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e-BriefsBernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 21 September 2015 1. GENERAL NEWS For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Leonardo T. Rolla This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 31. 1. GENERAL NEWS * Au revoir from a Past-President Leo Rolla has kindly given me the opportunity to write a few words for e-Briefs 21 to mark the end of my term as Bernoulli President. It has been a great privilege to spend two years as Bernoulli President. The overwhelming impression left by this wonderful experience is, so many people work so hard for our community in various Bernoulli Society categories: thank you all! your work has been a real inspiration. Of course I remain involved for a further two years in the consulting rôle of Bernoulli Past-President; and I look forward very much to supporting the leadership of Bernoulli President Sara van de Geer and President-Elect Susan Murphy. Meanwhile it remains to say, see you all at the IMS - Bernoulli World Congress in Toronto, July 11-15, 2016, already entered in my diary and bookmarked in my web browser at http://goo.gl/YdjeOu. With warmest best wishes, Wilfrid Kendall. * New membership structure for Bernoulli Society The Bernoulli Society is introducing new membership structure which will replace the current one from year 2016. The new membership categories include: * Policy changes in Biometrika subscription for Bernoulli Society members From now on, members of the Bernoulli Society can get the corresponding discounted price directly from the publisher webpage at http://goo.gl/66jf9D. Therefore, no more orders or payments should be sent to the ISI/BS office. * Call for nominations for Doeblin Prize The Bernoulli Society welcomes nominations for the third Wolfgang Doeblin Prize for Outstanding Research in Probability, to be awarded at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto 2016. Each nomination should offer a brief case in support and should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 30. Founded in 2011, the prize is awarded bi-annually to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability theory, and who is at the beginning of their mathematical career. http://goo.gl/gAtuUf * Call for bids for European Meeting of Statisticians in 2019 The European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society invites bids to host the European Meeting of Statisticians in 2019. Each bid should be set to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by January 31. http://goo.gl/21XohK 2. PRIZES * Spinoza prize for Aad van der Vaart Aart van der Vaart is one of the four winners of the Spinoza Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The Award of 2.5 million euros is to be used to continue his scientific research and will be given during a ceremony on 14 September. http://goo.gl/BSlC98 3. EVENTS 3.1 - Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society * UK Easter Probability Meeting 2016, Lancaster, April 04-08 The UK Easter Probability Meeting is a long-standing tradition and is used to bring together the UK probability community. The aim is to discuss recent developments, to speak about future research and also to give PhD students an opportunity to become part of the UK probability community. Minicourses: Alice Guionnet, Michel Ledoux, Jason Miller, Vladas Sidoravicius. Confirmed speakers: Dmitry Belyaev, Noam Berger, Natasha Blitvic Erwin Bolthausen, Jon Keating, Kay Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Meckes, Anatoly Vershik, Fredrik Viklund. Registration to open soon. http://goo.gl/RdseLR * 4th Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Hong Kong, June 27-30 The fourth meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics meeting series, IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, will take place in Hong Kong during June 27-30, 2016. It will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. Deadline for session proposals: October 31. http://goo.gl/yZvgNA * 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto, July 11-15 The 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the it 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 take place in Toronto, during the week July 11-15, 2016. http://goo.gl/YdjeOu * Pre-meeting to the WCPS for Young Researchers, Toronto, July 7-8 A meeting preceding the The 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics will be hosted at the Fields Institute and will offer special lectures for young researchers with overarching theme "Big Data: Statistical, Computational and Mathematical Issues". Funding will be available for young researchers from developing countries to attend. * 61st World Statistics Congress, Marrakech, July 16-21, 2017 The 61st World Statistics Congress will take place in Marrakech, during the week July 16-21, 2017. http://goo.gl/W0p6IX * 39th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Moscow, July 24-28, 2017 The 39th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Moscow, during the week July 24-28, 2017. * 31st European Meeting of Statisticians, Helsinki, July 24-28, 2017 The 31st European Meeting of Statisticians will take place in Helsinki, during the week July 24-28, 2017. 