1st. 1986 in Tashkent (USSR), September 8-14
International Organizing Committee
Chairman: P. Revesz (Hungary)
Further members: V. V. Sazonov (USSR)
S. Kh. Sirazhdinov (USSR)
E. L. Scott (USA)
J. Teugels (Belgium)
C. C. Heyde (Australia)
Program Committee
Chairman: K. Krickeberg (France)
Further members:
A. A. Borovkov (USSR)
D. G. Kendall (UK)
D. R. Cox (UK)
Yu. V. Prokhorov (USSR)
S. Resnick (USA)
W. R. van Zwet (Holland)
A. N. Shiryaev (USSR)
Soviet Organizing Committee
Honorary Chairman: A. N. Kolmogorov
Chairman: Yu. V. Prokhorov
Tashkent Organizing Committee
Chaiman: S. Kh. Sirazhdinov
For more information: Bernoulli News, Vol. 17, No 1 (2010)
Note by Albert Shiryaev and opening words by A. N. Kolmogorov
Interview with Albert Shiryaev conducted by Vladimir Vatutin, from Bernoulli News November 2014
2nd. 1990 in Uppsala (Sweden), August 13-17
700 to 800 participants.
An outstanding international event was the 2nd World Congress of the Bernoulli
Society and 53rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Which was held in Uppsala 13-18 August 1990. Allan Gut was the secretary of the National organizing committee and one of the local organizers. There were 700-800 participants from all over the world and the congress was a great success.
Secretary of the Local Organizing Committee: Allan Gut
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Yakov G. Sinai
Cramér Lecture: Søren Johansen
Neyman Lecture: Peter Whittle
Kolmogorov Lecture: David G. Kendall
For more information: Bernoulli News, Vol. 17, No 1 (2010)
Note Comments on the meeting by Allan Gut
3rd. 1994 in Chapell Hill (USA), June 20-25
700 participants. For details see the “Report on Activities 2004” in Bernoulli News, Vol. 2 No.1 (1995)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Herman Chernoff
Laplace Lecture: Adrian F.M. Smith
Kolmogorov Lecture: Peter Jagers
Chair of the Programme Committee: M. Eaton
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee: R. Leadbetter
4th. 1996 in Vienna (Austria), August 26-31
700 participants. For details see “Conference 1996” in Bernoulli News, Vol. 3 No.1 (1996)
University of Vienna
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: David Donoho
Laplace Lecture: Michel Talagrand with E. Bolthausen, L. Lovasz and L. Birgé as discussants
Kolmogorov Lecture: Peter Hall
Stochastic Processes and Applications Lecture (now Lévy Lecture): D.A. Dawson
IMS Special Invited Lectures: J.P. Kahane and D. Stoyan
Royal Statistical Society Ordinary Meeting and a Special Lecture: P.J. Diggle and I.A.l. Wasel
Programme Committee
Friedrich Götze (chair)
Further members: Ricardo Fraiman (Uruguay), Richard Gill (Netherlands, ex officio), Takeyuki Hida (Japan), Iain Johnstone (Stanford, USA), Jana Jureckova (Czech Republic), Niels Keiding (Denmark), Rafail Khasminskii (USA), Pascal Massart (France), Pal Revesz (Austria), Richard Smith (USA/UK)
Local Organizing Committee
Georg Pflug (chair)
Further members: Imanuel Bonze, Wilfried Grossmann, Walter Gutjahr, Benedikt Pöttscher (all University of Vienna), Manfred Deistler (Technical University of Vienna), Helmunt Strasser (Economical University of Vienna)
5th. 2000 in Guanajuato (Mexico), May 15-21
550 participants. For details see “Reports on Recent Activities” in Bernoulli News, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2000)
CIMAT (Research Center for Mathematics)
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: P.Donnelly
Laplace Lecture: I.Johnstone
Kolmogorov Lecture: S.R.S.Varadhan
Stochastic Processes and Applications Lecture (now Lévy Lecture): M.Yor
IMS Special Invited Lectures: M. West, I. Karatzas, W. Van Der Vaart and E. Bolthausen
Wald Lectures: N. Reid
Neyman Lecture: M.E. Bock
Programme Committee
Evarist Giné (chair)
Further members: L. Brown (USA), C. Cutler (Canadá), M. Fukushima (Japan), L. Gorostiza (Mexico), W. Kendall (Germany), C. Klüppelberg (Germany), M. Ledoux (France), E. Mammen (Germany), D. Mason (USA), V. Pérez-Abreu (Mexico), J. Pitman (USA), A. Raftery (USA), D. Siegmund (USA), B. Silverman (England), R. Tibshirani (Canada), J. Wellner (USA), R. Williams (USA), W. Wong (USA).
