*IMS Council Elections*
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2012 IMS elections. The next President-Elect is Bin Yu. Five Council Members were elected for a three-year term (Erwin Bolthausen, Alison Etheridge, Xiao-Li Meng, Nancy Reid, and Richard Samworth) and one for a one-year term (Nancy Lopes Garcia). For full results see http://imstat.org/news/2012/06/19/1340124690475.html
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*Journals published since last eBulletin*Annals of Applied Probability 22(3) June 2012 http://projecteuclid.org/aoap
Annals of Applied Statistics 6(2) June 2012 http://projecteuclid.org/aoas
Statistical Science 27(2) May 2012 http://projecteuclid.org/ss
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare 48(3) August 2012 http://projecteuclid.org/aihp
Bernoulli 18(3) August 2012 http://projecteuclid.org/bj-------------
*IMS annual meeting at World Congress*If you're coming to the World Congress in Istanbul (July 9–14), stop by the IMS membership desk to say hello. If your students will be there, remind them that IMS membership is free, and provides them with online access to all the IMS journals - they can join up at the IMS booth or online. Hope to see you there!
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*IMS Conferences*The Third Workshop for Women in Probability will take place October 14-16, 2012, at Duke University in Durham, NC. An NSF grant is now confirmed: apply by September 1. Registration is also open: deadline is October 1. See details at http://www.math.duke.edu/~rtd/wwp12/WWP2012.html
There will be a memorial session in honor of David Blackwell at JSM in San Diego (July 28 to August 2). Organized by Erhan Çinlar, the speakers are Erhan Çinlar, Bill Massey, Todd Coleman, and Richard Lockhart. See program details at http://amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/
The program committee of the Ninth Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics (Amsterdam, 10-14 June, 2013) invites submissions for contributed talks and posters from any area of Bayesian nonparametrics and related topics. Please submit before October 15 via the BNP9 webpage at http://www.bnp9.win.tue.nl
2013 marks the 300th anniversary of the publication of Jacob Bernoulli's book 'Ars Conjectandi' in 1713. In recognition of this, IMS and the Bernoulli Society are jointly sponsoring the Ars Conjectandi lecture at next year's JSM in Montreal (August 3–8, 2013). The speaker will be David Spiegelhalter.
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*Featured Publication*IMS Collections: Volume 2
"Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman", edited by Deborah Nolan and Terry SpeedIncluded in this volume are probability articles on convex distribution functions, Dutch book, a Markov chain, and Brownian motion; statistics papers on projection pursuit, multivariate likelihood, multiple testing, French multivariate analysis, and influence functions; and papers that present historical and philosophical perspectives on probability and statistics.
This book can be viewed at
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=toc&handle=euclid.imsc/1207580069
IMS Members pay $65 for a print copy of the book (non-member price $108). Order your copy by logging in at
https://secure.imstat.org/members/imsmember.htm