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Created: 28 February 2024

The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has extended the call for nominations for the 2024 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.

Aapplications can be submitted until April 12, 2024.

The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory.  Nominees should normally be within 10 (calendar) years from getting their PhD to the prize year with suitable adjustments to be made for career breaks post-PhD (for example, maternity/paternity leave or military service).

The awardee will be invited to submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and will also be invited to present the Doeblin Prize Lecture at a Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

To nominate a candidate, please provide the following documents:

1. A comprehensive two-page Curriculum Vitae (CV) highlighting the nominee's academic background, professional experience, and honors/awards received.
2. A list of publications.
3. A document of at most five pages describing the nominee's work and placing it in context for importance. This document should outline the key mathematical contributions, their significance, and their impact on their respective field(s).
4. Between two and four letters of recommendation.

More information about the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize and past awardees can be found at https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes?id=158

Each nomination should be sent by April 12, 2024.

Nominations should be communicated to the Award Committee by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2024.

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Created: 27 December 2023

Message from the organizers World Congress:

Dear colleagues,

I want to draw your attention to a few recent developments concerning the upcoming Bernoulli-IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (Bochum, 12 to 16 August 2024):

(1) Most Invited Paper Sessions are now completed; on our website you can find the topics, the organizers and most of the speakers:
https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/invited-papers-sessions

(2) A first batch of Organized Contributed Paper Sessions has been approved; here you can find the topics, the organizers and the speakers:
https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/organized-contributed-paper-sessions

(3) We have extended the deadline for submission of proposals for Organized Contributed Paper Sessions until 31 January 2024. Please note the 15 February 2024 deadline for submission of individual contributed talks and posters.

Hope to see you in August in Bochum for the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress.

Herold Dehling
(Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)

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Created: 13 December 2023

The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2024 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.

The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory.  Nominees should normally be within 10 (calendar) years from getting their PhD to the prize year with suitable adjustments to be made for career breaks post-PhD (for example, maternity/paternity leave or military service).

The awardee will be invited to submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and will also be invited to present the Doeblin Prize Lecture at a Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

To nominate a candidate, please provide the following documents:

1. A comprehensive two-page Curriculum Vitae (CV) highlighting the nominee's academic background, professional experience, and honors/awards received.
2. A list of publications.
3. A document of at most five pages describing the nominee's work and placing it in context for importance. This document should outline the key mathematical contributions, their significance, and their impact on their respective field(s).
4. Between two and four letters of recommendation.

More information about the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize and past awardees can be found at https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes?id=158

Each nomination should be sent by April 12, 2024.

Nominations should be communicated to the Award Committee by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2024.

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Created: 06 October 2023

Autumn school on hypergraphs - online event

The Bernoulli Society Committee on Statistical Network Science is excited to offer a half-day autumn school on hypergraphs, to take place online on October 12, 2023, from 11 am - 3 pm UTC (or 12 noon - 4 pm UK time).

The aim of this event is to provide an introduction to the area of hypergraphs, from three different angles: probability and statistics, data science, and physics. The lectures include an elementary introduction to the area and take around 1 hour each, with questions.

 Agenda: 

11:00 welcome

11:15 Timoteo Carletti (Namur) : Physics and hypergraphs

12:15 break

12:30 Catherine Matias (CNRS): Statistical modeling of higher order interactions

13:30 break

13:45 Michael Schaub (Aachen): Signal processing on higher-order networks

14:45 discussion and closing remarks.

The meeting will be held via zoom. 

A recording of the meeting is available at the link:

https://github.com/BS-SNS/Public/blob/main/school/README.md 

All welcome

Vlado Batagelj, Sarika Jalan, Sofia Olhede, and Gesine Reinert (the organiser team)

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Created: 02 August 2023

Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research, New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics, and/or excellence in research that links developments in a substantive field to new advances in statistics. The Prize Committee consisted of Gesine Reinert (Chair), Adrian Röllin and Susan Murphy. During the 63th ISI WSC in Ottawa, on July 20th, 2023, Lester Mackey gave a lecture entitled Advances in Distribution Compression.

