CHANGE TO ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICEEffective January 1, 2009, online subscription access to the ASA’s journals will be provided by Atypon. The transition to this new service provider requires that all institutional and nonmember individual subscribers activate their account, even if they have previously done so on Ingenta. Read more... |
David Blackwell to be Honored |
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| David Blackwell, recently named "greatest black mathematician and statistician," will be honored Dec. 30 by the African and African-American Diaspora Club of the University of California, Stanford University, Cal Tech, and the University of Southern California. Blackwell is professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Information about his extraordinary career can be found here |
Academic Salary Survey Now Available |
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| The 2008 Academic Salary Survey report is now available for viewing. |
Updated NSF Solicitation Available |
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| Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences (CMG) Submission window for Full Proposal: February 24, 2009 - March 10, 2009 |
John H. Thompson Named President of National Opinion Research Center (NORC) |
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| NORC at the University of Chicago announced today that John H. Thompson
has accepted the position of President. Thompson has served as NORC's
Interim President since February and as NORC's Executive Vice President
for Survey Operations since he joined the organization in 2002. Thompson
came to NORC after a distinguished 27-year career at the U.S. Census
Bureau, where, as one the Bureau's most senior career officers, he had
responsibility for all aspects of the 2000 Decennial Census th including
management, operations, and methodology. Read release… |
Journal of Statistics Education Call for Nominations and Applications |
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| The American Statistical Association invites nominations and applications for the position of editor of the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE). More... |
ONR Solicits Proposals on Computational Foundations for Information Fusion |
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| ONR has recently released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals to develop computational foundations for information fusion. The BAA is accessible here. Section 6 covers the scope and topics of interest. |
NSF/DMS Solicits Proposals on Threat Detection |
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| DMS is soliciting proposals from the mathematical sciences community to assist in the detection of chemical and biological materials. See the "Dear Colleague" letter for more information. |
NSF/DMS Not Accepting VIGRE Proposals in 2009 |
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| No proposals requesting support under the VIGRE component of the EMSW21
solicitation will be accepted for the June 2009 submission date (i.e.,
for the FY2010 competition). For further information, please see the program
solicitation. This change in status of VIGRE is also the topic of the “Dear Colleague” letter NSF 08-085. The text of the "Dear Colleague" letter can be viewed on the NSF website. |
Statistics in Defense and National Security University Speakers Program |
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| Have you ever wondered what kind of statistical research helps keep our nation safe from biological attacks or helps officials understand terrorist networks? Are you interested to learn what a defense statistician’s job is like and what kinds of problems they face? If so, read on! |
Editor, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining |
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| The American Statistical Association (ASA) invites applications and nominations for the position of editor of the Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. Read more... |
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NSA Mathematical Sciences Program is moving to electronic submission. The NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation has been updated. A new NSF program solicitation is now available: CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative (SOLAR). |
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