Volume 36 • Issue 2 IMS Bulletin March 2007 Full IMS archives on Project Euclid In a bold move, IMS has decided to post all its journals’ past content CONTENTS on Project Euclid http://projecteuclid.org. To date, only those items 1 Open Access IMS journals published since 1995 have been available through Project Euclid, but coming soon, all IMS journals from the first issue of publication will 2 IMS Members’ News: Bin Yu, Gunnar Kulldorff made available, with open access. This is a large undertaking for the IMS and Project Euclid. In all it IMS partners Bernoulli 2 means we’ll be posting 10,415 additional Society articles. 3–5 Reports: Frontiers of This comprises 4,120 articles from Statistics; Multivariate Annals of Mathematical Statistics; 2,918 Statistical Methods; ICM from Annals of Statistics; 2,319 from 6–8 Obituaries: Ted Harris; Jerry Annals of Probability; 265 from Annals Klotz; Chu-In Charles Lee; of Applied Probability; and 793 from Milton Friedman Statistical Science. 9 SAMSI programs Project Euclid is a user-centered initiative to cre- ate an environment for the effective and affordable distri- 10 IMS Groups bution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid 12 Annual Survey 2005 is designed to address the unique needs of independent and society 13 Terence’s Stuff: The Big journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, Problem professional societies, and academic libraries. 14 Rick’s Ramblings: How All IMS members receive free electronic access to all IMS journals, should we judge Applied currently through Project Euclid, JSTOR [www.jstor.org] or ArXiv Probability papers? [http://arxiv.org]. If you’re a new member, or haven’t set up your electronic access, it’s easy: check the instructions at http://www.imstat. 16 IMS Meetings org/publications/eaccess.htm 21 Other Meetings and We’ll keep you posted as these back issues become available. Announcements 25 Employment Opportunities LECTURE 33 Treasurer’s Report NEW LNMS VOLUMES RELEASED NOTES – Four new volumes in the IMs Lecture Notes— MONOGRAPH 40 International Calendar of Monograph Series have been released. You can order SERIES Statistical Events LNMS Volume 48: Dynamics and Stochastics: your copy from http://www.imstat.org/publications/ Festschrift in honor of M.S. Keane Information for Advertisers Dee Denteneer, Frank Den Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy, Editors 43 Th is volume contains 29 contributions by Mike’s closest colleagues covering lecnotes.htm a broad range of topics in Dynamics and Stochastics. PERCOLATION AND INTERACTING PARTICLE SYSTEMS Polymer pinning in a random medium as infl uence percolation: V. Beff ara, V. Kakuro corner The four new volumes are Volume 48: Sidoravicius, H. Spohn and M. E. Vares; Proof of a conjecture of N. Konno for the 44 Dynamics 1D contact process: J. van den Berg, O. Häggström and J. Kahn; Uniqueness and multiplicity of infi nite clusters: Geoff rey Grimmett; A note on percolation in co- cycle measures: Ronald Meester RANDOM WALKS and Stochastics: Festschrift in honor of M.S. Keane; On random walks in random scenery: F. M. Dekking and P. 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Issue 2 Volume 36 • Issue 2 March 2007 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 Bin Yu receives IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Paper Award Professor Bin Yu’s paper, “Perceptual audio coding using adaptive pre- and post-filters and Contact lossless compression”, co-authored with three (Dr Gerald Shuller of Frauhofer-Institute Information fur Digitale Medientechnologie, Germany, Dr Dawei Huang of Bell Labs China, and Dr Bernd Edler of Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany) has been selected to receive a Bulletin Editor Xuming He 2006 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This honor will be pre- Assistant Editor Tati Howell sented at Awards at ICASSP2007 (http://www.icassp2007.org/). To contact the IMS Bulletin: Gunnar Kulldorff awarded Honorary Doctoral degree IMS Bulletin IMS Fellow Professor Gunnar Kulldorff has been awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris 20 Shadwell Causa by the University of Vilnius for his international merits in statistical science and for Uley, Dursley his contribution to studies of statistics in the University of Vilnius and in the Baltic states. GL11 5BW UK The ceremony took place on May 5 in the University Church of St John. Gunnar Kulldorff e [email protected] is an elected member of the ISI since 1968 and an IASS member. He served the ISI as Vice-President (1981–85), President-Elect (1987–89) and President (1989–91). Since 1993, he has been Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Umeå in To contact the IMS regarding your dues, Sweden. membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: Institute of Mathematical Statistics Dues and Subscriptions Office IMS partners Bernoulli Society 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A Bethesda, The IMS recently entered into an agreement with the Bernoulli Society (BS) to print, dis- MD 20814-3998 tribute and market Bernoulli. The Bernoulli Society will maintain full ownership, copyright USA and editorial control of the journal. The partnership allows both societies to achieve greater t 301.634.7029 economies of scale with their journals. Beginning in 2007, Bernoulli will be marketed with f 301.634.7099 all the IMS journals to institutions and libraries. Significant discounts will be available e [email protected] to libraries who opt to subscribe to all the IMS/BS journals. Subscriptions to individual journals will remain available. To contact the IMS regarding any other Peter Jagers, BS President commented, “The IMS has a great record in scientific journal matter, including advertising, copyright publishing, regarding both content and availability. We are glad that the IMS has agreed permission, offprint orders, copyright hook arms with us in publishing Bernoulli, and believe that this is just one step in develop- transfer, societal matters, meetings, ing our good relations for the benefit of statistical science.” fellows nominations and content of publications: Jim Pitman, IMS President, stated, “This agreement strengthens the alliance between the IMS and Bernoulli societies. Other cooperations include a joint membership agree- Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office ment, and joint publication of five open access electronic journals: the Electronic Journal PO Box 22718 of Probability, Electronic Communications in Probability, Probability Surveys, the Electronic Beachwood, Journal of Statistics, and Statistics Surveys. Please express your support of the IMS/BS alli- OH 44122 ance by submitting your articles to IMS/BS journals, applying for IMS/BS membership, USA and participating in IMS/BS-sponsored events.” Elyse Gustafson, IMS Executive Director, t 216.295.2340 added, “This partnership creates opportunities that can help us compete in a world of for- f 216.295.5661 e [email protected] profit publishers.” The IMS is looking to forge future partnerships with other non-profit and scholarly society journals. If you are aware of a society that would like assistance publishing or would like to market jointly with the IMS, please contact the IMS Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson, at [email protected]. March. 2007 IMs Bulletin . IMS Executive Committee President: Jim Pitman Update from ‘Frontiers of Statistics’ [email protected] President-Elect: Jianqing Fan Jianqing Fan, Princeton University, reports: The “Symposium on the Frontiers of [email protected] Statistics in Honor of Peter J. Bickel’s 65th birthday” took place May 18–20, 2006, at Past President: Thomas G Kurtz Princeton University. The meeting was co-sponsored by the IMS and IISA with generous [email protected] financial support from the National Science Foundation, Minerva Research Foundation, Executive Secretary: Cindy Christiansen Bendheim Center for Finance and and Department of Operations Research and Financial [email protected] Engineering. It attracted about 200 participants including many top
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