News
May 30, 2007
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…
May 11, 2007
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…
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…
March 22, 2007
The day it was announced that Varadhan would receive the 2007 Abel Prize, the editors of the IMS Bulletin invited me to write a profile “bio-sketch”. Having, as a consequence of writing two biographical pieces about him in the past, become his official biographer, I suppose they assumed that it…
Recognizing that the interests of IMS members now span an enormous range from pure mathematical theory to collaborations with scientists in numerous fields, IMS is launching a new journal, The Annals of Applied Statistics, aimed at papers in the applied half of this range. Published quarterly in both print…