3.2 - Other events * CRiSM Workshop Models and Inference in Population Genetics, Warwick, September 14–16 The aims of this workshop are to bring together researchers at the frontiers of probability and statistical inference in population genetics. The workshop is an expanded 2nd edition of a successful one-day event organised in 2012. Confirmed speakers: Ellen Baake, Mark Beaumont, Matthias Birkner, Jochen Blath, Maria De Iorio, Steve Evans, Bob Griffiths, Asger Hobolth, Carolin Kosiol, Noemi Kurt, Gerton Lunter, Simon Myers, Yun Song, Yee Whye Teh. http://goo.gl/8SeBvQ * Junior Female Researchers in Probability, Berlin, October 22-23 The goal of the workshop is to offer junior female researchers in stochastics a platform to talk about their own research work and to get acquainted with important research topics presented by well-established female researchers. Keynote Speakers: Kavita Ramanan, Nadia Sidorova. Invited Speakers: Christa Cuchiero, Hanna Döring, Zorana Grbac, Hao Wu. Deadline for registration: September 15. http://goo.gl/gizW6C * Analytical Methods in Statistics - AMISTAT 2015, Prague, November 10-13 The workshop is an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and to discuss topics on solved and unsolved problems of mathematical statistics, concerning the following subjects: Fisher information; parameter and function estimation; characterization problems; sufficiency, ancillarity and exponential families; generalized linear models; signal plus noise models; stochastic inequalities; asymptotics versus non-asymptotics; other related subjects of your recent interest. Main speakers: Abram M. Kagan, Ildar Ibragimov, Hira L. Koul, Sakhanenko Aleksandr Ivanovich, Winfried Stute, Alexander Goldenshluger. No conference fee is collected, but prior registration is desired. http://goo.gl/sqHZ4E * 21st Intl Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Queensland, November 29 - December 04 The Biannual MODSIM2015 congress of the Modelling and Simulations Society of Australia and New Zealand is to be held with the theme "partnering with industry and the community for innovation and impact through modelling". Expressions of Interest should include a title and summary for those who intend to submit a full paper or extended abstract for presentation at the conference. List of sessions available at the webpage. http://goo.gl/Ddy8q2 * 9th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC, Singapore, December 17-19 The IASC-ARS conference is the main conference organized by the Asian Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing. It is organized every two to four years for attendees to exchange and learn about the latest information in Statistical Computing with applications. The conference topic for 2015 is "Statistical Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data Era". http://goo.gl/5ut65t * 12th German Probability and Statistics Days, Bochum, March 01-04 The DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik organizes jointly with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum the 12th German Probability and Statistics Days 2016 Bochumer Stochastik-Tage. this meeting provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. Contributed talks will be given in 12 sections devoted to specific topics; the highlight of each section will be one invited main talk. Plenary speakers: Sandrine Dudoit, Laszlo Erdös, Martin Hairer, Iain Johnstone, Walter Schachermayer. Deadline for abstract submission: November 30. http://goo.gl/oQj5ul 4. JOB OFFERS Job offers can range from graduate scholarships to full Professor positions, in Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and related areas. Those who are aware of public calls for applications may send a contribution directly to the e-Briefs Editor. * Associate and Assistant Professor (tenure track), the University of Hong Kong Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, to commence on September 1, 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. These posts are tenure-track positions with consideration for tenure during the second three-year appointment. A globally competitive remuneration package commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered. Deadline: December 31. http://goo.gl/fkb3It * Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, at London The Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics of the University of Liverpool is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in the area of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics based at their London campus to lead on the development, recruitment and delivery of a taught postgraduate degree programme in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. Commencing salary around 50,000 to 62,000 GBP plus London weighting. Deadline: September 16. http://goo.gl/spVLrk 5. 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 and Statistics Surveys, as well as International Statistical Review. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 20 1. GENERAL NEWS For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Leonardo T. Rolla This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by August 31. 1. GENERAL NEWS * Bernoulli Society General Assembly The Bernoulli Society General Assembly will be held at the 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio Janeiro (see Events below) on Friday, July 30 at 12:30. You are warmly encouraged to attend! http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/statutes#ArticleIV * Evarist Giné-Masdéu (1944-2015) Evarist Giné-Masdéu passed away on the 13th of March in Hartford, Connecticut. He has been a main contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular in statistics and learning theory. Evarist was made a fellow of the IMS in 1984, elected member of the ISI in 1991, became a corresponding member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in 1996, and gave a Medallion lecture at the 2004 world congress of the Bernoulli society in Barcelona. A conference was held on the occasion of Evarist’s 70th birthday in June 2014 in Cambridge, UK, to honour his mathematical achievements. The great respect and admiration for his mathematics and his great personality were shared by the many friends and colleagues. That Evarist is gone leaves a great emptiness in the mathematical community. For those who knew him personally and worked with him, he will always remain a great friend with whom they spent endless hours talking mathematics at the board or in his warm and hospitable house.http://bulletin.imstat.org/2015/05/obituary-evarist-gine-masdeu-1944-2015/ * Wolfgang Doeblin Prize for Outstanding Research in Probability The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the third Wolfgang Doeblin Prize to be awarded