Some news from 64th ISI World Statistics Congress - Ottawa, Canada

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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