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Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 13

CONTENTS

1.- GENERAL NEWS

2 - 2013 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF STATISTICS

3 - EVENTS

4 - PRIZES

5 - OBITUARIES

6 - 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 February 15, 2013.

1- GENERAL NEWS

*  2013 International Year of Statistics. Happy New Year to all members! As most of you already know, 2013 has been proclaimed the International Year of Statistics and the Bernoulli Society will play, in collaboration with other societies, a primary role in promoting ways of celebrating the impact and growing importance of Probability and Statistics in all aspects of society. A special section of this bulletin contains an up-to-date list of activities co-sponsored by BerSoc as part of the 2013IYOS initiative.

* Membership renewal for 2013. We remind all our members that it is never too late to renew your annual BerSoc membership. You can submit your renewal form by visiting  http://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 (PhD students, postdoc and career-young researchers).

* Recent BerSoc appointments. We are very happy to welcome six of our fellow society members who have recently begun new terms of service with new or continuing roles with Bernoulli Society:

- Maria Eulalia Vares, Chair of the Publications Committee from July, 2012;

- Lynne Billard, Treasurer of the Bernoulli Society, and member of the Executive Committee from 1 January, 2013;

- George Michailidis, new editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Statistics (co-sponsored by Bernoullli jointly with IMS), from 1 January, 2013;

- Eric Moulines, new editor-In-chief of Bernoulli, from 1 January, 2013;

- Mark Poldolskij, Member Secretary of the Bernoulli Society, and of  the Executive Committee  from 1 January 2013;

-Nakahiro Yoshida, who will be continuing a further term as Scientific Secretary of the Bernoulli Society, and continuing on the Executive Committee, from 1 January, 2013.

* 2013 Mathematics of Planet Earth. the Bernoulli Society is one of the more than 100 partner organizations contributing to the efforts in the Mathematics of Planet Earth, 2013 (MPE-2013) initiative through the activities of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (C(PS)2 ). Check http://mpe2013.org/ for updated information.

2 - 2013 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF STATISTICS. INITIATIVES (CO)-SPONSORED BY BERNOULI SOCIETY

Further updates to the following list can be found at the website http://www.bs2013.org , where you can also find information on how to contribute to the success of the 2013IYOS programme and how to apply for BerSoc co-sponsorship. Further information about some of the conferences mentioned in this list can be found in Section 3 of this bulletin.

* Special Issue of the Bernoulli Journal (BJ) in 2013. Thomas Mikosch and Richard Davis guest editors. This issue will be published in addition to the four numbers of the annual volume and will have universal electronic open access.

* Special Issue of the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) in 2013. Rainer Dahlhaus, Jean Jacod, Per Mykland and Nakahiro Yoshida guest editors. This issue will be published in addition to the four numbers of the annual volume and will have universal electronic open access.

* Invited paper related to the historic and future impacts of Ars Conjectandi, to appear in 2013 in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society.

* 59th ISI World Statistics Congress in Hong Kong; August 24 -30, 2013. Invited Paper Session History I: Jacob Bernoulli's "Ars Conjectandi" as the emergence of probability. Organizer: Adam Jakubowski, speakers: Edith Sylla, Chris Burdzy, Christian P. Robert, Nick Bingham.

* Public lecture by Kenneth Golden at the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Boulder, Colorado, July 29 – August 2, 2013

* Special sessions at the 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) in Budapest, Hungary, July 20 - 25, 2013.

- Ars Conjectandi lecture celebrating the 300th anniversary of its publication: Glenn Shafer, one more speaker TBA.

- Thomas Bayes commemorial lecture for the 250th anniversary of presentation of his essays: Christian P. Robert

- Commemorial session for the 300th Anniversary of the St. Petersburg paradox Organiser: István Berkes, speakers TBA

- Panel discussion on the future of statistics Moderator: Wilfrid Kendall, panel members: Michael Jordan, Steffen Lauritzen, Henry Wynn, two more TBA.

* Ars Conjectandi Public Lecture given by David Spiegelharlter, during Joint Statistical Meeting 2013 held in Montréal, Canada, August 3-8, 2013.

