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The Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics
The Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics is to recognize authors of an influential survey publication in statistics. The 2022 prize is given to Professor Ulrike von Luxburg (University of Tübingen, Department of Computer Science) for the article "A tutorial on spectral clustering", Statistics and Computing volume 17, pages 395–416 (2007).
New officers
Johan Segers (UCLouvain, Belgium) has become our new Treasurer, succeeding Geoffrey Grimmett. Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) has become the Chairman of East-Asian and Pacific Regional Committee, succeeding Bikramjit Das. The new members of this regional committee are: Estate Khmaladze (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Panki Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), Yingcun Xia (National University of Singapore), Xingqiu Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). We would like to thank Geoffrey Grimmett and Bikramjit Das for their dedicated work over previous years.
Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2023
The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications to the New Researcher Award 2023. Each awardee
shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the ISI World Statistics Congress Conference
to be held in Ottawa, Canada, July 15-20, 2023, and will receive a funding up to 1000 € to offset
travel and other expenses. Bernoulli News will publish their pictures and a paragraph about their
work.
Eligible candidates are active researchers in Mathematical Statistics who obtained the Ph.D. degree on
or after March 15th, 2017, and who are regular members of the Bernoulli Society. An extension
may be given to those having had disruptions after receiving the Ph.D., such as parenthood.
Candidates should apply through the webform https://forms.gle/yQg8F6fDx7qLLCAMA .
and sendthe required documents to the e-mail address indicated in the form.
The application deadline is 15 March 2022.
ISI Seeks New Director
The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is seeking a new Director to replace the current Director who will retire on 1 July 2022. The new Director should help develop a vision for the profession of statistics and the role the ISI can play in supporting it.
The new Director must be able to quickly get on top of the complexity of the role and the unique challenges the ISI faces as an international society. The Director is responsible for all strategic, tactical and operational activities of the ISI and the Permanent Office and reports to the Executive Committee. Great challenge for an ambitious Director who can drive the future of ISI in close cooperation with a truly international board and motivated team. Further details are available at https://www.isi-web.org/files/docs/news/2022-position-specification-international-statistical-instititute-director.pdf.
Call for nominations for the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
A new biennial prize has been created by the King Baudouin Foundation (https://www.kbs-frb.be/en/about-us), a large public utility foundation in Belgium. The prize is named after its sponsor, the statistician Peter J. Rousseeuw. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics will award pioneering work in statistical methodology.
The prize recognizes a statistical innovation, that is, an outstanding contribution or tool that has had significant impact and found wide application in statistical practice, with relevance to society. One of the goals is to promote awareness of the important role and intellectual content of statistics and its profound impact on human endeavors.
The prize will be awarded in even years, starting in 2022. The award amount is one million US dollars per prize, to be split over awardees if there are several, which it is hoped will typically be the case. The first award ceremony is scheduled for November 2022 at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Nominations, including letters of recommendation, are to be submitted by March 31st 2022 on the website https://www.rousseeuwprize.org, which contains all information about the prize and nomination procedure.
A new open-access journal in data sciences
The first issue of The Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization (JDSSV) is published by our sibling society IASC. More details are available at https://jdssv.org/index.php/jdssv.
In memoriam: Sir David Cox
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Sir David R.Cox, former president (1979-1981) and one of the most eminent members of The Bernoulli Society. He passed away on January 18, 2022, at the age of 97 (https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/news/sir-david-cox-1924-2022).
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The ninth One World webinar, organized by YoungStatS, will be dedicated to Inclusion Process and Sticky Brownian Motions. Selected young researchers active in this area will present their recent contributions.
40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics
The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.
Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
The goals of this conference are to bring together internationally renowned researchers working on various topics related to stochastic analysis and, particularly, to the theory and applications of stochastic partial differential equations, and to expose and attract graduate students and young researchers to this steadily growing area. The conference is organized in honour of Professor Marta Sanz-Solé.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications
This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Professor in risk management, financial mathematics, financial statistics or mathematical statistics at KU Leuven
The Faculty of Science at KU Leuven (Belgium) invites applications for a full-time faculty position in the areas of risk management, financial mathematics, financial statistics or mathematical statistics. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in mathematics or statistics, or an equivalent degree. Applicants are expected to develop research activities at the forefront of the international research community in one or more of the mentioned fields, and must demonstrate excellence in research and very good teaching skills. The rank of the appointment will depend on the applicant's research and teaching record.
Faculty positions in Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
The School of Data Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) is inviting qualified candidates to fill multiple tenured, tenure-track or teaching track faculty positions at all academic ranks in the area of Statistics. Along with strong research on methodological foundations, the statistics group aims at interdisciplinary research in collaboration within school’s staff in operation research and computer science. For all positions, the ability in effective teaching in English to diverse groups of students is required. Applications from overseas with international experience are particularly welcomed.
Application and more information are available at http://academicrecruit.cuhk.edu.cn/sds.
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Tenure-Track Position in Statistics at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT-CONACYT: http://www.cimat.mx/ ) in Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico, seeks applications from ambitious, highly
motivated and talented individuals with a PhD, earned in the last fifteen years, in the area of Statistics or closely related disciplines for a tenure-track research position, to start any time between May and August 2022. Applicants are expected to be working on modern research fields in statistics, namely
one or the intersection of, complex data and/or massive data analyses, complex models, computer
intensive methodologies, considering both theory and applications. Additionally to the latter,
applicants working in the interface with Probability Theory are specially sought. Applicants must meet the following requirements to be considered for the position: 1) An academic career with scientific achievements in accordance with the length of time passed after
the doctorate. Mexican residents must be members of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)
or have the appropriate academic achievements to successfully participate in the next SNI call; 2) Teaching experience in Statistics is desirable, in order to train students at undergraduate, master
and doctoral levels. Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required for the first years.
Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
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Nominations for ISI Officers’ Elections
The ISI Nominations Committee invites all members of the ISI and Associations to suggest names for the posts of President-Elect, Vice-Presidents and Council members for the next round of ISI Officers’ Elections. The presentation of candidates’ names with indication of post and motivation of the candidate’s suitability for the position should be sent to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Victor Pérez Abreu (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 30 November 2021.
Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members
At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held online on July 8th, 2021, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Adam Jakubowski (President of the BS), Victor Panaretos (President-Elect, Chair), Herold Dehling, Leonardo Rolla, Christina Goldschmidt, Marcos Valdebenito, Gesine Reinert, Gerda Claeskens, Zengjing Chen, Juan Carlos Pardo Millán and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2023-2025) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2023-2027. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Victor Panaretos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by December 31st, 2021.
Call for nominations for the 2022 Wolfgang Doblin prize
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2022 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. 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.
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). The nominations are being sought for The Presidents’ Award, The Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, The Elizabeth L. Scott Award and Lectureship, The COPSS Leadership Academy Award. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2021. More information about these awards can be found at https://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/nominations.
The workshop "The 1st Sino-German Workshop on Reliability of Complex Systems" (SGWRCS), organized in virtual form, will have the focus on Reliability Engineering, Risk Management, and Resilience of complex engineering systems appeared in key infrastructures and advanced manufacturing, but also covers related topics such as uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, model updating, model verification and validation, design under uncertainties, etc., across different disciplinaries.
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The seventh One World webinar, organized by YoungStatS, will be dedicated to Novel Algebraic Approaches to Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Selected young researchers active in the area of algebraic statistics will present their recent contributions on this topic.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics
The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.
São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications
This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor or a Tenured Associate Professor at EPFL
The School of Basic Sciences and the School of Engineering at EPFL seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant Professor or a Tenured Associate Professor jointly between the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Materials.
