News
November 18, 2012
15th IMS New Researchers Conference,
jointly sponsored by the IMS and the SSC
August 1–3, 2013 at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada
The 15th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and jointly sponsored…
Featuring news items about S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, and Dipak Dey. .
Swedish University gives Honorary Doctorate to Jammalamadaka
Professor S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, who is an ISI Member and Fellow of the ASA and IMS, has…
The Blackwell Lecture Fund will be used to support a lecture in honor of David Blackwell. The purpose of this lecture is to honor Blackwell, to keep his name alive and to inspire young people to emulate his achievements. The first lecture is expected to be presented in 2014.
Donations…
Thierry Bodineau and Lorenzo Zambotti are Editors of the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré. They write:
Every two years, the Probability and Statistics section of the Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (AIHP) awards two prizes, of $1,500 each, for the best papers published in the journal during those…
Rick’s Ramblings is Going Online
Rick Durrett bids us farewell—in this publication, at least. He wrote [in the print version, December 2012 issue]:
My ideas for columns come at random times, which in many cases does not mesh well with the Bulletin publication schedule. In addition, an online…