* International Conference Ars Conjectandi 1713-2013, Basel, October 15-16, 2013, will focus on the history of the Ars Conjectandi, the impact on science and the development to date of the most important result in this book; the Law of Large Numbers. The Bernoulli Society is one of the organizations sponsoring the Basel Conference.

* Visiting position related to the celebration of the International Year of Statistics 2013 is offered upon application at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico.

* Public Lecture in Statistics by Valerie Isham (president of the Royal Statistical Society) to be held at the University of Warwick on 8 May, 2013. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/wplms/

* A series of conferences held in Poland in 2013 (German-Polish Joint Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, June 6-9, 2013, Torun, 17th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis, June 11-15, 2013, Torun, 7th Conference on Levy Processes, 15-19 July 2013, Wroclaw) will contain public lectures/ special sessions related to the IYOS 2013.

* Conference Building Bridges: Probability, Statistics and Applications, August 13-16, 2013, Braunschweig, Germany.

* Public lecture on Ars Conjectandi by Persi Diaconis, at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas held in Guanajuato, Mexico, August 5-9, 2013

* Bernoulli Society's Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences http://www.aueb.gr/bs-cpsps is organizing special sessions for the JSM in Montreal and WSC in Hong Kong for 2013, among other international congresses.

* In Fall of 2013 a public event will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA organized by representatives of seven different universities and the president of the Oregon Academy of Sciences. It will consist of a lecture by a prominent speaker followed by a reception that will include an award ceremony for the local video contest entries to the international competition.

3.-  EVENTS

3.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

* PARTY 2013 Perspectives on Actuarial Risks in Talks of Young Researchers. January 28th – February 1st 2013. Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland. This workshop for young researchers working on current actuarial science topics will focus on two main areas of research of today’s insurance risk: Longevity Risk and Risk Theory.

 

* First German-Polish Joint Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Torun, Poland, June 6-9, 2013. http://www.gpps.umk.pl/

- Abstract submission. Deadline: February 28th, 2013.

- Early Bird registration deadline: March 31st, 2013.

* EMS2013. The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS2013). Budapest, Hungary, 20-25. July 2013. http://ems2013.eu

 

- Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2013.

- Registration open from January 2013

* SPA 2013. The 2013 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Boulder, University of Colorado,USA, July 29 - August 2. http://math.colorado.edu/spa2013/

- Travel awards will be available to junior participants without their own sources of federal funding. Highest priority will be given to members of underrepresented groups, including women.  VIsit the conference website for information. Awards will be announced by March 2013.

* XVII EBP Brazilian School of Probability. Mambucaba, Rio de Janeiro, August 4-10, 2013.

- The EBP is an annual event. This 17th edition is organized by IM-UFRJ and IMPA. Minicourses by Martin Hairer (Warwick) and Errico Presutti (Roma). List of invited lecturers already available at: http://www.im.ufrj.br/ebp17/

- There will be also space for short communications and poster sessions. Updated  information at the conference website http://www.im.ufrj.br/ebp17/

* Building Bridges: Probability, Statistics and Applications, August 13—August 16, 2013, TU Braunschweig, Germany.

- A complete list of speakers and further details can be found at https://www.tubraunschweig.de/stochastik/tagungen/building-bridges

* ICAS VI Sixth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics . Rio de Janeiro, October 23 - 25, 2013. http://eventos.ibge.gov.br/en/icas2013.

- Before the Conference, FAO and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will organize and conduct two-day training sessions for young statisticians from developing countries.

* SPA 2014. The 2014 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), during the week July 28 - August , 2014.

3.2- Other events

* 59th ISI WSC 2013, 25-30 August 2013 in Hong Kong http://www.isi2013.hk/

- Extended deadline for submission of proposals for the Special Topic Sessions (STS): 30th June 2012. ISI and Associations’ members, ISI Committees and other organizations are encouraged to submit their proposals by completing the  proposal form located at http://www.isi2013.hk/download/59WSC_STS_proposal_form.pdf

- Early Bird registration deadline: 31 May, 2013.