Local Organizing Committee
Victor Perez-Abreu (chair)
Further members: V. Aguirre, F. Avila, L.M. Briseño, M.E. Caballero, S. Cancino, A. Carrillo, M. Cerrilla (Conference Secretary), R. Dávalos, J.L. Enríquez, B. Fernández, U. García, G. González, J.M. González –Barrios, J.A. León, J.A. López, M. Moreno, M. Nakamura, L. Navarro, R. Quezada, L. Rincón Gallardo, J. Ruíz de Chávez, B. Trejo, J. Villaseñor.
6th. 2004 in Barcelona (Spain), July 26-31
700 participants. For details see the conference website.
University of Barcelona
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures
Bernoulli Lecture: Jun Liu
Laplace Lecture: Steffen L. Lauritzen
Kolmogorov Lecture: David Aldous
Lévy Lecture: Wendelin Werner
IMS Special Invited Lectures
Wald Lecture: Iain Johnstone
Rietz Lecture: Peter Bickel
Medallion Lecturers: Vladimir Koltchinskii, Evarist Giné, Cun-Hui Zhang, Alison Etheridge, and Dominique Picard
Programme Committee
Wilfrid Kendall (chair)
Further members: Gérard Ben Arous (Courant, NY), David Brillinger (Berkeley), Rainer Dahlhaus (Heidelberg) , Michel Delecroix (ENSAI, Bruz), Evarist Giné (Connecticut), Wenceslao González Manteiga, (Santiago de Compostela), Russ Lyons (Indiana), Enno Mammen (Heidelberg), Thomas Mikosch (Copenhagen), Susan Murphy (Michigan), David Nualart (Barcelona), Doug Nychka (NCAR, Boulder), Yosi Ogata (Tokyo), Chris Rogers (Cambridge), Roberto Schonmann (UCLA, Los Angeles), Michael Sørensen (Copenhagen), Simon Tavaré (USC, Los Angeles), Sara van de Geer (Leiden), Anton Wakolbinger (Frankfurt), Ofer Zeitouni (Technion, Haifa)
Local Organizing Committee
David Nualart (chair)
Further members: Joan del Castillo (UAB), José M. Corcuera (UB), Arturo Kohatsu-Higa (UPF), David Márquez-Carreras (UB), Carles Rovira (UB), Marta Sanz-Solè (UB), Frederic Utzet (UAB)
7th.2008 in Singapore, July 14-19
550 participants. For details see the conference website.
National University of Singapore
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: David Spiegelhalter
Laplace Lecture: Jianqing Fan
Kolmogorov Lecture: Alain-Sol Sznitman
Lévy Lecture: Alice Guionnet
Tukey Lecture: Elizabeth Thompson
BS-IMS Special Lectures: Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner
IMS Special Invited Lectures:
Wald Lecture: Richard Durrett
Rietz Lecture:
Neyman Lecture: Peter McCullagh
Medallion Lecturers: Martin Barlow, Zhi-Ming Ma and Mark Low
Public Lecture: Douglas Nychka
Programme Committee:
Ruth Williams (chair)
Further members:
Vivek Borkar (Tata Institute, India), Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Louis Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Jim Fill (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Arnoldo Frigessi (University of Oslo, Norway), Peter Green (University of Bristol, UK), Peter Hall (University of Melbourne, Australia), Steve Lalley (University of Chicago, USA), Petr Lansky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Jean-François Le Gall (ENS and University of Paris XI, France), Makoto Maejima (Keio University, Japan), Andrew Nobel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Marta Sanz-Solé (University of Barcelona, Spain), Qi-Man Shao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China and University of Oregon, USA), Bernard Silverman (University of Oxford, UK), Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Maria Eulalia Vares (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Keith Worsley (McGill University, Canada), Henry Wynn (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), Bin Yu (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Local Organizing Committee :
Louis Chen (chair)
Further members:
Bruce Brown (National University of Singapore), Yiu Man Chan (National University of Singapore), Sanjay Chaudhuri (National University of Singapore), Zehua Chen (National University of Singapore), Kwok Pui Choi (National University of Singapore) (Organizing Secretary), Tin Chiu Chua (National University of Singapore), Fah Fatt Gan (National University of Singapore), Anthony Kuk (National University of Singapore) (Co-chair), Koon Shing Kwong (Singapore Management University), Denis Leung (Singapore Management University), Wei Liem Loh (National University of Singapore)
8th . 2012 in Istanbul (Turkey), July 9-14
750 participants. For details see the conference website.
