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October 3, 2012
This “Piled Higher and Deeper” comic strip by Jorge Cham seems apposite:
“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham: www.phdcomics.com
No-one wants to be seen as a quitter. And none of us want to advise a student, colleague or friend to quit doing something in which they have invested heavily.…
September 28, 2012
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has established the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis to highlight exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in her career. The prize will be awarded every other year with the first prize presented at the AWM Reception at…
The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor or an equivalent position in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides a fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.…
September 3, 2012
The September 2012 Bulletin (Volume 41, issue 6) is now online.Contents include:
World Congress reviewedMembers’ News: Howell Tong, Mir Masoom Ali, Jianqing Fan, Ker-Chau Li,Ray Carroll, Nancy Flournoy, Fritz Scheuren, Marvin Zelen, WilliamMeeker, Jim Landwehr, Linda YoungWorld Congress photosIMS Presidential AddressWorld Congress: a view from NigeriaPresident’s Welcome: Hans KünschAward nominationsCOPSS…
September 1, 2012
Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çağlar were co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee for the Eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics, location of the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting. They reflect on the successes of the meeting:
This summer, the eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held in…