Maurice Bertram Priestley, Professor emeritus of the University of Manchester, UK, was an outstanding, influential and highly respected figure in the field of time series analysis. His book on Spectral Analysis and Time Series, first published in 1982 and reprinted several times, has become a standard reference on the…

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Wenbo V. Li, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, died suddenly of heart failure on January 26, 2013, near his home in Newark, Delaware. He was 49 years old. Wenbo Li was born on October 27, 1963 in Harbin, China. After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in applied…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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