The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University will host the five-day CBMS conference, “Foundations of Causal Graphical Models and Structure Discovery,” May 15–19 in College Station, Texas.

The National Science Foundation and Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences will support two regional research conferences in 2016 intended to stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research.

The National Science Foundation recently announced support for eight NSF-CBMS regional research conferences to be held during 2014. These eight bring to 353 the total number of such conferences since the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference Series began in 1969.

Every five years since 1965, a comprehensive study of U.S. undergraduate programs in the mathematical sciences has been undertaken by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. In 2010, a stratified random sample of 600 institutions was selected from the roughly 2,500 that are either public two-year colleges or (public or private) four-year colleges and universities with undergraduate programs in mathematics or statistics. Read on to learn what the survey found.

The National Science Foundation will hold six conferences with the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences in the spring and summer of 2011. Read more about them here.

Since 1965, the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences has undertaken a comprehensive study of U.S. undergraduate programs in the mathematical sciences, with funding from the National Science Foundation and support from the mathematical sciences professional societies.

Due to the economic downturn, many (most?) colleges and universities are looking to cut costs. At the University of Central Florida, this means eliminating the Department of Statistics (among others). At other universities, it could mean merging a statistics department with another discipline. Even worse, it could mean breaking up a statistics department and sending individual faculty to different departments.