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Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 3
Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 3. Deadline to submit information for next issue: August 20, 2011. Contents 1. GENERAL NEWS 2. EVENTS 3. SAD NEWS 4. PRIZES AND FUNDING 5. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. GENERAL NEWS * The International Statistical Institute Celebrates 125th Anniversary - See http://isi.cbs.nl/isi125.html and also check out the new ISI web page * Latest News on the World Statistics Day on 20-10-2010 http://isi-web.org/news/world-statistics-day * Call for papers for Statistics and Probability Letters special issue in Statistics in Biological and Medical Sciences of Statistics and Probability Letters. Further information at http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/stapro-cfp.pdf 2. EVENTS * 5th International Workshop in Applied Probability, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Colmenarejo Campus, on July 5th-8th, 2010. - Full program already available. Further information at http://www.fundacion.uc3m.es/IWAP2010/ * 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, August 17-22, 2010. - Registration is still open. Further information at http://www.unipi.gr/ems2010/ * 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Osaka, Japan, September 6-10, 2010. - Full program already available. - Special session: "World Statistics Day: The future of societies of mathematical statistics & probability". Speakers are ISI President-Elect Jae C. Lee and BS President-Elect Edward Waymire. - Deadline for posters submission: June 30, 2010. - Deadline for registration as participant: August 15, 2010. Further information at http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/ * 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 19-24, 2011. - Check out the list of plenary speakers and invited sessions Further information at http://abalontico.matem.unam.mx/SPA/ * 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Dublin, August 21-26, 2011. - Bernoulli Society Satellite meeting on Dynamic Statistical Models, Copenhagen Denmark, August 17-19. For further information contact Susanne Ditlevsen: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. * 8th Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Veracruz, Mexico, June 26-30, 2011. Further information at http://www.bnpworkshop.org * The Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes (CCSP) has selected Boulder, Colorado, USA, as the venue for the 36th conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications to be held in 2013, from July 29 to August 2.
3. SAD NEWS * We sadly report the passing of three great mathematicians on 3rd of June: - Paul Malliavin. See obituary at http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/M/Malliavin_Paul.htm - Vladimir Arnold. More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold - Vidmantas Kastytis Bentkus http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/vidmantas-kastytis-bentkus.htm 4. PRIZES AND FUNDING * The BS congratulates Sir David Cox FRS for receiving the Copley medal awarded by the Royal Society at its 350th anniversary. Another Copley medal went to Dr Tomas Lindahl FRS. More info at http://royalsociety.org/Royal-Society-recognises-excellence-in-science/ 5. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues: - Bernoulli 16(2) http://projecteuclid.org/bj - SPA 120(5-8) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa * Co-sponsored open access publications: Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist. Surveys at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm * Last issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html
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