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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…
October 9, 2007
IPAM is holding a 1-day workshop on October 29. The workshop is intended to aid those interested in writing proposals to understand the initiative better and to help them in finding collaborators.
The NSF is rolling out a major new initiative in late September on “Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation.” This…
September 21, 2007
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association invites nominations for the 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, honoring a statistician aged 40 or younger who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics. The award was established in 1970 and is presented annually at the APHA meeting.…