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January 10, 2013
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory. This prize will be awarded every other year, beginning in 2014. The purpose of the award is to highlight exceptional research in some area of algebra by a woman…
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established the AWM-Sadosky Prize in Analysis. This prize will be awarded every other year, beginning in 2014. The purpose of the award is to highlight exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in her career. The field will…
The American Statistical Association (ASA) and more than 1,400 organizations in 111 countries are combining energies in 2013 to promote the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013), a worldwide initiative that will highlight the contributions of the statistics field to finding solutions to global challenges.
The goals of this awareness campaign…
December 19, 2012
IMS President Hans Künsch writes:
2013 is a special year for IMS since we celebrate not only the International Year of Statistics, but also the special year for Mathematics of Planet Earth. This gives us unique opportunities to promote the importance of our fields to other scientific communities, to decision…
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…