July 31 – August 2, 2014,  Harvard University Cambridge, MA The 16th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and other…

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During the 17th edition of the Brazilian School of Probability, the organizers have announced their wish of having a special volume related to this meeting. We can now make its official announcement and call for papers. A few words about the volume and its relation to the school: The XVII…

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New IMS Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: We are pleased to announce the team of Contributing Editors (CEs) who will be writing and soliciting articles for the IMS Bulletin over the next three years. They are Robert Adler, Peter Bickel, Stéphane Boucheron, David Hand, Vlada Limic, Xiao-Li Meng, Dimitris Politis,…

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Featuring news about Lars Peter Hansen, Jeffrey Steif, Alison Etheridge, Jianqing Fan, Xiao-Li Meng, Bin Yu, David Madigan, Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga and Juan Romo

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Our new Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College, London) writes his first column, on the subject of Big Data: Surely nobody who has the slightest awareness of what’s going on in the world can be unaware of the phrase ‘big data’. Almost every day the newspapers and television make…

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