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e-Briefs^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 38 November 2019 ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Contents:
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by January 30th.
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***Donations welcome for Young Researcher Outreach Award With the next BS membership payment there will be the chance to make a donation that will go towards the “Young Researcher Outreach Award” and will finance the travel and accommodation of young researchers from developing countries (as per the World Bank classification) to attend the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (17-21 Aug, 2020), including the Pre-meeting for Young Researchers (15-16 Aug, 2020) in Seoul, South Korea. We appreciate your support!
***Leonardo Rolla as new Publicity Secretary and Sebastian Engelke as new Membership Secretary As of November 2019, Leonardo Rolla (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) has succeeded Victor Panaretos as the Publicity Chair. Leonardo’s recent role as Membership Secretary is taken over by Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva, Switzerland). We thank Victor for leading the Publicity Committee and we know that Leo and Sebastian will continue the great work!
***Bikramjit Das appointed new chair of the EAPRC Bikramjit Das (SUTD, Singapore) has been appointed as the new chair of the East Asia Pacific Regional Committee (EAPRC), succeeding Konstantin Borovkov, in that role as of January 2020, for a two-year term. We thank Konstantin for his contributions and wish Bikramjit success in his new role!
***LARC-SLAPEM General Assembly at XV CLAPEM The General Assembly of the Latin American Regional Committee - Sociedad Latinoamericana de Probabilidad y Estadistica Matematica will take place on Thursday, December 5, 2019 during the XV CLAPEM in Mérida, Yucatán, México. We invite all the LARC-SLAPEM members to participate in this Assembly and to discuss possible future actions to promote collaboration and dissemination of Probability and Mathematical Statistics in the region.
***Call for hosting the XVI CLAPEM in 2022 Preliminary bids/expressions of interest should be emailed to the LARC’s chair Florencia Leonardi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and LARC’s member Juan Carlos Abril (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The due date for bids is February 29, 2020. A preliminary bid should specify names and affiliations of academics who have provisionally agreed to serve on the Local Organizing Committee.
***Byeong Park wins the 33rd Inchon Award in Science and Technology Our former Scientific Secretary, Byeong Uk Park (Seoul National University) has received the 33rd Inchon Award, which is recognized as one of the major awards in Republic of Korea. Inchon is the pen name of a famous Korean who established "Korea University", "Dong-A Daily News" (a very popular newspaper in the nation) and held the office of Vice-President of Republic of Korea about 70 years ago. Professor Park won the award in the field of Science and Technology for the first time in statistical science. Each recipient of the award is presented with the Letter of Citation, a medal, and a cash prize of 100M Korean Won. Congratulations!
***Call for Nominations for the 2020 Doeblin Prize The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory. Nominations for the 2020 prize are open. Each nomination should offer a brief but adequate case of support and should be sent by December 30, 2019, to the chair of the prize committee, Zhen-Qing Chen, at the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2020. The awardee will be invited to submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and invited to present the Doeblin Prize Lecture. More information at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/.
***Bernoulli-EMS Lecture at the 8th ECM Alice Guionnet (ENS, Lyon, http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/aguionne/)will deliver the joint Bernoulli-EMS Lecture at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics https://www.8ecm.si/, to take place in Slovenia during July 5 – 11, 2020.
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***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) December 2 - 6, 2019 Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latinoamericana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America.
***Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry (Kendall’s 65th Birthday) December 9 - 10, 2019 University of Warwick, UK This two-day meeting will coincide with a celebration of Professor Wilfrid Kendall’s 65th birthday. It will bring together a group of academics working in areas of probability, statistics and theoretical computer science that make use of coupling arguments. In particular, the workshop will be of interest to those working on adaptive MCMC samplers, links between probability and geometry, statistical shape analysis, and perfect simulation algorithms.
***Frontier Probability Days (FPD’20) May 8 - 10, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://lechen.faculty.unlv.edu/FPD20/ The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, taking place in 2020 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2020) June 15 - 19, 2020 Paphos, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/isnps2020/ The conference will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC) August 17 - 21, 2020 Seoul, South Korea The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2021) July 12 - 16, 2021 Wuhan, China SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. The next iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
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* Assistant Professor in Statistics at UC Berkeley. The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for at least one Assistant Professor position, in all areas of Probability, Statistics, and Data Science, with an expected start date of July 1st, 2020. Assistant Professor positions are regarded as tenure-track. Deadline is November 15, 2019. Applications should be submitted online through AP Recruit: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02289
* Tenure-track position at McGill University. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position (R1034) in Computational Statistics and Statistical Learning. The Department welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level, but more senior applicants will be considered. Candidates must have demonstrated excellence in a research domain of computational statistics and statistical learning. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, high-dimensional data analysis, statistical analysis of networks or structured data, big data modelling and spatio-temporal modelling. Applications should be made through http://MathJobs.Org through (Position ID: McGill-COMPSTAT). Deadline for full consideration: November 15, 2019.
