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…

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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…

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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.…

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Please note that the next deadline for the NSF-AWM Travel Grant applications is October 7, 2007. The Association for Women in Mathematics travel program supports two types of travel grants for women: Travel Grants in mathematics, for mathematicians attending mathematics conferences. Travel Grants for mathematicians and mathematics education researchers: for…

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Editor-in-Chief, Applied Probability and Operations Research Deadline for Nominations: October 31, 2007 The Applied Probability Society (APS) of INFORMS, in cooperation with the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), will publish a new journal in the area of applied probability, tentatively titled Applied Probability and Operations Research (APOR). It…

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