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June 14, 2011
Thanks to a generous bequest by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting, this year held at JSM in Miami, July 30 – August 4, 2011. This year the IMS Committee on…
IMS Members: you can now access JCGS (the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics) free as part of your membership. Login to the members’ area to read the latest issue.…
June 13, 2011
Terry Speed recently attended a meeting on interdisciplinary statistical science, which got him thinking, what does that mean?
June 10, 2011
In the back of the cab, Benoît Mandelbrot was at work. We had an appointment in Manhattan together, and the Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician did not like the geometry of the route the taxi driver was taking.
“Why don’t you go down Second Avenue?” he asked the driver. Cross on 25th,…
The IMS Committee on Fellows has selected 18 new IMS Fellows this year. They will be presented at JSM in Miami, at the IMS Presidential Address on Monday, August 1, 2011, 8:00–9:30pm. The Fellows are:…