at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto 2016. Each nomination should offer a brief case in support and should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 30. Founded in 2011, the prize is awarded bi-annually to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability theory, and who is at the beginning of their mathematical career. http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=158 * Next Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Processes and their Applications The Bernoulli Society has great pleasure in announcing that Professor Herold Dehling of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum will serve as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications, in succession to the current Editor-in-Chief, Professor Takashi Kumagai. Professor Dehling informs us that the effective date of handover will be April 1, 2015, and that his term of service concludes end March 31, 2018. We are extremely grateful to both these distinguished scientists for their tireless and influential service, both past, present and future. 2. PRIZES * Bernoulli Society Named Lectures for the World Congress at Toronto 2016 Bernoulli Society is pleased to announce the following named lecturers for the World Congress of Probability and Statistics at Toronto 2016: - Laplace Lecture: Byeong Park (Seoul National University, South Korea) The names were proposed by a special committee for Bernoulli invited lectures, and approved by Bernoulli Society Executive Committee. * Schramm Lecture 2017 Richard Kenyon (Brown University, USA) has accepted the invitation by IMS and Bernoulli to present this lecture at the Moscow SPA, which is scheduled for 24-28 July 2017. 3. EVENTS 3.1 - Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society * 30th European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam, July 6-10 The European Meeting of Statisticians is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. The program includes the Lectures by Peter Buehlmann, Gunnar Carlson, Lutz Duembgen, Gesine Reinert, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Gerard Ben Arous and Brian Caffo, as well as 25 invited sessions, 12 organised contributed sessions, about 200 contributed papers and a poster session. https://ems2015.nl/ * 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oxford, July 13-17 Organised under the auspices of the Bernouilli Society, this conference will bring together about 450 contributors, featuring topics ranging from representation theory, algebra and partial differential equations, through to data science, control theory and data assimilation. Plenary speakers: Alexei Borodin; Michael Cranston; Bénédicte Haas; Alan Hammond; Haya Kaspi; Michel Ledoux; Régine Marchand; Grégory Miermont; Jason Miller; Sandrine Péché; Christophe Sabot; Scott Sheffield; Andrew Stuart; Terence Tao; Augusto Teixeira; Boris Tsirelson. List of Invited Sessions at the webpage. Deadline for poster submission: June 12. http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/ * 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio Janeiro, July 26-31 The WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations. The congress will bring together members of the statistical community to present, discuss, promote and disseminate research and best practice in every field of Statistics and its applications. There are over 400 invited speakers, another 400 in special topic sessions. Full list of invited speakers and special sessions at the webpage. Registration is now open. Deadline for online registration fee: July 17. http://www.isi2015.org/ * Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 27 - August 07 Hosted by the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at the National University of Mongolia, the two-week research school will look at an extensive programme of classical and contemporary topics from the theory of stochastic analysis, as well as its applications. There will be an extensive exposition covering the insertion of stochastics into biology, economics, random matrix theory, optimal stopping and control, combinatorial models, self-similarity and of course SDEs and PDEs. http://smcs.num.edu.mn/saam2015/ * 19th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Prague, August 31 - September 04 The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. Every participant is expected to submit an abstract and a short paper for conference proceedings and to give a twenty minutes talk introducing his/her research field to a wide audience. There are no parallel sessions. Invited speakers: Irene Gijbels, Marie Hušková, Adam Jakubowski, Geurt Jongbloed and Thomas Mikosch. http://eysm2015.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/ 3.2 - Other events * 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, Istanbul, July 5-8 The Applied Probability Society is a subdivision of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The Society is concerned with the application of probability theory to systems that involve random phenomena. The 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference will take place on the campus of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Plenary Speakers: Halil Mete Soner, John N. Tsitsiklis, Kavita Ramanan. http://home.ku.edu.tr/~aps2015/ * Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, July 21-24 The workshop Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics is a satellite meeting of the XVIII International Congress on Mathematical Physics. The main focus of the workshop will be recent developments in probabilistic models arising from problems in mathematical physics. Confirmed speakers: Daniel Ahlberg, Louis-Pierre Arguin, Antonio Auffinger, Yuri Bakhtin, Paul Bourgade, Anton Bovier, Nicolas Curien, Davar Khoshnevisan, Brian Rider, Leonardo T. Rolla, Alexandre Stauffer, Maria E. Vares, Jun Yin, Ofer Zeitouni. http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/dmmp2015/ * XIX Brazilian School on Probability, Maresias, August 03-08 The Brazilian School of Probability has been organized each year since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probabilistic community and planned as a forum for the discussion of new ideas and developments in Probability and related areas. The school proceedings will be published in a special volume of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, an IMS supported journal. Registration is now open, and some support for PhD students and postdocs is available. Minicourses by Amaury Lambert and Ofer Zeitouni. Plenary Lectures: Augusto Teixeira, Daniel Valesin, David Belius, Eric Cator, Francis Comets, Iddo Ben Ari, Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, Nathanaël Berestycki, Pablo Groisman, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira, and Vladimir Vatutin. http://www.ime.usp.br/ebp/ebp19/ * CRiSM Workshop Models and Inference in Population Genetics, Warwick, September 14–16 The aims of this workshop are to bring together researchers at the frontiers of probability and statistical inference in population genetics. The workshop is an expanded 2nd edition of a successful one-day event organised in 2012. Confirmed speakers: Ellen Baake, Mark Beaumont, Matthias Birkner, Jochen Blath, Maria De Iorio, Steve Evans, Bob Griffiths, Asger Hobolth, Carolin Kosiol, Noemi Kurt, Gerton Lunter, Simon Myers, Yun Song, Yee Whye Teh. Deadline for poster submission: August 01. Deadline for registration: September 04. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/crism/workshops/populationgenetics * Analytical Methods in Statistics - AMISTAT 2015, Prague, November 10-13 The workshop is an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and to discuss topics on solved and unsolved problems of mathematical statistics, concerning the following subjects: Fisher information; parameter and function estimation; characterization problems; sufficiency, ancillarity and exponential families; generalized linear models; signal plus noise models; stochastic inequalities; asymptotics versus non-asymptotics; other related subjects of your recent interest. Main speakers: Abram M. Kagan, Ildar Ibragimov, Hira L. Koul, Sakhanenko Aleksandr Ivanovich, Winfried Stute, Alexander Goldenshluger. No conference fee is collected, but prior registration is desired. Deadline for registration and abstracts: September 01. http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~amistat2015/ * 21st Intl Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Queensland, November 29 - December 04 The Biannual MODSIM2015 congress of the Modelling and Simulations Society of Australia and New Zealand is to be held with the theme "partnering with industry and the community for innovation and impact through modelling". Expressions of Interest should include a title and summary for those who intend to submit a full paper or extended abstract for presentation at the conference. List of sessions available at the webpage. Deadline for early bird registration: August 28. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2015/ 4. JOB OFFERS We are pleased to inaugurate a section with job offers, which can range from graduate scholarships to Full Professor positions, in Probability, Statistics, Theoretical Physics, and Mathematics. Those who are aware of public calls for applications may send a contribution directly to the editor. * Global Platform Recruitment for Research Leaders, Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University is creating around 20 additional professorial and other academic posts per year, over the next 5 years, across a range of disciplines, continuing growth at Heriot-Watt’s international campuses in Edinburgh, Galashiels, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia. Positions range from Assistant Professor to Full Professor, salary ranges around 30,000 to 56,000 GBP. http://www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders * Associate and Assistant Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil The Statistics Department has tenured positions of Associate and Assistant Professor, for candidates with demonstrated capacity for independent research. Commencing salary around 130,000 BRL for Assistant Professors. http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~popov/position.pdf * Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen The Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is looking for an an internationally renowned researcher at a very high level, expert in Statistics or Probability Theory. Commencing salary around 444,000 DKK. Deadline: September 25. http://www.math.ku.dk/english/about/jobs/sandsynlighedsregning/ * Lecturer, University of Liverpool The Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics of the University of Liverpool is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in the area of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. The position may be taken on a Part-Time or Full-Time basis, including a Job Share. Commencing salary around 32,000 to 49,000 GBP. Deadline: July 01. http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/academic/a-588060/ * Postdoctorate, University of Buenos Aires Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions in Percolation, Particle Systems, and Stochastic Networks. The positions last two years and have a monthly stipend of around 14,000 ARS, to start in April 2016. Deadline: June 15. http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/ * Graduate student, Maxwell Institute, Edinburgh The Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis and its Applications offers a fully-funded 4-year PhD to students interested in Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Applicants should be in the final year of their undergraduate degree, or working to complete an appropriate MSc programme. Applications are considered as they are received, and anyone interested should apply as soon as possible, noting the EPSRC eligibility conditions. http://www.maxwell.ac.uk/migsaa/ 5. RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044149 * Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publicationsfor the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys and Statistics Surveys. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 19 1. GENERAL NEWS For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Leonardo T. Rolla This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 31. 1. GENERAL NEWS * New Scientific Secretary Prof. Nakahiro Yoshida is stepping down as Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary from the end of March 2015. We are very grateful to him for his service to Bernoulli Society in this role since 2009, and we will miss him! Council has approved the President and President-Elect's nomination of Prof. Byeong Park http://oldstat.snu.ac.kr/theostat/bupark.htm to replace Prof. Yoshida as Scientific Secretary. Prof. Yoshida has kindly agreed to help during a handover period up to Rio 2015. * New members of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society The European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society is pleased to announce the following new members, whose terms began on January 01, 2015: Jesus Lopez Fidalgo (Spain), Nial Friel (Ireland), Maria Karlsson (Sweden), Jan Mielniczuk (Poland), Richard Nickl (UK) Mihael Perman (Slovenia), Monica Pratesi (Italy) and Sylvain Sardy (Switzerland). We take this opportunity to thank the following retiring members of the committee: Pier Luigi Conti, Daniel Hlubinka, Teresa Ledwina, Havard Rue, Alexandre Tsybakov, Eugenia Stoimenova and Vladimir Vatutin. 2. EVENTS 2.1 - Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society * 9th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Ann Arbor, USA, June 15-19 The 9th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis will feature recent research on the probability and statistics of extreme value phenomena and applications to: climate and weather; finance; insurance; engineering and computer science. http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eva2015/ * 30th European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam, July 6-10 The European Meeting of Statisticians is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. The program includes the Lectures by Peter Buehlmann, Gunnar Carlson, Lutz Duembgen, Gesine Reinert, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Gerard Ben Arous and Brian Caffo, as well as 25 invited sessions, 12 organised contributed sessions, about 200 contributed papers and a poster session. Deadline for registration: June 01. https://ems2015.nl/ * 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oxford, July 13-17 Hosted by the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, the Mathematical Institute and the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and organised under the auspices of the Bernouilli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, this conference will bring together about 450 contributors, featuring topics ranging from representation theory, algebra and partial differential equations, through to data science, control theory and data assimilation. Participants are encouraged to contribute through poster sessions, talks and informal conversations. Plenary speakers: Alexei Borodin; Michael Cranston; Bénédicte Haas; Alan Hammond; Haya Kaspi; Michel Ledoux; Régine Marchand; Grégory Miermont; Jason Miller; Sandrine Péché; Christophe Sabot; Scott Sheffield; Andrew Stuart; Terence Tao; Augusto Teixeira; Boris Tsirelson. List of Invited Sessions at the webpage. Deadline for contributed talks and posters: April 18. Deadline for early bird registration fee: April 30. http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/ * 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio Janeiro, July 26-31 The WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations. The congress will bring together members of the statistical community to present, discuss, promote and disseminate research and best practice in every field of Statistics and its applications. There are over 400 invited speakers, another 400 in special topic sessions. Full list of invited speakers and special sessions at the webpage. Registration is now open. Deadline for early-bird registration fee: April 17. http://www.isi2015.org/ * Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 27 - August 07 Hosted by the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at the National University of Mongolia, the two-week research school will look at an extensive programme of classical and contemporary topics from the theory of stochastic analysis, as well as its applications. There will be an extensive exposition covering the insertion of stochastics into biology, economics, random matrix theory, optimal stopping and control, combinatorial models, self-similarity and of course SDEs and PDEs. Deadline for registration: May 10. http://smcs.num.edu.mn/saam2015/ * 19th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Prague, August 31 - September 04 The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. Every participant is expected to submit an abstract and a short paper for conference proceedings and to give a twenty minutes talk introducing his/her research field to a wide audience. There are no parallel sessions. Invited speakers: Irene Gijbels, Marie Hušková, Adam Jakubowski, Geurt Jongbloed and Thomas Mikosch. Deadline for registration and paper submission: April 15. http://eysm2015.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/ 2.2 - Other events * Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, July 21-24 The workshop Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics is a satellite meeting of the XVIII International Congress on Mathematical Physics. The main focus of the workshop will be recent developments in probabilistic models arising from problems in mathematical physics. Confirmed spekers: Daniel Ahlberg, Louis-Pierre Arguin, Antonio Auffinger, Yuri Bakhtin, Paul Bourgade, Anton Bovier, Nicolas Curien, Davar Khoshnevisan, Brian Rider, Leonardo Rolla, Alexandre Stauffer, Maria Eulália Vares, Jun Yin, Ofer Zeitouni. http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/dmmp2015/ * XIX Brazilian School on Probability, Maresias, August 03-08 The Brazilian School of Probability has been organized each year since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probabilistic community and planned as a forum for the discussion of new ideas and developments in Probability and related areas. The school proceedings will be published in a special volume of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, an IMS supported journal. Registration is now open, and some support for PhD students and Post-Docs is available. Minicourses by Amaury Lamber and Ofer Zeitouni. Plenary Lectures: Augusto Teixeira, Daniel Valesin, David Belius, Eric Cator, Francis Comets, Iddo Ben Ari, Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, Nathanaël Berestycki, Pablo Groisman, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira, and Vladimir Vatutin. http://www.ime.usp.br/ebp/ebp19/ * Analytical Methods in Statistics - AMISTAT 2015, Prague, November 10-13 The workshop is an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and to discuss topics on solved and unsolved problems of mathematical statistics, concerning the following subjects: Fisher information; parameter and function estimation; characterization problems; sufficiency, ancillarity and exponential families; generalized linear models; signal plus noise models; stochastic inequalities; asymptotics versus non-asymptotics; other related subjects of your recent interest. Main speakers: Abram M. Kagan, Ildar Ibragimov, Hira L. Koul, Sakhanenko Aleksandr Ivanovich, Winfried Stute, Alexander Goldenshluger. No conference fee is collected, but prior registration is desired. http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~amistat2015/ * 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Queensland, Australia, November 29 - December 04 The Biannual MODSIM2015 congress of the Modelling and Simulations Society of Australia and New Zealand is to be held with the theme "partnering with industry and the community for innovation and impact through modelling". Expressions of Interest should include a title and summary for those who intend to submit a full paper or extended abstract for presentation at the conference. List of sessions available at the webpage. Deadline for proposing a talk: April 10. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2015/ 3. PRIZES * Han Liu receives 2015 Tweedie Award The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year's Tweedie New Researcher Award. The IMS Travel Awards Committee, selected Dr. Liu, "for fundamental and outstanding contributions to the theory and methods of nonparametric and semiparametric graphical models, with innovative applications in brain science and genomics." 4. THE WORLD OF STATISTICS The World of Statistics -the successor to the highly successful International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) campaign celebrated in 2013- is a global network of nearly 2,360 organizations worldwide committed to: - Increasing public awareness of the power and impact of statistics on all aspects of society Participating organizations in The World of Statistics include national and international professional statistical societies, colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, businesses, government statistical agencies, and research institutes. These organizations are located in 131 countries spanning the globe. Last newsletter: http://www.worldofstatistics.org/files/2015/03/March-23-2015.pdf Webpage: http://www.worldofstatistics.org/ 5. RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Stochastic Processes and their Applications 125 (4-7) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044149 * Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys and Statistics Surveys. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 20 1. GENERAL NEWS For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Leonardo T. Rolla This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by August 31. 1. GENERAL NEWS * Bernoulli Society General Assembly The Bernoulli Society General Assembly will be held at the 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio Janeiro (see Events below) on Friday, July 30 at 12:30. You are warmly encouraged to attend! http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/statutes#ArticleIV * Evarist Giné-Masdéu (1944-2015) Evarist Giné-Masdéu passed away on the 13th of March in Hartford, Connecticut. He has been a main contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular in statistics and learning theory. Evarist was made a fellow of the IMS in 1984, elected member of the ISI in 1991, became a corresponding member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in 1996, and gave a Medallion lecture at the 2004 world congress of the Bernoulli society in Barcelona. A conference was held on the occasion of Evarist’s 70th birthday in June 2014 in Cambridge, UK, to honour his mathematical achievements. The great respect and admiration for his mathematics and his great personality were shared by the many friends and colleagues. That Evarist is gone leaves a great emptiness in the mathematical community. For those who knew him personally and worked with him, he will always remain a great friend with whom they spent endless hours talking mathematics at the board or in his warm and hospitable house.http://bulletin.imstat.org/2015/05/obituary-evarist-gine-masdeu-1944-2015/ * Wolfgang Doeblin Prize for Outstanding Research in Probability The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the third Wolfgang Doeblin Prize to be awarded at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto 2016. Each nomination should offer a brief case in support and should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 30. Founded in 2011, the prize is awarded bi-annually to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability theory, and who is at the beginning of their mathematical career. http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=158 * Next Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Processes and their Applications The Bernoulli Society has great pleasure in announcing that Professor Herold Dehling of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum will serve as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications, in succession to the current Editor-in-Chief, Professor Takashi Kumagai. Professor Dehling informs us that the effective date of handover will be April 1, 2015, and that his term of service concludes end March 31, 2018. We are extremely grateful to both these distinguished scientists for their tireless and influential service, both past, present and future. 2. PRIZES * Bernoulli Society Named Lectures for the World Congress at Toronto 2016 Bernoulli Society is pleased to announce the following named lecturers for the World Congress of Probability and Statistics at Toronto 2016: - Laplace Lecture: Byeong Park (Seoul National University, South Korea) The names were proposed by a special committee for Bernoulli invited lectures, and approved by Bernoulli Society Executive Committee. * Schramm Lecture 2017 Richard Kenyon (Brown University, USA) has accepted the invitation by IMS and Bernoulli to present this lecture at the Moscow SPA, which is scheduled for 24-28 July 2017. 3. EVENTS 3.1 - Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society * 30th European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam, July 6-10 The European Meeting of Statisticians is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. The program includes the Lectures by Peter Buehlmann, Gunnar Carlson, Lutz Duembgen, Gesine Reinert, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Gerard Ben Arous and Brian Caffo, as well as 25 invited sessions, 12 organised contributed sessions, about 200 contributed papers and a poster session. https://ems2015.nl/ * 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oxford, July 13-17 Organised under the auspices of the Bernouilli Society, this conference will bring together about 450 contributors, featuring topics ranging from representation theory, algebra and partial differential equations, through to data science, control theory and data assimilation. Plenary speakers: Alexei Borodin; Michael Cranston; Bénédicte Haas; Alan Hammond; Haya Kaspi; Michel Ledoux; Régine Marchand; Grégory Miermont; Jason Miller; Sandrine Péché; Christophe Sabot; Scott Sheffield; Andrew Stuart; Terence Tao; Augusto Teixeira; Boris Tsirelson. List of Invited Sessions at the webpage. Deadline for poster submission: June 12. http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/ * 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio Janeiro, July 26-31 The WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations. The congress will bring together members of the statistical community to present, discuss, promote and disseminate research and best practice in every field of Statistics and its applications. There are over 400 invited speakers, another 400 in special topic sessions. Full list of invited speakers and special sessions at the webpage. Registration is now open. Deadline for online registration fee: July 17. http://www.isi2015.org/ * Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 27 - August 07 Hosted by the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at the National University of Mongolia, the two-week research school will look at an extensive programme of classical and contemporary topics from the theory of stochastic analysis, as well as its applications. There will be an extensive exposition covering the insertion of stochastics into biology, economics, random matrix theory, optimal stopping and control, combinatorial models, self-similarity and of course SDEs and PDEs. http://smcs.num.edu.mn/saam2015/ * 19th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Prague, August 31 - September 04 The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. Every participant is expected to submit an abstract and a short paper for conference proceedings and to give a twenty minutes talk introducing his/her research field to a wide audience. There are no parallel sessions. Invited speakers: Irene Gijbels, Marie Hušková, Adam Jakubowski, Geurt Jongbloed and Thomas Mikosch. http://eysm2015.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/ 3.2 - Other events * 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, Istanbul, July 5-8 The Applied Probability Society is a subdivision of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The Society is concerned with the application of probability theory to systems that involve random phenomena. The 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference will take place on the campus of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Plenary Speakers: Halil Mete Soner, John N. Tsitsiklis, Kavita Ramanan. http://home.ku.edu.tr/~aps2015/ * Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, July 21-24 The workshop Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics is a satellite meeting of the XVIII International Congress on Mathematical Physics. The main focus of the workshop will be recent developments in probabilistic models arising from problems in mathematical physics. Confirmed speakers: Daniel Ahlberg, Louis-Pierre Arguin, Antonio Auffinger, Yuri Bakhtin, Paul Bourgade, Anton Bovier, Nicolas Curien, Davar Khoshnevisan, Brian Rider, Leonardo T. Rolla, Alexandre Stauffer, Maria E. Vares, Jun Yin, Ofer Zeitouni. http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/dmmp2015/ * XIX Brazilian School on Probability, Maresias, August 03-08 The Brazilian School of Probability has been organized each year since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probabilistic community and planned as a forum for the discussion of new ideas and developments in Probability and related areas. The school proceedings will be published in a special volume of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, an IMS supported journal. Registration is now open, and some support for PhD students and postdocs is available. Minicourses by Amaury Lambert and Ofer Zeitouni. Plenary Lectures: Augusto Teixeira, Daniel Valesin, David Belius, Eric Cator, Francis Comets, Iddo Ben Ari, Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, Nathanaël Berestycki, Pablo Groisman, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira, and Vladimir Vatutin. http://www.ime.usp.br/ebp/ebp19/ * CRiSM Workshop Models and Inference in Population Genetics, Warwick, September 14–16 The aims of this workshop are to bring together researchers at the frontiers of probability and statistical inference in population genetics. The workshop is an expanded 2nd edition of a successful one-day event organised in 2012. Confirmed speakers: Ellen Baake, Mark Beaumont, Matthias Birkner, Jochen Blath, Maria De Iorio, Steve Evans, Bob Griffiths, Asger Hobolth, Carolin Kosiol, Noemi Kurt, Gerton Lunter, Simon Myers, Yun Song, Yee Whye Teh. Deadline for poster submission: August 01. Deadline for registration: September 04. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/crism/workshops/populationgenetics * Analytical Methods in Statistics - AMISTAT 2015, Prague, November 10-13 The workshop is an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and to discuss topics on solved and unsolved problems of mathematical statistics, concerning the following subjects: Fisher information; parameter and function estimation; characterization problems; sufficiency, ancillarity and exponential families; generalized linear models; signal plus noise models; stochastic inequalities; asymptotics versus non-asymptotics; other related subjects of your recent interest. Main speakers: Abram M. Kagan, Ildar Ibragimov, Hira L. Koul, Sakhanenko Aleksandr Ivanovich, Winfried Stute, Alexander Goldenshluger. No conference fee is collected, but prior registration is desired. Deadline for registration and abstracts: September 01. http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~amistat2015/ * 21st Intl Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Queensland, November 29 - December 04 The Biannual MODSIM2015 congress of the Modelling and Simulations Society of Australia and New Zealand is to be held with the theme "partnering with industry and the community for innovation and impact through modelling". Expressions of Interest should include a title and summary for those who intend to submit a full paper or extended abstract for presentation at the conference. List of sessions available at the webpage. Deadline for early bird registration: August 28. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2015/ 4. JOB OFFERS We are pleased to inaugurate a section with job offers, which can range from graduate scholarships to Full Professor positions, in Probability, Statistics, Theoretical Physics, and Mathematics. Those who are aware of public calls for applications may send a contribution directly to the editor. * Global Platform Recruitment for Research Leaders, Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University is creating around 20 additional professorial and other academic posts per year, over the next 5 years, across a range of disciplines, continuing growth at Heriot-Watt’s international campuses in Edinburgh, Galashiels, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia. Positions range from Assistant Professor to Full Professor, salary ranges around 30,000 to 56,000 GBP. http://www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders * Associate and Assistant Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil The Statistics Department has tenured positions of Associate and Assistant Professor, for candidates with demonstrated capacity for independent research. Commencing salary around 130,000 BRL for Assistant Professors. http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~popov/position.pdf * Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen The Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is looking for an an internationally renowned researcher at a very high level, expert in Statistics or Probability Theory. Commencing salary around 444,000 DKK. Deadline: September 25. http://www.math.ku.dk/english/about/jobs/sandsynlighedsregning/ * Lecturer, University of Liverpool The Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics of the University of Liverpool is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in the area of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. The position may be taken on a Part-Time or Full-Time basis, including a Job Share. Commencing salary around 32,000 to 49,000 GBP. Deadline: July 01. http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/academic/a-588060/ * Postdoctorate, University of Buenos Aires Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions in Percolation, Particle Systems, and Stochastic Networks. The positions last two years and have a monthly stipend of around 14,000 ARS, to start in April 2016. Deadline: June 15. http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/ * Graduate student, Maxwell Institute, Edinburgh The Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis and its Applications offers a fully-funded 4-year PhD to students interested in Probability and Stochastic Analysis. Applicants should be in the final year of their undergraduate degree, or working to complete an appropriate MSc programme. Applications are considered as they are received, and anyone interested should apply as soon as possible, noting the EPSRC eligibility conditions. http://www.maxwell.ac.uk/migsaa/ 5. RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044149 * Co-sponsored publications Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publicationsfor the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys and Statistics Surveys. * Bernoulli News Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 18
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