The International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IMS), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have formed a Committee of “Quantitative Assessment of Research” that will investigate various aspects of the quantitative assessment of research in mathematics. The Committee will, in particular, look…

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The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Sixth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award will be conferred…

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Bradley Efron of Stanford University, an IMS Fellow, former IMS president, and current editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics, has been awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush. The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be…

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Statistics, up to now a category within the Math archive, will now be a top-level archive. See http://arxiv.org/archive/stat. The existing math.ST category will be linked to new stat.TH category. The statistics archive is organized into the following five categories: Applications (stat.AP): Biology, Education, Epidemiology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Medical, Physical…

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Three IMS Fellows have been recently elected to academies. Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Richard Durrett (Cornell University) and Sir John Kingman (past director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge) have been elected to…

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