* 17th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis, June, 11th--15th, 2013, Torun, Poland, www.sg2013.umk.pl .

- The event is In conjunction with the Tomasz Schreiber's Memorial

Session, Torun, Poland, www.tsms.umk.pl to be held on June 10. 2013

* Mathematical Congress of the Americas, August 5-9, 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico http://www.mca2013.org/

- On line registration opens in January, 2013

4. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Society Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability or Mathematical Statistics. A new committee has been assembled for Statistics articles. Nominations of papers with a focus in Statistics may be submitted to committee chair Peter Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. up to January 1st, 2014.  For guidelines see

5 - OBITUARIES

*ISI Elected Member George Casella, University of Florida, passed away on June 17, 2012. In a distinguished career at Rutgers, Cornell and the University of Florida, George mentored 48 MS and PhD students, published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and co-authored nine textbooks which are among the best known among students in Statistics.

* ISI elected member W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, died on October 14, 2012, at age 82. PhD, Fellow of the IMS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester.  Jack made deep and influential contributions in many areas of statistics, including decision theory, Bayesian statistics, survival analysis, semiparametric inference and sequential analysis, which he also applied to developing innovative statistical designs for clinical trials in cardiology.

6.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

 

- BERNOULLI  18(2-4)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

- SPA 123 (1-3) 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/12b/Bernoulli_News_19-2.pdf

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 12

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

Dario Spanò (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by August 30, 2012.

1.- GENERAL NEWS

* The Bernoulli Society Awards Ceremony and General Assembly will take place on Tuesday July 10, 2012: 18:10-19:00, during the World Congress in Istanbul. This will be followed by a wine and cheese reception from 19:00-19:30. A more detailed schedule and agenda is available on the conference web site http://www.worldcong2012.org/

* 2013 International Year of Statistics. Check the link http://www.bs2013.org/ for updates and ways that organizations and individual members can engage in recognizing locally sponsored Bernoulli Society events in celebration of the special year 2013. Updates can also be follwed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/Statistics2013

2.- EVENTS

2.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

 

*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/>

* The following exciting events are satellite meeting of the Istanbul world conference, all co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society:

* II Asia and Pacific Rim Meetings (APRM).Tsukuba,Japan. July 2-4, 2012.

    - Bernoulli Society co-sponsored special sessions: “Research at the Interface of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, I and II”, chaired by S.R.S. Varadhan and Peter Hall. Visit http://ims-aprm2012.org/index.html for more information

* 1st Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics. Chalkidiki, Greece, June 15-19, 2012. For updated information visit http://www.isnpstat.org .

* 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. http://www.bfs2012.com/

* EMS2013. The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS2013). Budapest, Hungary, 20-25. July 2013. http://ems2013.eu

    - Abstract submission open from September 1, 2012. Deadline: 15 March 2013.

    - Registration open from January 2013

* SPA 2013. The 2013 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Boulder, University of Colorado,USA, July 29 - August 2. http://math.colorado.edu/spa2013/

    - IMPORTANT NOTICE: It is never too early to book your accommodation for SP2013, which happens to fall in an especially busy time of the year of competing conferences  in Boulder. To this purpose rooms are already being held in various hotels under "SPA2013". Spaces are available in the campus dorms for young researchers. Accommodation information with a list of options can be found at http://math.colorado.edu/spa2013/?page_id=21

* SPA 2014. The 2014 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), during the week July 28 - August 1, 2014.

2.2- Other events

* Recent Developments in Statistical Multiscale Methods, July 16—18, 2012, University of Göttingen, Germany  http://www.stochastik.math.unigoettingen.de/for916/SMM2012

* Fifth Probability at Warwick Young Researchers Workshop, July 23—27, 2012, Warwick, UK. Two lecture courses, intended to be accessible to graduate students: Graphical probability and disordered systems, Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge) and Topics in branching processes, Prof. John Biggins (Sheffield). Deadline for registration 20 July, 2012. For information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/research/paw/paw2012

