News
October 3, 2012
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. The purpose of the AWM is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
Perhaps it says something about human psychology that if a theoretical model for some problem makes predictions — better yet, sensational or bizarre predictions — which later come out to be true, then we take the model more seriously. But should we? After all, other…
Gareth Roberts writes:
In 2005, the Engineering and Physical Research Council of the UK and the University of Warwick jointly funded the establishment of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) to be housed within the Department of Statistics at Warwick. External funding for the grant was approximately £4.1M.…
Bhramar Mukherjee, Treasurer/Secretary of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, presents her profile of, and interview with, the winner of the Presidents’ Awards, Sam Kou.
Congratulations to Samuel Kou, Harvard University, the 2012 COPSS Presidents’ Award winner! The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annually presents awards to…
We present reports from three IMS co-sponsored meetings that took place over the summer months:
The 14th IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
Ery Arias-Castro reports:
The meeting took place at the University of California, San Diego, over three days (July 26–28) packed with talks and posters…