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September 2, 2011
“Ranking Our Excellence,” or “Assessing Our Quality,” or Whatever…
One of the final responsibilities of each IMS President is to deliver a Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting. Peter Hall gave his talk on August 1 at JSM in Miami. The text is reproduced in full here.
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics held its 74th annual meeting at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami’s South Beach, from July 30 to August 4, 2011. The IMS highlights at JSM included the three Wald lectures by Greg Lawler, the Neyman lecture by Michael I. Jordan, and five Medallion lectures,…
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July 18, 2011
The Association for Women in Mathematics invites early career women to give a poster presentation at its 40 Years and Counting: AWM’s Celebration of Women in Mathematics conference at Brown University, September 17-18, 2011. This meeting, which is the grand finale event of AWM’s 40th anniversary, will also feature 4…