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Steven Ferris Arnold, age 70, of State College, PA, died December 6, 2014, at his residence. Steve was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Penn State University. Steve was a 1966 graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., summa cum laude, and earned a MS (1967) and PhD in Statistics from…

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June 30, 2015 - July 2, 2015
Leeds, United Kingdom
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Our research workshops have facilitated interdisciplinary discussion between participants that have resulted in important research collaborations and cutting edge applications. To celebrate the four decades of Leeds Workshops, the 2015 LASR Workshop will focus on geometry-driven statistics, which include advanced methods in the analysis of manifolds, directional data analysis and…

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Peter Bickel writes: Of the nine National Medals of Science awarded by President Obama this year, three were in what I view, ecumenically, as the mathematical, information and data sciences. The medals are awarded to David Blackwell, posthumously, to Alexandre Chorin and to Thomas Kailath. Of these, David Blackwell’s is…

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The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for the Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology, to be held June 22-25, 2015, at NIMBioS. Objectives: This collaborative workshop aims to help build a strong collaboration network of women working on problems in mathematical…

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Laurent Cavalier, Professor of Mathematics at the Aix-Marseille Université, France, passed away on January 13, 2014, after being operated on for appendicitis in a hospital in Marseille, France. He was only 42 years old. Laurent Cavalier was born on October 13, 1971. After studying pure mathematics at the University of…

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