* Assistant Professorship in Statistics at UC Davis. The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in Statistics. This search will be conducted at the assistant professor rank and the resulting hires will be at the assistant rank, regardless of the proposed appointee’s qualifications. All areas of Statistics will be considered. Preference will be given to those specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning. Individuals specializing in statistical methods for large and complex or massive data are especially encouraged to apply. Deadline to assure full consideration is November 17, 2019. See https://statistics.ucdavis.edu/resources/employment
* Whittaker Research Fellowships at University of Edinburgh. The School of Mathematics intends to appoint at least one fellowship in each of its themes: Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM); Analysis and Probability (AP); Optimization, Operational Research and Statistics (OORS); Structure & Symmetry (SS – featuring Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Topology). Applications that sit between or beyond these themes or are based in Mathematical Sciences Education (MSE) are also welcome. Deadline is November 21, 2019. Seehttps://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=050154
* Tenure-Track positions at Tilburg University. The Department of Econometrics is looking for two tenure-track assistant or associate professors. Candidates should have a strong background in quantitative methods, contribute to research in economics and finance, and publish in the leading journals in economics, business and statistics. Research interests range from econometrics and statistics, economic and finance theory, and computational economics and finance to applications in economics, finance, and related fields. Deadline is November 27, 2019.See https://econjobmarket.org/positions/6243
* Lectureship/Readership in Probability and Stochastic Analysis at University of Edinburgh. As part of an ambitious long-term plan for the School of Mathematics, the University of Edinburgh is making a substantial number of new appointments in the Mathematical Sciences, which includes expansion into part of the new £40M Bayes Centre. Those pursuing interdisciplinary research with links to other fields, for instance, Computing, Engineering, Finance, Physics, or links to industry are also encouraged to apply. Deadline is November 29, 2019. See https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=050093
* Tenure-track/tenured positions at Peking University. The Center for Statistical Science at Peking University is a cross-campus center for statistical science. There are multiple open rank tenure-track or tenured positions joint with Department of Probability and Statistics (DPS) and Department of Financial Mathematics (DFM), School of Mathematical Science. The position with DPS can be in either Statistics or Probability while the preference is given to the area of Statistics. There is also an open rank tenure-track or tenured position in the area of modern computation-driven statistics with a close connection to Business Analytics jointly with Department of Business Statistics and Econometrics, Guanghua School of Management. Deadline isDecember 1, 2019. See https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14671
* Associate or Full Professor in Statistics at UC Berkeley. The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for at least one Associate or Full Professor position, in all areas of Probability, Statistics, and Data Science, with an expected start date of July 1st, 2020. Deadline is December 6, 2019. Applications should be submitted online through AP Recruit: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02290
* Associate/Assistant Professor in Big Data at The University of Hong Kong. Applications are invited for appointment as tenure-track associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Big Data in Environment and Climate Science in the Research Division for Mathematical and Statistical Science, The University of Hong Kong, to commence as soon as possible. Direct tenure may be offered to outstanding candidates for Associate Professor position. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Computational Biology or related disciplines. Deadline is December 15, 2019. See https://jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/498769.
* Associate/Assistant Professor in AI at The University of Hong Kong. Applications are invited for appointment as Tenure-track Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence (2 posts) in the Research Division for Mathematical and Statistical Science, The University of Hong Kong, to commence as soon as possible. Direct tenure may be offered to outstanding candidates for Associate Professor position. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Data Science/Computational Science, or related disciplines. Deadline is December 31, 2019. See https://jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/498526.
