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November 21, 2011
The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be given annually and will be featured at meetings (co)-sponsored by the IMS or the Bernoulli Society with a strong attendance…
The 2011 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Scott Sheffield of M.I.T. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley, California, on Friday March 23, 2012.
Scott Sheffield received his PhD in 2003, advised by Amir…
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Cornell Library digitizes historic collection of Eugene Dynkin interviews
Cornell University Library has acquired a collection of interviews of mathematicians conducted over many years by Eugene Dynkin, Cornell’s Emeritus A. R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics.
Dynkin worked with the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) and Digital Scholarship…
Editor-in-Chief of the new Stochastic Systems journal is Peter W. Glynn, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He writes:
The IMS and the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS are engaged in the cooperative publication of a new online open access (free) journal called Stochastic …