* 16-th Brazilian School of Probability or XVI EBP, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil August 06 - 11, 2012. Activities will include mini-courses, plenary talks by invited speakers, short communications and posters and more.  Detailed information on the site: www.de.ufpe.br/~xviebp/

* International Summer School on “Advanced Stochastic Methods to Model Risk”, September 9 - 22, 2012, Ulm University, Germany. Updated information at: http://www.uni-ulm.de/mawi/summer-academy-2012/

* Workshop on New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series,,September, 10 -11, 2012, Rome, Italy, http://www.statistik.tudortmund.de/1740.html. The Workshop is in part a continuation of the successful series of “Brussels-Waseda Seminars on Time Series and Financial Statistics”.

* 59th ISI WSC 2013, 25-30 August 2013 in Hong Kong http://www.isi2013.hk/

- Extended deadline for submission of proposals for the Special Topic Sessions (STS): 30th June 2012. ISI and Associations’ members, ISI Committees and other organizations are encouraged to submit their proposals by completing the  proposal form located at http://www.isi2013.hk/download/59WSC_STS_proposal_form.pdf

- Early Bird registration deadline: 31 May, 2013.

3. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Society Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability or Mathematical Statistics. A new committee has been assembled for Statistics articles. Nominations of papers with a focus in Statistics may be submitted to committee chair Peter Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. up to January 1st, 2014.  For guidelines see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes .

4.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

 

- BERNOULLI  18(2)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

- SPA 122 (2) and 122 (4-8) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

 

* Co-sponsored open access publications:

* Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/12aBernoulli_News_18-2.pdf

CONTENTS

1.- MEMBERSHIP

2.- GENERAL NEWS

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 January 31, 2012.

1 - MEMBERSHIP

The end of the year is getting closer!  We would like to remind all the E-Brief readers to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership (simple or joint with ISI and/or IMS). Each membership year runs from January 1 to December 31. You can do it online just by visiting http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. All our best wishes for the new year !

2.- GENERAL NEWS

*Djalil CHAFAÏ ⋅ http://djalil.chafai.net has accepted an appointment by IMS and Bernoulli Society as  managing editor for the Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability. Congratulations on his new appointment !

* IMS and Bernoulli Society have finalized the agreement to co-sponsor a special lecture to honor Oded Schramm, http://imstat.org/Schramm/ .

The Oded Schramm Lecture Endowment Fund has been created. Individual and corporate contributions to support this new IMS/Bernoulli Society jointly sponsored annual lecture in probability are invited at https://secure.imstat.org/secure/orders/schrammcontribution.asp

* IMU-Net 49b: Special issue the Blog on Mathematical Journals.

The IMU and the ICIAM have created a joint working group to discuss the issue of why a rating of  mathematical journals is desirable, and submitted a detailed proposal for journal rating. A blog (http://www.mathunion.org/journals) has been created to involve the mathematical community to contribute to the discussion with inputs and comments on the  proposal. Please visit the blog website for more information.

3.- EVENTS

3.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

 

*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/>

*. Bernoulli Society is co-sponsoring satellite activities for the 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul:

-(a) Young Statisticians Weekend Workshop

    -(b) Feza Gursey International Summer School in Mathematical Physics III: Probabilistic Aspects of Contemporary Physics, 20 June 2012--06 July 2012.  http://www.fezagurseysummerschool.com/

Also consult the web page http://www.worldcong2012.org/ for regular updates.

* XII CLAPEM  -12th Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Viña del Mar, Chile.  March 26-30, 2012.

    -The CLAPEM activities includes thematic sessions, short courses and satellite meetings. Information on the program available at http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/

    - Deadline for abstract submission: December 1, 2011

* 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. <http://www.bfs2012.com/>

* II Asia and Pacific Rim Meetings (APRM).Tsukuba,Japan. July 2-4, 2012.

    - BernSoc with IMS will co-sponsor two special sessions of 105 mins each, with the title: “Research at the Interface of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, I and II”.

    - Elsevier is also providing partial travel support for speakers in this session.

    - Deadline for abstract submission: December 24, 2011

    - Early registration deadline: April 15, 2012

    - Visit http://ims-aprm2012.org/index.html for more information

* EMS2013. The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS2013). Budapest, Hungary, 20-25. July 2013.