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* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg, Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH
* Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
* Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 37 September 2019 ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Contents:
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th. ________________________
General News ***News from the General Assembly at ISI-WSC At the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, the Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointments: Claudia Klüppelberg (TU Munich) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society (with Adam Jakubowski (University of Torun) as President-Elect) and Song Xi Chen (Peking University) replaced Byeong U. Park as Scientific Secretary. We thank previous President Susan Murphy and previous Scientific Secretary Byeong U. Park for their dedicated service and steering of the society in the past years. Approved were also
Moreover, a new post "Publicity Secretary" on the Executive Committee and a new standing "Publicity Committee" was established with Victor Panaretos as chair. This gives the ad-hoc officer Publicity Chair (Victor Panaretos, since February 2018) its proper status. We thank Victor for his support in developing this important new committee. ***Newly elected SLAPEM Committee 2019-2021 Four new members of the Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society have been elected: Juan Carlos Abril (Argentina), Maria Eulalia Vares (Brazil), Richard Serrano-Agila (Ecuador) and Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (México). The elected new Chair of the Committee is Florencia Leonardi (Brazil). ***Mathias Drton wins the Ethel Newbold Prize 2019 During the ISI World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, the Ethel Newbold Prize winner (see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=207 for background on the prize), selected by the Prize Committee chaired by Eva b. Vedel Jensen, was announced to be Prof. Mathias Drton (U Washington, TU Munich). Congratulations! ***Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics 2022 Nominations for the prize are open now. The prize will be presented at the 2023 ISI World Statistics Congress. Nominations should include full name and email address of both the nominee(s) and nominator, as well as a pdf file of the published survey article in statistics. The nomination material should be emailed to Professor Qiwei Yao at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The nomination deadline is February 28th, 2021. ***Corina Constantinescu as Bernoulli Society Twitter Manager We are pleased to inform that Corina Constantinescu (University of Liverpool) is taking over as main responsible for the Bernoulli Society Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We encourage all BS members to follow the Bernoulli Society on Twitter! _________________
Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society ***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) December 2 - 6, 2019 Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. ***Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry (Kendall’s 65th Birthday) December 9 - 10, 2019 University of Warwick, UK This two-day meeting will coincide with a celebration of Professor Wilfrid Kendall’s 65th birthday. It will bring together a group of academics working in areas of probability, statistics and theoretical computer science that make use of coupling arguments. In particular, the workshop will be of interest to those working on adaptive MCMC samplers, links between probability and geometry, statistical shape analysis, and perfect simulation algorithms. ***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC) August 17 - 21, 2020 Seoul, South Korea The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University. Other Events ***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) September 22 - 26, 2019 Hannover, Germany The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore. ***2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics (SWiM) Program The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute invites applications for its 2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics program. The purpose of this program is to provide space and funds to groups of women mathematicians to work on a research project at MSRI. Seehttps://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/summer-research-for-women-in-mathematics _________________
Job Offers * Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/professorship-in-statistics/
* Professorship of Mathematics at University of Fribourg/Switzerland. Qualified applicants must have an outstanding track record in a field of mathematics with strong potential for applications, such as (but not limited to): PDE, dynamical systems, discrete mathematics, applied algebra, mathematical statistics, data science, numerical analysis, scientific computing. The closing date for applications is October 31st, 2019. See https://www3.unifr.ch/scimed/fr/faculty/positions/. * Assistant Professorship in Applied Mathematics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates whose research centers on the mathematical foundations of (statistical) learning are sought, in particular: high dimensional approximation theory, applied and/or computational harmonic analysis, nonparametric and/or high dimensional statistics, as well as non-convex and/or high dimensional continuous optimization. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/appliedmathematics/ * Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in analysis and/or geometry, broadly construed, are sought. Areas of interest include differential geometry, dynamical systems, geometric analysis, geometric flows, kinetic theory, multiscale analysis and homogenization, (stochastic) PDE. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/mathematics/ ________________
Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications * Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg, Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH * Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 35 April 2019 ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Contents:
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 30th. ________________________ General News
***Bernoulli Society Membership Renewal and Poster We would like to remind all our members to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership at www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. We would also like to encourage you to diffuse information about special offers and fee reductions available to prospective new members. One way is by printing the Bernoulli membership poster and post it in your department's corridor. You can download it from http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/BernoulliPoster2019.pdf. Thank you!
***New Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary Prof. Byeong Park will be stepping down as Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary following his election as Vice President of the ISI. We congratulate him and are very grateful to him for his service to the Bernoulli Society in this role. The Council has approved Prof. Song Xi Chen (Peking University, http://english.gsm.pku.edu.cn/faculty/en/csx.html ) to replace Prof. Park as Scientific Secretary. The new Scientific Secretary, if approved by the Bernoulli GA at the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur, will begin his term immediately after the WSC, completing Prof. Park's term which runs until the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (August 2020). At that point he can be reappointed for the regular four-year term.
