News
August 29, 2013
Hans R. Künsch, ETH Zurich, completed his term as IMS President at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal. He delivered this Presidential Address:
This year we are celebrating the anniversary of a book published 300 years ago, and on this occasion we have declared 2013 to be the International Year…
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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