The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 2026 Mathematical Sciences Survey will collect enrollment data from US math and statistics departments nationwide, continuing a five-decade tradition of tracking educational trends to help institutions understand student patterns and secure academic resources.
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SIAM Seeks Nominations for Student Paper Prize
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Student Paper Prize is awarded annually to the student author(s) of the most outstanding paper(s) accepted by SIAM journals within the three years preceding the nomination deadline.
Tamara G. Kolda
Tamara G. Kolda’s career began at the dawn of the internet, in the pre-Google era. Since then, she has worked at the intersection of mathematics, computing, and data. She was awarded the Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee after completing her doctorate and worked for two decades at Sandia National Labs in California. She has benefitted from the advice and guidance of many statisticians along the way and finds the community to be highly collegial. She helped launch and serves as founding editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, an academic journal focused on the mathematical and statistical foundations of data science methods.
Apply for the 2020-2021 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
This fellowship focuses on data science and related expertise such as machine learning, data visualization, and causal inference to meet legislative and policymaking challenges.
Sloan Foundation Funding to Enhance Data Science Expertise in Federal Government
With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the ASA and its sister societies will sponsor three AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows in the federal government in each of the next two years.
Celebrate the Significance of Mathematics and Statistics
April marks a time to increase the understanding and appreciation of mathematics and statistics. Why? Because both subjects play a significant role in addressing many real-world problems—climate change, disease, sustainability, the data deluge, internet security, and much more. Research in these and other areas is ongoing, revealing new results and applications every day in fields such as medicine, manufacturing, energy, biotechnology, and business. Mathematics and statistics are important drivers of innovation in our technological world, in which new systems and methodologies continue to become more complex.
How Do I Write a Book Proposal?
You’ve decided to write a book, or you already have a draft, and now you need to find a publisher. Between you and a publishing contract lies the book proposal form. Every publisher has one, and most of the information included is standard. Here’s what you can expect to be asked when proposing a book to the ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability.
New Online Material Available for Book on Mathematica
Mathematica Laboratories for Mathematical Statistics: Emphasizing Simulation and Computer Intensive Methods, by Jenny A. Baglivo, provides a model for incorporating technology and modern statistical methods into mathematical statistics courses. Although the print book was originally published in 2005, the electronic material accompanying the text (previously provided on CD-ROM) were recently updated for use with current versions of Mathematica and are available online.
ASA, SIAM Collaborate on Uncertainty Quantification Journal
The ASA and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recently recognized the needed synergy between mathematics and statistics to address major challenges at the interface of computer modeling of complex processes and data by embarking on a joint effort to create the Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
Authors Praise Series Publishing Process
The editors of the ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability asked some of their established authors their thoughts about having published in the series. Here are their comments.