* SPA 2014. The 2014 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), during the week July 28 - August

1, 2014.

3.2- Other events

* PASI (Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute): Topics in percolative and disordered Systems, Santiago de Chile-Buenos Aires January 2 to 15, 2012.

    - The PASI school will take place with the first week in Santiago, Chile and the second in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    - Consult the website http://pasi2012.mat.puc.cl/ for registration

* ISBA 2012 World Meeting 2 - the premier conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). June 25 – 29, 2012, Kyoto, Japan.

4. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Society Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability or Mathematical Statistics. ,A new committee has been assembled for Statistics focus. Nominations of papers with a focus in Statistics may be submitted to committee chair Peter Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. up to January 1st, 2014.

5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

 

- BERNOULLI  17(4)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

- SPA 121 (12) and 122 (1)  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

* Co-sponsored open access publications:

* Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 11

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

Dario Spanò (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by April 15, 2012.

2.- GENERAL NEWS

* C(PS)^2 re-assembled. The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences  (C(PS)^2) has been reassembled since August 2011, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. On the new website http://www.aueb.gr/bs-cpsps/ information can be found on C(PS)^2’s mission, membership and activities. Ideas for the organization of workshops or sessions/conferences under the auspices of    C(PS) ^2 in pertinent areas of interest are welcome.

3.- EVENTS

3.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.

 

*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/>

    • - NSF funding for about 20 US-based participants (young, minority and women) to travel to WCPS 2012 (NEW!).

      - TUBITAK travel support for young researchers residing in Turkey

      - World Bank Fund for researchers from developing countries

      - IMU travel grants for researchers from developing countries

      - Elsevier and SPA travel grants

      - IMS/BernSoc childcare initiative.

    • - FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. There are now a variety of sources of financial support for participation to the World congress, including:

    Details and deadlines at: http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=financial_support

    -Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2012. Submit your abstract at http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=abstract

* The International Summer School in Math Physics III: Probabilistic Aspects of Contemporary Physics 20.06.2012 – 06.07.2012 Feza Gürsey Institute Kandilli, Istanbul – Turkey. This summer school is a satellite meeting of the Istanbul world conference with sponsorship of the Bernoulli Society. http://www.fezagurseysummerschool.com

* Pre-World Congress Meeting of Young Researchers in Probability and Statistics 2012 (PWCYPS 2012). July 6 - 8, 2012, Koç University, Sarıyer, Istanbul, TURKEY.

If you are a student (MS or PhD), post-doc or young researcher in statistics or probability, join 100 other young participants to the pre-World-Congress weekend.

    • - Deadline for abstract submission: April 1.

      - List of speakers and further details: http://pwc2012.ku.edu.tr/

      - For enquiries email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

* “Random Networks & Environments”, Istanbul.  July 16--20, 2012. This is an exciting satellite workshop right after the IMS-Bernoulli World Congress. For the current list of speakers and participants and for updated information, please visit http://www.math.boun.edu.tr/instructors/yilmaz/RNE.html

* 1st Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics. Chalkidiki, Greece, June 15-19, 2012 and is co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society. Researchers that are interested in ISNPS and/or would like to participate in its First Conference by giving a contributed talk or poster are encouraged to contact ISNPS at the email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . For updated information visit http://www.isnpstat.org .

*  “Long-Range Dependence, Self-Similarity and Heavy Tails”, International Conference in Honor of Professor Murad S. Taqqu. April 19-21, 2012, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

    • - Deadline for abstract submission: April 1.

      - List of speakers and more details available at        http://lrd2012.web.unc.edu/

* 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. http://www.bfs2012.com/

* II Asia and Pacific Rim Meetings (APRM).Tsukuba,Japan. July 2-4, 2012.

    - BernSoc with IMS will co-sponsor two special sessions of 105 mins each, with the title: “Research at the Interface of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, I and II”, chaired by S.R.S. Varadhan and Peter Hall.

