Dr. Kathryn Roeder, Professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences, is the recipient of the Twelfth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. She will accept the award at the University of…

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The result are in! Your new IMS officials are: President Elect Erwin Bolthausen Council For a 3 year termRichard DavisRick DurrettSteffen LauritzenSusan MurphyJane-Ling Wang For a 2 year termOfer Zeitouni ——————Both amendments passed.  To view the elected member profiles please visit https://www.imstat.org/elections/elected.htm…

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The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS invites nominations for its 2013 Best Publication Award. The Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to Applied Probability, consists of a plaque and $1000. It will be presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (6-9 October 2013). Nominations are being solicited until 1 August 2013.…

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David L. Donoho was named the 2013 Shaw Prize Laureate in the Mathematical Sciences for his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets. …

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