***New Bernoulli Society Treasurer Lynne Billard will be stepping down at the end of this year from the position of Treasurer. The Bernoulli Society is grateful to her for her service! The Council has approved Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge,http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/ ) to succeed Prof. Billard as Treasurer. The new Treasurer will start his four-year term as of January 1, 2020, pending final approval by the Bernoulli Society GA during the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur.
***Short Course Program before WSC 2019 Prior to the World Statistics Congress 2019, a rich programme of short courses is being offered to participants. Have a look at http://www.isi2019.org/short-courses/
***Call for Interest in Hosting the Bernoulli-IMS 11th World Congress in 2024 There is a call for proposals to host the 2024 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Susan Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and cc'ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). The due date for bids is June 29, 2019.
***Book by Ole Barndorff-Nielsen The former President of the Bernoulli Society, Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen, has recently published a book "Stochastics in Science: Some autobiographical notes" (published Forlaget Morgenstjerne) which can be of great interest for our community. Summary: "The book gives a kaleidoscopic view of the life of a mathematical scientist. It aims to provide an impression of how multifaceted and fascinating such a life can be, in relation to other scientists. Much of the book can be read without any background knowledge of mathematics, but here and there brief indications of the author's own work are included at stepping stones in the narration. It contains a gallery of remarkable personalities and of historical accounts not available elsewhere. And the author's intense interest in Richard Wagner's operas occasionally shines through."
***Latin American Members (SLAPEM) Bernoulli Society members baring Latin American nationality or affiliation are also members of the SLAPEM. A partial list of members can be found at http://bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/slapem/members-slapem. Please contact our Membership Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to have your name included. This is an important step prior to organizing elections for the regional committee.
***Bernoulli Society on Twitter Bernoulli Society has launched its own Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We invite all BS members to follow us!
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***Statistics Conference for Aad Van der Vaart’s 60th Birthday June 17 - 21, 2019 Leiden, Netherlands http://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~schmidthieberaj/aadbirthday/index.html The conference is in honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th birthday. It will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.
***11th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) July 01 - 05, 2019 Zagreb, Croatia https://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/eva2019/ This workshop covers all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and its applications in climate and atmospheric science, industrial risks, geoscience, hydrology, finance, economics and insurance, biosciences, physics, telecommunications and stochastic networks.
***41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) July 08 - 12, 2019 Chicago, USA http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/SPA2019/ SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place.
***32nd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) 2019 July 22 - 26, 2019 Palermo, Italy http://www.ems2019.palermo.it/ The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. EMS is a conference where statisticians of all ages and from all regions meet to exchange ideas and talk about the newest developments on the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The conference is organized every other year.
***23rd Brazilian School of Probability (EBP) July 22 - 27, 2019 São Carlos, Brazil The XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade will be held at the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo. EBP is a traditional international event which has been running since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probability community. It represents a good opportunity for researchers and students from Brazil and abroad to interact in a very high scientific level and including the participation of some of the best world leaderships. The School aims at emphasizing and diffusing the new and more promising research lines in Probability and Stochastic Processes, as well as promoting new collaborations between the participants and opening new horizons to the young researchers.
***21st European Young Statisticians Meeting July 29 - August 02, 2019 Belgrade, Serbia http://www.eysm2019.matf.bg.ac.rs/ The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The idea of the meeting is to provide young researchers (less than thirty years of age or two to eight years of research experience) an introduction to the international scene within the broad subject area - from pure probability theory to applied statistics. ***62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 August 18 - 23, 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. During the congress, a Bernoulli General Assembly and a New Researchers’ reception will take place, where all members of BS are invited. We hope many BS members participate in the events.
***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) December 2 - 6, 2019 Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. The call for contributed sessions is now open, as well as nominations for the Francisco Arnada Prize.
***10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics August 17 - 21, 2020 Seoul, South Korea The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
Other Events
***Singapore-Abu Dhabi-Shanghai-India Probability Meeting (SASI) May 27 - 29, 2019 Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2019/prob/ The aim of the meeting is to bring together probability researchers from the Asia region, in particular from Singapore, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Shanghai, and India, to foster research collaborations and discussions amongst all on a regular basis. ***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) September 22 - 26, 2019 Hannover, Germany The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.
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* Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019. See https://professeurs.epfl.ch/fr/professorship-in-statistics-2/.