Grand Cevahir Hotel and Convention Center
Programme Committee
Arnoldo FRIGESSI University of Oslo (Chair)
Further members:
Adrian BADDELEY, University of Western Australia
Vladimir BOGACHEV, Moscow State University
Krzysztof BURDZY, University of Washington
T. Tony CAI, University of Pennsylvania
Elvan CEYHAN, Koç University
Probal CHAUDHURI, Indian Statistical Institute
Mine ÇAĞLAR, Koç University
Erhan ÇINLAR, Princeton University
Anthony DAVISON, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Rick DURRETT, Duke University
Alice GUIONNET, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Peter GLYNN, Stanford University
Peter GUTTORP, University of Washington
Onésimo HERNÁNDEZ, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Dmitry IOFFE, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Sushmita MITRA, Indian Statistical Institute
Shige PENG, Shandong University
Dominique PICARD, Université Paris VII
Kavita RAMANAN, Brown University
Sylvia RICHARDSON, Imperial College
Vladas SIDORAVICIUS, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Michael SØRENSEN, University of Copenhagen
Matthew STEPHENS, University of Chicago
Guenther WALTHER, Stanford University
Victor YOHAI, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Nakahiro YOSHIDA, University of Tokyo
Thaleia ZARIPHOPOULOU, The University of Texas at Austin
Local Organizing Committee
Elvan CEYHAN, Koç University (Co-chair)
Mine ÇAĞLAR, Koç University (Co-chair)
Further members:
Fikri AKDENİZ, Çukurova University
Ülkü GÜRLER, Bilkent University
Þennur ONUR, Turkish Statistical Institute
Süleyman ÖZEKİCİ, Koç University
Semih SEZER, Sabancı University
Fetih YILDIRIM, Çankaya University
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Peter GREEN
Laplace Lecture: Anestis ANTONIADIS
Kolmogorov Lecture: Stas SMIRNOV
Lévy Lecture: Maria Eulália VARES
Tukey Lecture: Bin YU
Joint BS-IMS special invited lectures:
Doob Lecture: Yves LE JAN
IMS Special Invited Lectures:
Wald Lecture: Steffen LAURITZEN
Le Cam Lecture: Pascal MASSART
Medallion Lecturers: Sourav CHATTERJEE , Nicole EL KAROUI, Franco FLANDOLI,Alexandre TSYBAKOV, Van VU
Public Lecture: Peter DIGGLE
For the opening speech by A. Frigessi, see Bernoulli News, vol. 19, no 2, (2012).
9th . 2016 in Toronto (Canada), July 11-15
For details see the conference website
Programme Committee:
Alison Etheridge (Scientific Programme Committee Chair)
Iain Johnstone (Stanford)
Judith Rousseau (IMS Programme Secretary)
Tom Salisbury (Chair Local organisers)
Fang Yao (representative of Statistical Society of Canada)
Nakahiro Yoshida (Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary)
Probal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute)
Song Xi Chen (Beijing/Iowa)
Nick Duffield (Texas A&M)
Pablo Ferrari (Buenos Aires)
Michael Jordan (Berkeley)
Xihong Lin (Harvard)
Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Greg Miermont (Lyon)
Lea Popovic (Concordia)
Alexander Tsybakov (Paris 6)
Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon)
Alan Welsh (ANU)
Nanny Wermuth (Chalmers/Mainz)
Local Committee Chair: Tom Salisbury (York)
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Valerie Isham
Laplace Lecture: Byeong Park
Kolmogorov Lecture: Ruth Williams
Lévy Lecture: Servet Martinez
Tukey Lecture: David Brillinger
Ethel Newbold Prize Lecture: Judith Rousseau
Joint BS-IMS special invited lectures:
Doob Lecture: Scott Sheffield
Schramm Lecture: Ofer Zeitouni
IMS Special Invited Lectures:
Wald Lecture: Sara van de Geer
Medallion Lecturers: Frank den Hollander, Vanessa Didelez, Christina Goldschimdt, Arnaud Doucet, Pierre del Moral
10th. 2021 in Seoul (South Korea), July 19-23
Virtual Congress. There were 755 registered participants from 41 countries. For details see the Congress Program
Scientific Programme Committee:
Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute)
Further members:
