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November 21, 2011
Competition for an Open Source Exhibition of Virtual Models
The IMS is a partner in the following competition as part of the world initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013). The proposed exhibition will have a virtual part as well as instructions to realize material parts. Examples of modules or…
Kavita Ramanan reports:
The 16th Applied Probability Conference, sponsored by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS and co-sponsored by the IMS, was held from July 6–8, 2011, on the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. This three-day conference is part of a series of biannual…
I am writing concerning an important matter that is likely to be of particular interest to our US-based membership, and that may also be of interest to other IMS members.
The Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Sastry Pantula, has…
November 17, 2011
There’s a world of difference between the talk and the walk. In this column, Terry Speed explains what he knows about knowledge.