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History of the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress
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1st. 1986 in Tashkent (USSR), September 8-14International 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 13-17700 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 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 20-25700 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 26-31700 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 15-21550 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 26-31700 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 14-19550 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
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 9-14750 participants. For details see the conference website. Grand Cevahir Hotel and Convention Center Programme Committee Arnoldo FRIGESSI University of Oslo (Chair) Further members: Vladimir BOGACHEV, Moscow State University Local Organizing Committee
Further members: 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
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 11-15For 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
Wald Lecture: Sara van de Geer Medallion Lecturers: Frank den Hollander, Vanessa Didelez, Christina Goldschimdt, Arnaud Doucet, Pierre del Moral |