Volume 31 Issue 3 IMS Bulletin May/June 2002 Putting the ‘Me’ in Meetings Susan Murphy, IMS Program Secretary, In every leap year the IMS Annual writes about how Meeting is held jointly with the CONTENTS you can contribute to Bernoulli Society, usually outside of the 1 Getting Involved in the organization of North American continent. Planning IMS Meetings our meetings: begins at least two years before the The planning of the meeting. In all of these meetings, our 2 IMS contacts; Articles: Members’ scientific program partner societies take the lead in site News; Free Access to for IMS meetings selection. However in every leap year IMS Journals; Abstract usually begins with plus two (2002, 2006…) we set the News; Fulbright Grants the selection of an IMS program chair. location and time of the IMS Annual 4 Letters to the Editor Once IMS Council approves a program Meeting ourselves. This year’s annual chair, he or she begins to solicit ideas meeting will be in Banff, Canada, 7 Articles: Conference for invited sessions and names of and will coincide with the Fourth Report; MARMAP; Math- potential organizers. This is the time to International Probability Symposium. It Net; Berkeley-Stanford Celebration make suggestions about invited session will include two invited sessions by the topics to the program chair. Statistical Society of Canada, and also 9 Profile: Eurandom The IMS Eastern Regional Meeting a Royal Statistical Society Ordinary 10 IMS Meetings (ENAR) is held jointly with Biometrics Meeting. Leo Breiman will give the Society in late March of each year, with Wald Lectures, and Wing Wong the 14 Obituaries: the planning beginning in January of Neyman Lecture. We will soon begin Shanti S Gupta, Maurice S Bartlett, Justus F the previous year. The IMS Western to consider potential sites for the 2006 Seeley, Silvi Liberman & Regional Meeting (WNAR) is also held annual meeting. Suggestions are most Harry O Posten jointly with the Biometrics Society, in welcome. late June. We usually start planning this IMS would like to sponsor at least 18 News, Announcements and meetings around meeting a year ahead. one meeting outside of the North the world Each August, IMS meets with the American continent every year. Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). In Plans are currently under way for a 20 Employment odd numbered years this is the IMS joint meeting in 2003 with ISBA Opportunities Annual Meeting. Usually about in Puerto Rico. Now is the time to 24 International Calendar 18 months before the JSM, we can suggest session ideas! We also have of Statistical Events entertain proposals for the very popular tentative plans for a joint meeting 27 Information for introductory overview lectures and for with RSS in 2005. If you have ideas Advertisers round-table luncheons. [Suggestions for joint meetings outside of the are most welcome: contact the program North American continent (and most chair or Susan [email protected]]. importantly, names of willing and able We sponsor the North American local organizers) please email me at Meeting of New Researchers, held in [email protected] odd years, usually in the proximity of Program chair contact details the corresponding JSM. Planning for are at www.imstat.org/meetings/ the JSM begins about two years ahead. imsmeet.phtml. IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 31 . Issue 3 Volume 31, Issue 3 May/June 2002 News from IMS members ISSN 0146-3942 Guy Nason has been promoted to Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Contact Bristol, UK. Takis Papaioannou, Professor of Statistics of the University of Piraeus, greece, has been Information elected President of the Greek Statistical Institute for the period 2002-2004. 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