________________ Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH, Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg
* Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
* Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 37 September 2019 ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Contents:
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th. ________________________General News ***News from the General Assembly at ISI-WSC At the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, the Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointments: Claudia Klüppelberg (TU Munich) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society (with Adam Jakubowski (University of Torun) as President-Elect) and Song Xi Chen (Peking University) replaced Byeong U. Park as Scientific Secretary. We thank previous President Susan Murphy and previous Scientific Secretary Byeong U. Park for their dedicated service and steering of the society in the past years. Approved were also
Moreover, a new post "Publicity Secretary" on the Executive Committee and a new standing "Publicity Committee" was established with Victor Panaretos as chair. This gives the ad-hoc officer Publicity Chair (Victor Panaretos, since February 2018) its proper status. We thank Victor for his support in developing this important new committee. ***Newly elected SLAPEM Committee 2019-2021 Four new members of the Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society have been elected: Juan Carlos Abril (Argentina), Maria Eulalia Vares (Brazil), Richard Serrano-Agila (Ecuador) and Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (México). The elected new Chair of the Committee is Florencia Leonardi (Brazil). ***Mathias Drton wins the Ethel Newbold Prize 2019 During the ISI World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, the Ethel Newbold Prize winner (see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=207 for background on the prize), selected by the Prize Committee chaired by Eva b. Vedel Jensen, was announced to be Prof. Mathias Drton (U Washington, TU Munich). Congratulations! ***Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics 2022 Nominations for the prize are open now. The prize will be presented at the 2023 ISI World Statistics Congress. Nominations should include full name and email address of both the nominee(s) and nominator, as well as a pdf file of the published survey article in statistics. The nomination material should be emailed to Professor Qiwei Yao at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The nomination deadline is February 28th, 2021. ***Corina Constantinescu as Bernoulli Society Twitter Manager We are pleased to inform that Corina Constantinescu (University of Liverpool) is taking over as main responsible for the Bernoulli Society Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We encourage all BS members to follow the Bernoulli Society on Twitter! _________________Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society ***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) December 2 - 6, 2019 Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. ***Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry (Kendall’s 65th Birthday) December 9 - 10, 2019 University of Warwick, UK This two-day meeting will coincide with a celebration of Professor Wilfrid Kendall’s 65th birthday. It will bring together a group of academics working in areas of probability, statistics and theoretical computer science that make use of coupling arguments. In particular, the workshop will be of interest to those working on adaptive MCMC samplers, links between probability and geometry, statistical shape analysis, and perfect simulation algorithms. ***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC) August 17 - 21, 2020 Seoul, South Korea The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University. Other Events ***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) September 22 - 26, 2019 Hannover, Germany The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore. ***2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics (SWiM) Program The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute invites applications for its 2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics program. The purpose of this program is to provide space and funds to groups of women mathematicians to work on a research project at MSRI. Seehttps://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/summer-research-for-women-in-mathematics _________________Job Offers * Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/professorship-in-statistics/
* Professorship of Mathematics at University of Fribourg/Switzerland. Qualified applicants must have an outstanding track record in a field of mathematics with strong potential for applications, such as (but not limited to): PDE, dynamical systems, discrete mathematics, applied algebra, mathematical statistics, data science, numerical analysis, scientific computing. The closing date for applications is October 31st, 2019. See https://www3.unifr.ch/scimed/fr/faculty/positions/. * Assistant Professorship in Applied Mathematics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates whose research centers on the mathematical foundations of (statistical) learning are sought, in particular: high dimensional approximation theory, applied and/or computational harmonic analysis, nonparametric and/or high dimensional statistics, as well as non-convex and/or high dimensional continuous optimization. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/appliedmathematics/ * Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in analysis and/or geometry, broadly construed, are sought. Areas of interest include differential geometry, dynamical systems, geometric analysis, geometric flows, kinetic theory, multiscale analysis and homogenization, (stochastic) PDE. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/mathematics/ ________________Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications * Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg, Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH * Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 35 April 2019 ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ Contents:
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 30th. ________________________ General News
***Bernoulli Society Membership Renewal and Poster We would like to remind all our members to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership at www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. We would also like to encourage you to diffuse information about special offers and fee reductions available to prospective new members. One way is by printing the Bernoulli membership poster and post it in your department's corridor. You can download it from http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/BernoulliPoster2019.pdf. Thank you!
***New Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary Prof. Byeong Park will be stepping down as Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary following his election as Vice President of the ISI. We congratulate him and are very grateful to him for his service to the Bernoulli Society in this role. The Council has approved Prof. Song Xi Chen (Peking University, http://english.gsm.pku.edu.cn/faculty/en/csx.html ) to replace Prof. Park as Scientific Secretary. The new Scientific Secretary, if approved by the Bernoulli GA at the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur, will begin his term immediately after the WSC, completing Prof. Park's term which runs until the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (August 2020). At that point he can be reappointed for the regular four-year term.
