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November 18, 2012
Web-based mentoring for students in statistics at Universities in developing countries
Would you like to mentor a PhD or masters student in a developing country from a distance, over the internet? Join us at http://statmentoring.nr.no.
Statistical communities, academic and governmental, are growing in many developing countries, and statisticians play key…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
A wonderful thing about tenure is that once I had it, I never had to control my irresistible urge to waste my time on the most useless of all things. The other day, a close friend said to me, “But I was almost right!”…
For many statisticians, working in theory is the same as working in practice. Terry Speed begs to disagree.
November 17, 2012
The December 2012 Bulletin (Volume 41, issue 8) is now online.Contents include:
New Researchers Conference
Members’ News: S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, Dipak De
Blackwell Lecture Fund
AIHP Prize Papers
Bulletin columnists
IMS awards: still time to nominate or apply
Mentoring opportunities
Anirban’s Angle: Right or Wrong, Our Confidence Intervals…
October 3, 2012
Featuring news items about Terry Lyons, Nat Schenker, James L Rosenberger, Marie Davidian, Robert N. Rodriguez, Adrian Smith.
Schramm Lecturer for 2014: Terry Lyons
We are pleased to announce the 2014 Schramm Lecturer will be Terry Lyons.
Terry is the Wallis Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, UK. He…