News
October 2, 2011
The Workshop on Probability and Statistics in Finance, sponsored by the IMS special interest group on “Finance: Probability and Statistics” (FPS) and the Statistics Department of Columbia University, took place on June 23, 2011 at Columbia University. After a continental breakfast and welcoming remarks, four speakers gave talks, punctuated by…
IMS President, Ruth Williams, writes this introductory message, in which she informs readers about some of the ongoing and upcoming activities of the IMS, and encourages your participation.
Our discipline of probability and statistics is rapidly growing in diverse directions. Despite the wonders of modern communication, it can sometimes be…
September 29, 2011
IMS Fellow and former president Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan, New York University, has been named a recipient of the US National Medal of Science- the highest honor bestowed by the government- for “his work in probability theory, especially his work on large deviations from expected random behavior, which has revolutionized …
September 21, 2011
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) calls for nominations for the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize to be awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics. All members of the mathematical community are invited to submit nominations for the Prize. The nominee may be…
Please note that the next deadline for the AWM/NSF Travel Grant is October 1, 2011. The Association for Women in Mathematics travel program supports these opportunities for women:
1. Travel Grants in mathematics, for women mathematicians attending mathematics conferences.
2. Travel Grants for women mathematicians attending a mathematics education research…