The report on comments received by the Institute ofMathematical Statistics (IMS) in response to the proposal to changethe name of the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences is now complete. This was prepared by three former IMS Presidents,-Peter Bickel (Committee Chair, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley),-Iain Johnstone (Statistics and Health Research and…

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The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics) will be held on July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. Scheduled every four years, it is jointly organized by IMS and the Bernoulli Society. This meeting is a major worldwide event for statistics and probability, covering all its branches including theoretical, methodological,…

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Featuring news items about Itai Benjamini, Johan Fellman, Michael Akritas, S.N. Lahiri, Dimitris Politis, Jerome Reiter, Alan Karr, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, and the IMS online journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability

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  Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham. This cartoon, originally published at www.phdcomics.com, echoes the sentiments in Terry Speed’s last column. You can read what he has to say about looking—really looking—for solutions, in his column on page 13 of the Jan/Feb 2012 issue, or here.…

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When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the face of American education in mathematics,” we naturally wanted to find out how statistics and probability will be represented… George…

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