    - Early registration deadline: April 15, 2012

    - Visit http://ims-aprm2012.org/index.html for more information

* EMS2013. The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS2013). Budapest, Hungary, 20-25. July 2013.

* SPA 2013. The 2013 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Boulder, University of Colorado,USA, July 29 - August 2.

- List of plenary speakers available at http://math.colorado.edu/spa2013/

* SPA 2014. The 2014 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), during the week July 28 - August

1, 2014.

3.2- Other events

* International Summer School on “Advanced Stochastic Methods to Model Risk”, September 9 - 22, 2012, Ulm University, Germany.

- Deadline for applications May31, 2012.

* 16-th Brazilian School of Probability or XVI EBP, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil August 06 to August 11, 2012. Activities will include mini-courses, plenary talks by invited speakers, short communications and posters and more.

* 59th ISI WSC 2013 in Hong Kong http://www.isi2013.hk/

- Call for Short Course Proposals from the ISI Short Course Committee

- IASS Short Courses 201

- Call for Special Topic Sessions Proposals

3. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Society Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability or Mathematical Statistics. A new committee has been assembled for Statistics articles. Nominations of papers with a focus in Statistics may be submitted to committee chair Peter Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. up to January 1st, 2014.  For guidelines see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes.

5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

* Recent issues:

 

- BERNOULLI  18(1)  http://www.bernoulli-society.org/

- SPA 122 (2) and 122 (3) (in progress) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

 

* Co-sponsored open access publications:

* Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html

Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 9

CONTENTS

1.- GENERAL NEWS

2.- EVENTS

3 - PRIZES

4.- OBITUARIES

5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue please contact

Dario Spanò (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)  November 10,  2011.

Please join me in welcoming our new editor, Dario Spano, to this edition of Bernoulli EBriefs and, on behalf of the entire membership, to express sincere  thanks to former editors Carenne Ludena and Ramses Mena for an outstanding job these past few years. EBriefs is proving  to be an excellent resource for timely  communication of the many varied activities  and opportunities  available around the world.  Best wishes to all.    Ed Waymire, President

1.- GENERAL NEWS

* Ed Waymire is the new president and Wilfrid Kendall is the new president-elect of the Bernoulli Society. We all wish to congratulate them on their new appointments.

* New lecture series in honor of Oded Schramm.

A new lecture series is being initiated in collaboration with IMS to honor the memory of Oded Schramm. Details will appear in Bernoulli News.

2.- EVENTS

2.1- Events sponsored by BernSoc.

 

*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/>

* 12th Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Viña del Mar, Chile.  March 26-30, 2012

    - List of invited speakers and invited sessions already available

    - Early bird registration: September 30, 2011

    - Deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2011

    More information at  <http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/>

* 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. <http://www.bfs2012.com/>

- Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2011

2.2- Other events

* MCQMC 2012, February 13-17, 2012, Sydney, Australia.

    - Biennial meeting devoted to the study of Monte Carlo (MC) and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods.  Earlybird registration deadline September 30, 2011.

* 2012 PIMS-mprime Summer School in Probability University of British Columbia, Vancouver , Canada, June 4-29, 2012. http://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/ssprob12/

    - The school will include two main courses:  Omer Angel (Interacting Particle Systems) and Gregory Miermont (Random Maps)

    - Preliminary information available on the website. For queries please contact the local organizers: Omer Angel This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Ed Perkins This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Gordon Slade This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

* ISBA 2012 World Meeting 2 - the premier conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). June 25 – 29, 2012, Kyoto, Japan.

3. PRIZES

* Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey article in probability.

    The award is biennial, the first of which  to be presented at the Bernoulli World Congress in the Summer of 2012.

    See http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/156

    DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATIONS: NOVEMBER 30

    Nominations should be submitted to the committee chaired by David Aldous This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

* Wolfgang Doeblin prize 2012

 

4- OBITUARIES

Paul Meier passed away on August 7,2011 in New York, NY, USA, age 87.  The statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine is best known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment. Read an obituary at The Lancet website doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61438-4.

5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND

SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

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- SPA 121 (10,11)  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa

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* Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html

 

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