***New Bernoulli Society Treasurer Lynne Billard will be stepping down at the end of this year from the position of Treasurer. The Bernoulli Society is grateful to her for her service! The Council has approved Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge,http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/ ) to succeed Prof. Billard as Treasurer. The new Treasurer will start his four-year term as of January 1, 2020, pending final approval by the Bernoulli Society GA during the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur.
***Short Course Program before WSC 2019 Prior to the World Statistics Congress 2019, a rich programme of short courses is being offered to participants. Have a look at http://www.isi2019.org/short-courses/
***Call for Interest in Hosting the Bernoulli-IMS 11th World Congress in 2024 There is a call for proposals to host the 2024 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Susan Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and cc'ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). The due date for bids is June 29, 2019.
***Book by Ole Barndorff-Nielsen The former President of the Bernoulli Society, Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen, has recently published a book "Stochastics in Science: Some autobiographical notes" (published Forlaget Morgenstjerne) which can be of great interest for our community. Summary: "The book gives a kaleidoscopic view of the life of a mathematical scientist. It aims to provide an impression of how multifaceted and fascinating such a life can be, in relation to other scientists. Much of the book can be read without any background knowledge of mathematics, but here and there brief indications of the author's own work are included at stepping stones in the narration. It contains a gallery of remarkable personalities and of historical accounts not available elsewhere. And the author's intense interest in Richard Wagner's operas occasionally shines through."
***Latin American Members (SLAPEM) Bernoulli Society members baring Latin American nationality or affiliation are also members of the SLAPEM. A partial list of members can be found at http://bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/slapem/members-slapem. Please contact our Membership Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to have your name included. This is an important step prior to organizing elections for the regional committee.
***Bernoulli Society on Twitter Bernoulli Society has launched its own Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We invite all BS members to follow us!
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***Statistics Conference for Aad Van der Vaart’s 60th Birthday June 17 - 21, 2019 Leiden, Netherlands http://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~schmidthieberaj/aadbirthday/index.html The conference is in honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th birthday. It will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.
***11th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) July 01 - 05, 2019 Zagreb, Croatia https://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/eva2019/ This workshop covers all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and its applications in climate and atmospheric science, industrial risks, geoscience, hydrology, finance, economics and insurance, biosciences, physics, telecommunications and stochastic networks.
***41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) July 08 - 12, 2019 Chicago, USA http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/SPA2019/ SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place.
***32nd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) 2019 July 22 - 26, 2019 Palermo, Italy http://www.ems2019.palermo.it/ The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. EMS is a conference where statisticians of all ages and from all regions meet to exchange ideas and talk about the newest developments on the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The conference is organized every other year.
***23rd Brazilian School of Probability (EBP) July 22 - 27, 2019 São Carlos, Brazil The XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade will be held at the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo. EBP is a traditional international event which has been running since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probability community. It represents a good opportunity for researchers and students from Brazil and abroad to interact in a very high scientific level and including the participation of some of the best world leaderships. The School aims at emphasizing and diffusing the new and more promising research lines in Probability and Stochastic Processes, as well as promoting new collaborations between the participants and opening new horizons to the young researchers.
***21st European Young Statisticians Meeting July 29 - August 02, 2019 Belgrade, Serbia http://www.eysm2019.matf.bg.ac.rs/ The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The idea of the meeting is to provide young researchers (less than thirty years of age or two to eight years of research experience) an introduction to the international scene within the broad subject area - from pure probability theory to applied statistics. ***62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 August 18 - 23, 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. During the congress, a Bernoulli General Assembly and a New Researchers’ reception will take place, where all members of BS are invited. We hope many BS members participate in the events.
***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) December 2 - 6, 2019 Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. The call for contributed sessions is now open, as well as nominations for the Francisco Arnada Prize.
***10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics August 17 - 21, 2020 Seoul, South Korea The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
Other Events
***Singapore-Abu Dhabi-Shanghai-India Probability Meeting (SASI) May 27 - 29, 2019 Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2019/prob/ The aim of the meeting is to bring together probability researchers from the Asia region, in particular from Singapore, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Shanghai, and India, to foster research collaborations and discussions amongst all on a regular basis. ***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) September 22 - 26, 2019 Hannover, Germany The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.
_________________ Job Offers
* Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019. See https://professeurs.epfl.ch/fr/professorship-in-statistics-2/.
________________ Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH, Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg
* Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
* Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo |