Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs issue 18

 

1. GENERAL NEWS
2. EVENTS
3. PRIZES
4. RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

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 March 31.

1. GENERAL NEWS

* Bernoulli Society Lectures for the World Congress at Toronto 2016

Special lectures for the World Congress of Probability are confirmed. See section Prizes below.

 

* New President-Elect and new Council members

Susan Murphy (USA) has been elected as Bernoulli Society President (commencing in August 2017) in succession to the next President Sara van de Geer.

There will be six vacancies on Council, all arising from end of term of office in 2015. The following have been elected as the Bernoulli Society Council members 2015-2019: Arup Bose (India), Valerie Susan Isham (UK); Victor Rivero (Mexico); Akira Sakai (Japan); Lorenzo Zambotti (France); Johanna Ziegel (Switzerland).

 

* New Bernoulli News Editor

Victor Panaretos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is coming to the end of his second term as Bernoulli News editor, and will be succeeded by Miguel de Carvalho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. They will collaborate on the May 15 issue of Bernoulli News, after which Miguel will be sole editor. Bernoulli Society is extremely grateful to Victor for his energetic service as editor, and to Miguel for agreeing to take over this very important role. We are glad to report that Victor remains involved in Bernoulli Society, as he is a member of the Bernoulli Society Publications Committee.

 

* New Editor-in-Chief for Stochastic Processes and their Applications

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. Prof 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. EVENTS

2.1 - Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society

* 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oxford, July 13-17 2015

The 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Oxford from the 13th to the 17th July 2015. The conference is hosted by the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, the Mathematical Institute and the Department of Statistics, and organised under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.

http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/

 

* European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam, July 6-10 2015

The 30th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. It is organized in a roughly two-yearly schedule and is sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The program consists of invited and contributed lectures, and posters, addressing a full range of subjects in statistics and its many applications.

https://ems2015.nl/

 

* 60th ISI World Statistics Conference 2015, Rio Janeiro, July 26-31 2015

The 60th ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 26–31 July 2015. The WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations, a biennial conference with a rich tradition.

http://www.isi2015.org/

 

* Extreme Value Analysis, Ann Arbor, June 15-19 2015

The 9th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis will take place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. It will feature recent research on the probability and statistics of extreme value phenomena and its important applications to: climate and weather; finance; insurance; engineering and computer science.

http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eva2015/

 

* Limit Theorems in Probability, Imperial College, London, March 23-26 2015

Conference in honour of N.H. Bingham's 70th birthday, to take place at Imperial College, London. Organised by Charles Goldie, Alex Mijatovic and Rüdiger Kiesel under the auspices of the Imperial Probability Centre, sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and supported by the London Mathematical Society and the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College. The meeting will seize the opportunity to enlist the participation of probabilists in a meeting on a broad topic of central importance in the subject. A Festschrift to be published as a special volume of Advances in Applied Probability is planned. Registration is now open, and some support for PhD students is available. See the webpage for registration and list of confirmed speakers.

http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~amijatov/IP/LimitTheorems/LTP.html

 2.2 - Other events

* Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics, Valparaiso, July 21-24 2015

The workshop Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics will take place in, Valparaiso, Chile. This is a satellite meeting of the International Congress on Mathematical Physics.

http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/dmmp2015/

 3. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Society Lectures for the World Congress at Toronto 2016

We are delighted to announce the Bernoulli Society special lectures for the World Congress of Probability and Statistics at Toronto 2016.
- Laplace Lecture: Byeong Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Bernoulli Lecture: Valerie Isham (University College London, UK)
- Kolmogorov Lecture: Ruth Williams (UC San Diego, USA)
- Lévy Lecture: Servet Martinez (Universidad de Chile)
The names were proposed by a special committee for Bernoulli invited lectures, and approved by Bernoulli Society Executive Committee.

 

* Itô Prize 2015

Bernoulli Society is pleased to announce that the Itô Prize committee (consisting of the SPA Editorial Board, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief Takashi Kumagai) has selected the following paper to receive the Itô Prize 2015:

Francis Comets and Michael Cranston
Overlaps and pathwise localization in the Anderson polymer model. SPA 123 (2013), 2446-2471.

The prize is generously funded by Elsevier and is awarded by the Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications (an official journal of the Bernoulli Society). Details of the prize are given at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=157. The prize will be presented by an Elsevier representative, and a corresponding talk will be given, at the Oxford SPA conference 13-17 July 2015 http://spa2015.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/.

 

* Francisco Aranda Ordaz Prize 2014

It is a great pleasure to announce the two winners of the Francisco Aranda Ordaz prize for 2014 http://www.clapem.unal.edu.co/index.php?id=145. This prize is awarded every two or three years to two researchers from Latin America for PhD theses in Statistics and Probability. The prize winners this year are: in Statistics, Alejandro Cholaquidis, from Universidad de la República de Uruguay; in Probability, Julián Martinez, Universiteit Leiden.

 4. RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society

SPA 125 (2-3) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044149
Bernoulli 20 (4) http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-journal/bernoulli-journal

 

* Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist. Surveys.

 

* Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news

 

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 16

CONTENTS

1.- GENERAL NEWS

2 - EVENTS

3 - RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue please contact

Dario Spanò (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by September 15, 2014.

1- GENERAL NEWS

* Website for the Centennial of Kiyosi Itô

         2015 is the centennial of the birth of Kiyosi Itô. To celebrate
this anniversary, the Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) and RIMS,
Kyoto University have created the following special website:

         http://mathsoc.jp/meeting/ito100/index.html

         This website contains open access to unpublished lecture notes
by Kiyosi Itô, the collection of papers dedicated to Itô on his 80th
birthday, and a list of Itô’s works and links to his papers. The website
will also announce information about events related to the centennial.

*  SPA Special Volume in honour of E. Giné.

         The journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications will
publish a special volume in honor of Professor Evarist Giné. It will be
based on contributions to the conference
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~nickl/Site/2014.html which will take
place on the occasion of Prof. Giné's 70th birthday and gather
specialists in fields ranging from probability in Banach spaces,
empirical, chaos- and U- process theory to mathematical and
nonparametric statistics. Tentative guest editors: Sara van de Geer,
Vladimir Koltchinskii, Richard Nickl, and Jon Wellner. Elsevier will
grant free perpetual access to the special volume since its publication.

* Bernoulli Journal and IMS.

         The agreement between the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(IMS) for publication and subscription services for the Bernoulli
Journal has been renewed for three years, starting January 1st, 2015.

* Bernoulli Society appoints Doob and Schramm lecturers for 2016.

         The Doob and Schramm lecturers for 2016, who will present their
lectures at the IMS / Bernoulli World Congress of Probability and
Statistics (Toronto, July 11-15, 2016), have now been appointed jointly
by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society.
They are:

         Schramm Lecturer: Ofer Zeitouni

         Doob Lecturer: Scott Sheffield

         For further details about these lectures, see
http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/lecture-selection-committee.

2 -  EVENTS

2.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

* 37th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, from July 28 to August 1, 2014.
http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/

         -The publishing company Elsevier and the journal Stochastic
Processes and Their Applications sponsor the conference with four
Elsevier Travel Grants worth 500 Euros each. The grants will be awarded
to the following junior researchers:  Loren Coquille (Bonn),  Sandro
Gallo (Rio de Janeiro),  Adriana Neumann de Oliveira (Porto Alegre),
Marielle Simon (Lyon). Congratulations to the winners !!- Plenary
speakers: Anton Bovier, Ivan Corwin, Laszlo Erdös, Antonio Galves,
Christophe Garban, Martin Hairer (Lévy Lecture), Milton Jara, Gady
Kozma, Eyal Lubetzky, Sylvie Méléard, David Nualart (IMS Medallion
Lecture), Felix Otto, Tomohiro Sasamoto, Scott Sheffield, Fabio
Toninelli, Balint Tóth, and a Doeblin Prize Lecture to be announced.

-
List of recommended hotels  and list of contributed sessions now
available on the conference website http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/.

* Third IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings, Howard International House,
Taipei, Taiwan, June 30 - July 3, 2014. http://www.ims-aprm2014.tw .

         - This meeting series provides an excellent forum for
scientific communications between the researchers in this area and those
from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics
in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the
state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications.

         Plenary speakers Jianqing Fan (Princeton) and Persi diaconis
(Stanford)

         Preliminary programme and list of speakersProgramme now
available available at http://www.ims-aprm2014.tw/Program.php

* UK Probability, Imperial College London, 15-19 September 2014.

         - Registration is now open via the conference website:

         http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~amijatov/IP/EPM2014/EPM.html

         - Support for PhD students will be available. Details on how to
apply can be found on the conference website (deadline 31 July 2014).

         - The meeting will include mini-courses by Burdzy (Washington),
Roberts (Warwick) and Schachermayer (Vienna) and a number of invited
one-hour talks.

          -List of confirmed invited speakers available at the
conference’s website.

         http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~amijatov/IP/EPM2014/EPM.html

* ISI – World Bank CLAPEM Latin American Congress of Probability and
Mathematical Statistics, September 22-26, 2014, in Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia from September 22 to 26, 2014, sponsored by the Bernoulli
Society. Full details and programme available at
http://www.clapem.unal.edu.co/index.php?id=97

* European Meeting of Statisticians 2015, July 6-10 in Amsterdam, NL.
http://www.ems2015.nl/

         The EMS is the main conference in statistics and probability in
Europe. It is organized in a roughly two-yearly schedule and is
sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society.

-       Early bird registration deadline: April 1, 2015.
-       Deadline for submitting contributed papers/posters: February 1, 2015

         - Besides an individual contributed paper any participant may
propose an organized contributed session. Deadline for submission of
proposal: December 1, 2014. Detail on proposal submission available at
http://www.ems2015.nl/

* 9th World Congress on Probability and Statistics, July 11–15, 2016 in
Toronto, Canada.

         The WCPS congresses are held every four years, and are jointly
sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS. The Toronto congress
will be hosted through the Fields Institute, with Alison Etheridge
(Oxford) as Scientific Programme Chair and Tom Salisbury (York) as local
chair. For further information see
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/16-17/WC2016/

2.2- Other events

* Australian Statistical Conference in Conjunction with the IMS Annual
Meeting, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, July 7-10, 2014.

             -       List of keynote speakers and more info available at
http://www.ims-asc2014.com/

* 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, Centre for
Statistics, Georg-August-Universitaat Goettingen, July 14-18, 2014.
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

* 2015 ISI World Statistics Congress, July 27-31, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil), http://www.isi2015.org/

         - Deadline for submitting contributed papers: 13 February 2015.


5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND

    SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:



      - BERNOULLI 20 (1-3)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

      - SPA 124 (5-9) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

* Co-sponsored open access publications:

      Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab.
Surveys and Statist Surveys at
http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications

* Latest issue of Bernoulli News:
http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/14a/Bernoulli_News_21-1.pdf

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 17

CONTENTS

1 - GENERAL NEWS

2 - EVENTS

3 - PRIZES

4 - RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

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 15 Jan 2015.

1- GENERAL NEWS

* New EBriefs editor.

It has been a pleasure to serve as EBriefs bulletin editor for the last three years. I would like to thank all the Bernoulli Society members (and especially Maria Eulália Vares, Wilfrid Kendall and Edward Waymire) for the kindness and promptness in providing information, help and support during the entire term. I am pleased to welcome Leonardo Rolla who has co-edited the present issue and will take over the role of Bernoulli EBrief editor starting from issue 18. I am sure Leonardo will do a great job for the next term !

* New editorships.

Both IMS and Bernoulli Councils have confirmed that the following editorships are appointed for three-year terms from the beginning of 2015. In the case of Djalil Chafaï this is a further three-year term continuing the present term of service. Bernoulli Society is extremely grateful to these people for the strategically important service they are willingly offering:

Ben Hambly (Probability Surveys);

Brian Rider (Electronic Journal of Probability);

Sandrine Péché (Electronic Communications in Probability);

Djalil Chafaï (managing editor of EJP/ECP).

We are also very grateful to the outgoing editors of Probability Surveys, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Communications in Probability; namely Laurent Saloff-Coste, Michel Ledoux, and Anton Bovier.

2 -  EVENTS

2.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

* 9^th International conference on Extreme Value Analysis, June 15-19, 2015 in Ann Arbor. http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eva2015

- The 9th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis will feature recent research on probability and statistics of extreme value phenomena and its important applications to: climate and weather, finance, insurance, engineering and computer science. All students, researchers, practitioners, and scientists with interests in statistics of extremes are welcome to EVA in Ann Arbor!

- Deadline for abstract submission: February 27, 2015

* European Meeting of Statisticians 2015, July 6-10 in Amsterdam, NL. http://www.ems2015.nl

The EMS is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. It is organized in a roughly two-yearly schedule and is sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society.

-          Early bird registration deadline: April 1, 2015.

-          Deadline for submitting contributed papers/posters: February 1, 2015

- Besides an individual contributed paper any participant may propose an organized contributed session. Deadline for submission of proposal: December 1, 2014. Detail on proposal submission available at http://www.ems2015.nl

* 9th World Congress on Probability and Statistics, July 11–15, 2016 in Toronto, Canada.

The WCPS congresses are held every four years, and are jointly sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS. The Toronto congress will be hosted through the Fields Institute, with Alison Etheridge (Oxford) as Scientific Programme Chair and Tom Salisbury (York) as local chair. For further information see www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/16-17/WC2016/

2.2- Other events

* 2015 ISI World Statistics Congress, July 27-31, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), http://www.isi2015.org
- Deadline for submitting contributed papers: 13 February 2015.

3 – PRIZES

*Bernoulli Society awards Doeblin Prize to Grégory Miermont.

-Bernoulli Society and its Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes is pleased to announce the award of the Doeblin Prize http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=158 to Grégory Miermont.
The Doeblin Prize is generously sponsored by Springer and is awarded to a single individual who is at the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for work in the field of Probability. The awardee of the Prize is invited to submit to Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper which, if accepted, is published as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and will present a  Doeblin Prize Lecture in the next World Congress of the Bernoulli Society or the next Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) in an even-numbered year (in this case, the Oxford SPA, 13-17 July 2015).

* Ethel Newbold Prize – call for nominations.

-The Bernoully Society recently approved the establishment of the Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics, to be awarded every 2 years, beginning in 2015. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. The Ethel Newbold Prize is generously supported by Wiley. In any year in which the award is due, the prize will not be awarded unless the set of all nominations includes candidates from both genders.

The award consists of the prize amount of 2500€ together with an award certificate. For this call, the prize winner will be selected in spring 2015. The prize will be awarded at the World Statistics Congress in Rio de Janeiro and the awardee will be invited to present a talk at the Bernoulli Society World Congress in 2016. Further information about the Ethel Newbold Prize may be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes.



4.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND
   SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

     - BERNOULLI 20 (4)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org

     - SPA 124 (10-12), 125 (1)  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa



* Co-sponsored open access publications:

Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist Surveys at  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications


* Latest issue of Bernoulli News: http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/14b/Bernoulli_News_21-2.pdf

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 15

CONTENTS

1.- GENERAL NEWS

2 - OBITUARIES

3 - EVENTS

4 - PRIZES

5 - RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue please contact

Dario Spanò (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by March 15, 2014.

1- GENERAL NEWS

* Committee members.

From 2014, there will some changes in the composition of the Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes which have now been approved by Bernoulli EC.

-Raya Feldman, James Norris and Dmitry Ioffe will leave the committeee at the end of 2013. We thank them for all their work for the Bernoulli Society.

- Christina Goldschmidt, Zenghu Li and Itai Benjamini have been elected as committee members for the next term (2014-2017). A warm welcome to the new committee members !

- Ana Bella Cruzeiro, Antonio Galves, Kavita Ramanan and Balint Toth have all accepted to serve for a second and last term of 4 years (2014-2017).

- Jean Bertoin will cease to chair the committee at the end of this year, and Balint Toth has been elected as Chair of CCSP for 2014-2015.

* 2016 World Congress in Probability and Statistics.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Etheridge has been appointed as Scientific Programme Chair for the 9th World Congress on Probability and Statistics (jointly sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics) in Toronto, 2016.Professor Alison Etheridge works in the Statistics Department of Oxford University <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~etheridg/>. Her research can be roughly divided into the three interconnected areas of infinite dimensional stochastic analysis, mathematical ecology and mathematical population genetics. She has been an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, and has served on the Councils of the London Mathematical Society, the Bernoulli Society, and (currently) the IMS.

* SPA Article Posting Policy.

At http://www.journals.elsevier.com/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications/ one now finds the following note: "All SPA authors are allowed to directly post accepted author manuscripts (AAM) on the arXiv".For the general Elsevier article posting policy, the authors are directed to:

<http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-policies/article-posting-policy>

Though this has been agreed since several years, it was not explicitly mentioned at the journal homepage before.

* Bernoulli Society / ISI mentoring scheme.

Two initiatives specifically directed towards PhD students in statistics at universities in developing countries have been started. Details are available at <http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/11b/bn_03.html#c-Web-basedMentoring>. It should be emphasized, these two initiatives are complementary not competitive.

* Statistical Capacity Building.

