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November 12, 2007
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge, U.K., is hosting a six-month research program on “Statistical Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data” from January through June, 2008. The program is attracting some of the leading researchers in statistics, computer science, and computational biology. See www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/ for more details on…
Nominations are being accepted for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize, to be awarded at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting in July 2008.
Anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied and computational mathematics is eligible for this prize. Nominations must be…
October 19, 2007
David Aldous reports: The 2007 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Richard Kenyon of Brown University, USA. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at a ceremony in Berkeley in October 2007.
Richard Kenyon received his PhD in 1990, advised…
This is the IMS Presidential Address given by Jim Pitman at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City, July 30, 2007. View it in the IMS Bulletin, Vol 36, Issue 8, pages 12–15 [pdf]
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October 17, 2007
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Scott L. Zeger as the recipient of the 2007 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Dr. Zeger, the Frank Hurley and Catherine Dorrier Professor in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, delivered a lecture entitled…