Nicolas Curien (Paris-Saclay University), Steven Evans (UC Berkeley), Martin Hairer (Imperial College London), Ingrid van Keilegom (KU Leuven), Runze Li (Pennsylvania State University), Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology), Hans-Georg Müller (UC Davis), Byeong Uk Park (South Korea), Qi-Man Shao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Masashi Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo), Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris), Ming Yuan (Columbia University), Ellen Baake (Bielefeld Universit), Ioana Dumitriu (University of Washington), Ayalvadi Ganesh (University of Bristo), Tailen Hsing (University of Michigan), Takashi Kumagai (Kyoto University), Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University),Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen),Judith Rousseau, (University of Oxford), Béatrice de Tilière (University Paris Est Creteil), Maria Eulália Vares (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Local Organizing Committee:
Chair: Hee-Seok Oh (Seoul National University)
Further members:
Hwan Chung (Korea University), Yongho Jeon (Yonsei University), Eun Ryung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University), Young Kyung Lee (Kangwon National University), Johan Lim (Seoul National University), Insuk Seo (Seoul National University), Joong-Ho Won (Seoul National University), Kyusang Yu (Konkuk University), Woncheol Jang (Seoul National University), Panki Kim (Seoul National University),Woojoo Lee (Seoul National University), Chae Young Lim (Seoul National University), Seung Jun Shin (Korea University), Jae Keun Yoo (Ewha Womans University)
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Alison Etheridge
Laplace Lecture: Tony Cai
Kolmogorov Lecture: Persi Diaconis
Lévy Lecture: Massimiliano Gubinelli
Tukey Lecture: Sara van de Geer
Joint BS-IMS special invited lectures:
Doob Lecture: Nicolas Curien
Schramm Lecture: Omer Ange
IMS Special Invited Lectures:
Blackwell Lecture: Gabor Lugosi
Wald Lecture: Martin Barlow
Medallion Lecturers:Gerard Ben Arous; Andrea Montanari; Elchanan Mossel; Laurent Saloff‑Coste; Daniela Witten
Bernoulli Paper Prize Session:
Bernoulli Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability: Leonid Petrov
Bernoulli Journal Read Paper Award: Soutir Bandyopadhyay
Public Lecture: Young Han Kim
11st. 2024 in Bochum (Germany), August 12-16
Scientific Programme Committee:
Aurore Delaigle (Chair), University of Melbourne
Kavita Ramanan (Chair), Brown University
Further members:
Sudipto Banerjee, University of California at Los Angeles
Riddhipratim Basu, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
Krzysztof Bogdan, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Holger Dette, Ruhr University Bochum
Jian Ding, Peking University
Hugo Duminil-Copin, University of Geneva
Alice Guionnet, ENS Lyons
Ruth Heller, Tel Aviv University
Nina Holden, New York University
Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Ramsés H Mena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
Johanna Nešlehová, McGill University
Sofia Olhede, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Roberto Oliveira, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Valentin Patilea, École nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information (ENSAI), Bruz
Sarah Penington, University of Bath
Annie Qu, University of California at Irvine
Gareth Roberts, University of Warwick
Janice Scealy, Australian National University
Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University
Valeria Vitelli, University of Oslo
Hendrik Weber, University of Münster
Song Xi Chen, Peking University
Thaleia Zaripophoulou, University of Texas at Austin
Local Organizing Committee
Herold Dehling (Chair), Ruhr University Bochum
Further members:
Axel Bücher, Ruhr University Bochum
Holger Dette, Ruhr University Bochum
Peter Eichelsbacher, Ruhr University Bochum
Roland Fried, Technical University Dortmund
Christof Külske, Ruhr University Bochum
Christoph Thäle, Ruhr University Bochum
Anita Winter, University Duisburg-Essen
Jeannette Woerner, Technical University Dortmund
Special Bernoulli Society Lectures:
Bernoulli Lecture: Emmanuel Candés
Laplace Lecture: Xihong Lin
Kolmogorov Lecture: Rafal Latala
Lévy Lecture: Rongfeng Sun
Tukey Lecture: Mihaela van der Schaar
Cox Lecture: Victor Chernozhukov
Joint BS-IMS special invited lectures:
Doob Lecture: Pablo Ferrari
Schramm Lecture: Patricia Goncalves
Schramm Lecture: Nina Holden
IMS Special Invited Lectures:
Wald Lecture: Peter Bühlmann
Medallion Lecturers: Moulinath Banerjee; Marc Hallin; Remco van der Hofstad; Chunming Zhang
Ruhr University Bochum Lecture
Ising Lecture: Frank den Hollander