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May 16, 2013
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
It is the mark of an instructed mind, said Aristotle, not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. Delicate and classy, still, the nature of mathematics is such that quantities of intrinsic importance often cannot be evaluated in a simple…
Jean Opsomer highlights the rise in dubious journals and conferences, and asks whether we—particularly new researchers—should be concerned:
Many of us regularly receive email invitations to submit articles to journals we have never heard of, to join editorial boards for those same journals (often in the same email!), or to…
Terry Speed is mad as hell that we are still struggling for gender equity after all these years. Are you doing something about it?
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2012, and reviews the fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012) financial statements. You can read the report in the June/July 2013 issue, or download the PDF separately here.…
May 1, 2013
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Analyzing Animal Vocal Communication Sequences,” to be held October 21-23, 2013, at NIMBioS.
The aim of this workshop is to bridge the gap between mathematical and biological researchers with an…