Donald Lyman Burkholder died in his sleep on April 14, 2013, in Urbana, Illinois. He was born January 19, 1927, in Octavia, Nebraska, the fourth of five children of Elmer and Susan (Rothrock) Burkholder. His mother had been a schoolteacher, and his father was a farmer who served on the…

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Robert McCallum Blumenthal passed away on November 8, 2012 at the age of 81, after a long illness. Bob, as he was known to one and all, was a mathematician whose main interest was probability theory, especially continuous parameter Markov processes on a topological state space. He received his PhD…

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2013 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences Call for Nominations 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 Twelfth Annual Janet…

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For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences 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 Twelfth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a…

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Topics include portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk tools, high-performance computing, market microstructure, and econometrics — in the context of using R. We will award two or more $1000 prizes for the best complete papers. Financial assistance for travel and accommodation may be available; requests should be made with…

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