Featuring news about Terry Speed, Bob Blumenthal and David Findley Terry Speed receives Australia’s Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation Terry Speed, who is well-known to readers of the IMS Bulletin, is a world leader in bioinformatics. He has been recognized for his pioneering work by the awarding of…

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Dozens of universities, research institutes, foundations, and scientific societies, including the IMS, have joined forces to celebrate 2013 as a special year for the Mathematics of Planet Earth (see Hans Künsch’s cover article). The Annals of Applied Statistics has been publishing cutting edge research in this area for five years,…

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Several IMS core and co-sponsored publications have new editors, whose three-year terms start January 1, 2013. Timo Seppäläinen is the new editor of the Annals of Applied Probability, taking over from Andrew Barbour. Stephen Fienberg is now Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics, taking the reins from…

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The IMS has a Facebook page: find us at https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI. Give us a “like” if you like!…

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Last year the Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Sastry Pantula, proposed changing the division’s name to the Division of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. This led to an intense discussion in the community. IMS also collected opinions of members which…

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