Each year our parent organization, the ISI, invites bids from Bernoulli Society and other ISI Associations for partial funding of activities related to statistical capacity building. These funds are supplied by the World Bank Trust Fund (WBTF), and can be used (for example) to facilitate attendance by participants from developing countries in Bernoulli-sponsored conferences and workshops and short-course type activities in developing regions. For this call, activities must take place before 31 March 2015. Bernoulli Society is anxious that we play a full part in making proposals for such funding: given the size of Bernoulli Society, it would be appropriate to put forward two or three proposals to ISI.
Therefore we ask you whether you know of any possibilities for sponsorship. Successful bids would align with the WBTF objectives: "to improve the capacity of statistical officers and academics in developing countries by providing them with statistical knowledge to develop statistical systems through participation in international conferences and workshops".
If you know of any possibilities, please would you discuss with the organizers of the activity, and then, if they are willing, encourage them to compose a short note to be sent to the Scientific Secretary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; by 20 January 2014. The Bernoulli Society EC will then review the totality of bids and put forward two or three to ISI as Bernoulli-sponsored proposals for further funding.

2 – OBITUARIES

* Marc Yor (1949-2014).

Prof Gilles Pagès (co-Director of the Labo. de Probabilités & Modèles Aléatoires, Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie) has the sad duty of announcing the following:
"Nous avons le regret de vous annoncer le décès soudain de Marc YOR, survenu ce matin 10 janvier 2014 à son domicile."
(We regret to announce the sudden decease of Marc YOR, which occurred this morning  January 10, 2014 at his home.)

3.- EVENTS

3.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

* 37th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from July 28 to August 1, 2014. http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/

- Plenary speakers: Anton Bovier, Ivan Corwin, Laszlo Erdös, Antonio Galves, Christophe Garban, Martin Hairer (Lévy Lecture), Milton Jara, Gady Kozma, Eyal Lubetzky, Sylvie Méléard, David Nualart (IMS Medallion Lecture), Felix Otto, Tomohiro Sasamoto, Scott Sheffield, Fabio Toninelli, Balint Tóth, and a Doeblin Prize Lecture to be announced.

- List of recommended hotels and list of contributed sessions now available on the conference website http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/.

- Deadline for contributed talks and posters 30 March 2014. Interested researchers are more than welcome to send a proposal on a topic of their choice. See guidelines at http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/spa2014/deadlines.html

We look forward to meeting you in Buenos Aires

* Third IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings, Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan, June 30 - July 3, 2014. http://www.ims-aprm2014.tw .

This meeting series provides an excellent forum for scientific communications between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications.

• Plenary speakers Jianqing Fan (Princeton) and Persi diaconis (Stanford)

• Preliminary programme and list of speakers available at http://www.ims-aprm2014.tw/Program.php

3.2- Other events

* Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation in Economathematics, Ulm (Germany), March 4-7, 2014., The conference is a satellite meeting to the 11th German Probability and Statistics Days held at Ulm University from Tuesday Friday, March 7th, 2014. The conference includes a plenary talk by Christoph Schwab (ETH Zurich). For a full list of invited speaker and further details, visit http://graduiertenkolleg.gpsd-ulm2014.de/

* 2^nd ISNPS. Cadiz (Spain), June 12-16, 2014. http://www.isnpstat.org/index.php The International Society for NonParametric Statistics (ISNPS) was founded in 2010 with the mission "to foster the research and practice of nonparametric statistics, and to promote the dissemination of new developments in the field via conferences, books and journal publications.

• Deadline for abstract submission; 15^th February, 2014

• Early bird registration deadline: 15^th march, 2014

• Reduced registration fees for students.

* Australian Statistical Conference in Conjunction with the IMS Annual Meeting, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, July 7-10, 2014.

• Early bird deadline for registration: 28 February, 2014

• List of keynote speakers and more info available at http://www.ims-asc2014.com/

* 29^th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, Centre for Statistics, Georg-August-Universitaat Goettingen, July 14-18, 2014. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

• Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2014

• Deadline for travel grant application (students only): January 31, 2104

• Early registration deadline: April 30,2014

4. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article. Call for nominations in Statistics: January 31, 2014.

The BPOSA (http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=156) is to recognize authors of an influential survey publication in the areas of probability and mathematical statistics, respectively. The paper should be timely in addressing areas of active or emerging importance, but have been in circulation long enough for there to be evidence of its impact.

Nominations can be submitted to Peter Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

- BERNOULLI 19 (3-5) http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

- SPA 123 (9-12) and SPA 124 (1-4) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

* Co-sponsored open access publications:

Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist Surveys at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications

* Latest issue of Bernoulli News: http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/13b/Bernoulli_News_20-2.pdf