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Created: 02 August 2023

1. The transfer of the Bernoulli Book

During the General Assembly on July 18th, 2023, Adam Jakubowski formally handed over the presidency. The Bernoulli Book, symbolizing the presidency, was presented to Victor Panaretos, who officially assumed the position of president of Bernoulli Society for the years 2023–2025.

2. A Lecture on History of Probability Theory

At the Bernoulli Society Presidents Invited Session on July 19th, 2023, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder, Norway)  presented Dispute and Agreement between Two Pioneers of Modern Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Andrey Kolmogorov and Richard Von Mises in 1932.

3.  Bernoulli Journal Lecture

On July 18th, 2023, Alexandra Carpentier (University of Potsdam, Germany) delivered via zoom a lecture entitled Tight concentration inequalities for weakly dependent fields, and applications to the mixing bandit problem.

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Created: 11 April 2023

The Nomination Committee, chaired by the President-Elect Victor Panaretos, sent their report to the Scientific Secretary in September 2022 with the following list of candidates:

• President-Elect: Nancy Reid (University of Toronto, Canada), commencing in August 2025 in succession to the next President Victor Panaretos.

Six ordinary members of the Council for a four-year term from August 2023 to July 2027:

• David Croydon (University of Kyoto, Japan)
• Holger Dette (University of Bochum, Germany)
• Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Giovanni Peccatti (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
• Maria-Eulalia Vares (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Andrew Wood (Australian National University, Australia)

The Scientific Secretary Song Xi Chen submitted the report of the Nomination Committee to the ordinary members of the Council for additional suggestions. No further nominations were made. The Executive Committee and the Council approved the above nominations in October 2022. According to Section 9 of the Statutes, these candidates are declared elected without vote, pending final approval at the next General Assembly in July 2023.

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Created: 02 April 2023

The Award Committee invites nominations for the Bernoulli Society-Royal Statistical Society David G.
Kendall Award for Young Researchers. This biennial award aims to recognize excellent research in
Mathematical Statistics and in Probability Theory. The award is in honor of David G. Kendall, who was
the first president of the Bernoulli Society, and was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver (1955) and in
Gold (1981) of the RSS. 

The 2023 edition of the award is organized for young researchers in Mathematical Statistics. The
award consists of the prize amount of 2000€ together with an award certificate. The winner will
deliver the Kendall Lecture during the RSS International Conference 2024. The award should be used
to cover the expenses of attendance at this conference.
Nominees should be researchers with significant achievements and great potential in their research
field, who obtained their PhD after January 1 st , 2015 (up to a year’s credit will be given for each year
taken out due to parental circumstances since receiving the PhD at the committee’s discretion).  
Nominees must be members of either the Bernoulli Society or the Royal Statistical Society.
Nominations should be communicated to the Award Committee by sending an email to

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

and be signed by two members of the BS or the RSS. They must include the name, affiliation, and
brief curriculum vitae (including a list of publications) of the nominee, a statement of no more than
100 words summarising the case for nomination, a list of the best three articles, and a review of no
more than two pages of the nominee's research contributions.  
The members of the 2023 Award Committee are

Aad van der Vaart (BS, Chair)
Sara van de Geer (BS)
Charles Taylor (RSS)
Almut Veraart (RSS)

The nomination process is open from 1 April 2023 and closes on 30 June 2023.  
The award recipient will be announced in December 2023.

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Created: 21 March 2023

The deadline for submission of contributed papers for the Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2023 to take place July 24-28 in Lisbon, Portugal has been prolonged till April 30th, 2023. See https://www.spa2023.org/abstractsubmission .

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Created: 21 March 2023

The deadlines for submission of contributed papers and early bird payment for the European Meeting of Statisticians 2023 to take place July 3-7 in Warsaw, Poland, have been prolonged (till March 31st and May 5th, 2023, respectively). See https://ems2023.org/important_dates .