consider.
An update of the committee work is now available from the website…
Future of the Statistical Sciences Workshop
http://www.statistics2013.org/introduction-to-the-future-of-statistical-sciences-workshop/
One of the primary goals of the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) is to promote creativity and development in the sciences of probability and statistics. To that end, the six societies that founded Statistics2013—the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute of Mathematical…
The Joint Statistical Meetings took place in Montreal, Canada, in August 2013. The September issue of the IMS Bulletin has lots of photos from the meeting, which you can download Bulletin42_6.
Here’s a quick peek:
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Cambridge University Press, in conjunction with the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, publishes IMS Textbooks. These are compact books that give introductory accounts of topics from statistics or probability of current interest, suitable for advanced courses at master’s level, for doctoral students and for individual study. They are shorter than a…