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Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 9
Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 9 CONTENTS 1.- GENERAL NEWS 2.- EVENTS 3 - PRIZES 4.- OBITUARIES 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS For information to be considered in the next issue please contact Dario Spanò (D.Spano@warwick.ac.uk) November 10, 2011. Please join me in welcoming our new editor, Dario Spano, to this edition of Bernoulli EBriefs and, on behalf of the entire membership, to express sincere thanks to former editors Carenne Ludena and Ramses Mena for an outstanding job these past few years. EBriefs is proving to be an excellent resource for timely communication of the many varied activities and opportunities available around the world. Best wishes to all. Ed Waymire, President 1.- GENERAL NEWS * Ed Waymire is the new president and Wilfrid Kendall is the new president-elect of the Bernoulli Society. We all wish to congratulate them on their new appointments. * New lecture series in honor of Oded Schramm. A new lecture series is being initiated in collaboration with IMS to honor the memory of Oded Schramm. Details will appear in Bernoulli News. 2.- EVENTS 2.1- Events sponsored by BernSoc.
*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/> - Early registration opens for ISI Istanbul on September 15. Register now for discounted rates! - Bernoulli Society members may be interested in the following You-Tube video, which provides marvellous motivation for signing up to the next World Congress. - Submit your abstract at http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=abstract Abstract submission deadline March 16, 2012. - List of invited speakers and invited sessions already available - Download the flyer of the conference at <http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/Flyer-World-Congress-2012.pdf> * 12th Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Viña del Mar, Chile. March 26-30, 2012 - List of invited speakers and invited sessions already available - Early bird registration: September 30, 2011 - Deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2011 More information at <http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/> * 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. <http://www.bfs2012.com/> - Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2011 2.2- Other events * MCQMC 2012, February 13-17, 2012, Sydney, Australia. - Biennial meeting devoted to the study of Monte Carlo (MC) and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. Earlybird registration deadline September 30, 2011. * 2012 PIMS-mprime Summer School in Probability University of British Columbia, Vancouver , Canada, June 4-29, 2012. http://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/ssprob12/ - The school will include two main courses: Omer Angel (Interacting Particle Systems) and Gregory Miermont (Random Maps) - Preliminary information available on the website. For queries please contact the local organizers: Omer Angel angel@math.ubc.ca, Ed Perkins perkins@math.ubc.ca, Gordon Slade slade@math.ubc.ca * ISBA 2012 World Meeting 2 - the premier conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). June 25 – 29, 2012, Kyoto, Japan. -Preliminary program and announcements can be found at <http://www2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~isba2012/> 3. PRIZES * Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey article in probability. The award is biennial, the first of which to be presented at the Bernoulli World Congress in the Summer of 2012. See http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/156 DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATIONS: NOVEMBER 30 Nominations should be submitted to the committee chaired by David Aldous aldous@stat.Berkeley.edu * Wolfgang Doeblin prize 2012 The Prize is to honour the scientific work of Wolfgang Doeblin. It will be awarded for outstanding work in the field of probability, to a single individual who is at the beginning of his or her mathematical career. See <http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/158> DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATIONS: NOVEMBER 30 Each nomination should offer a brief case in support and should be sent to doeblinprize@statslab.cam.ac.uk.
4- OBITUARIES Paul Meier passed away on August 7,2011 in New York, NY, USA, age 87. The statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine is best known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment. Read an obituary at The Lancet website doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61438-4. 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues:
- SPA 121 (10,11) 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 * Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html
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