Ideal candidates would have a strong interdisciplinary breadth rather than focus on specific subfields. Indicative fields of interest include, but are not restricted to, multi-scale modelling, topological properties of materials, soft matter, efficient and accurate electronic-structure algorithms, statistical mechanics of emergent phenomena, numerical methods for very high dimensional problems, theory of data-driven algorithms applied to materials discovery. Priority will be given to the overall originality and promise of the candidate’s work over any particular specialization area, and to the demonstrated attitude of the candidate to straddle the divide between rigorous mathematics and impactful applications to material modeling and theory. Candidates should hold a PhD and have an excellent record of scientific accomplishments, commensurate to the level of experience. In addition, commitment to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels is expected. Proficiency in French teaching is not required, but willingness to learn the language is expected.
Applications including a cover letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of publications, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact informationof at least three (for the rank of Assistant Professor) or five (for the rank of Associate Professor) references who are ready to supply a letter upon request, should be submitted in PDF format via https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/34865152 by November 15 2021. Enquiries may be addressed to Co-Chairs of the Search Committee: Prof. Harm-Anton Klok, Director of the Institute of Materials (IMX), and Prof. Victor Panaretos
Director of the Institute of Mathematics (MATH), (e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Two Bernoulli Instructorships in Analysis and in Statistics at EPFL
The Institute of Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) invites applications for two full-time Bernoulli Instructorships in 1) Analysis (including related areas in Stochastics) and 2) Statistics. Bernoulli Instructors are expected to teach courses in their broader domain at all levels (in French or English). The initial teaching load is light, corresponding to half the teaching load of regular faculty, and gradually progresses to the latter.
Bernoulli Instructors are expected to develop and sustain an excellent independent research program. They are welcome to collaborate and encouraged to interact with members of the Institute, but they maintain full research independence. They are offered travel support.
The EPFL actively aims to increase the presence of women amongst its employees, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Tenure-Track Position in Statistics at CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT-CONACYT: http://www.cimat.mx/ ) in Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico, seeks applications from ambitious, highly
motivated and talented individuals with a PhD, earned in the last fifteen years, in the area of Statistics or closely related disciplines for a tenure-track research position, to start any time between May and August 2022. Applicants are expected to be working on modern research fields in statistics, namely
one or the intersection of, complex data and/or massive data analyses, complex models, computer
intensive methodologies, considering both theory and applications. Additionally to the latter,
applicants working in the interface with Probability Theory are specially sought. Applicants must meet the following requirements to be considered for the position: 1) An academic career with scientific achievements in accordance with the length of time passed after
the doctorate. Mexican residents must be members of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)
or have the appropriate academic achievements to successfully participate in the next SNI call; 2) Teaching experience in Statistics is desirable, in order to train students at undergraduate, master
and doctoral levels. Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required for the first years.
Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Bojana Milošević This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th.
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The Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointment
Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Torun, Poland) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society and Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) became the President-Elect. We thank previous President Claudia Klüppelberg for her dedicated work and steering of the society in the past years.
In addition, new ordinary Council Members were introduced: David Aldous (University of California, USA); Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University, Canada); Marie-Colette van Lieshout (CWI and University of Twente, Netherlands); Rolando Rebolledo (Valparaiso University, Chile); Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft, Netherlands).
Approved were also Johan Segers (UCLouvain, Belgium) as the new Treasurer (starting from January 2022); Marcos A. Valdebenito (Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile) as the new Chair of C(PS)^2; Gerda Claeskens (KU Leuven, Belgium) as the new Chair of ERC; Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (CIMAT, Mexico) as the new Chair of LARC; Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) as the new Chair of EAPRC (starting from January 2022).
Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members
At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held online on July 8th, 2021, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Adam Jakubowski (President of the BS), Victor Panaretos (President-Elect, Chair), Herold Dehling, Leonardo Rolla, Christina Goldschmidt, Marcos Valdebenito, Gesine Reinert, Gerda Claeskens, Zengjing Chen, Juan Carlos Pardo Millán and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2023-2025) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2023-2027. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Victor Panaretos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by December 31st, 2021.
Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich) has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize
The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years. The name of the prize recognizes the historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. The Ethel Newbold Prize is generously supported by Wiley.
The webinar "Concentration inequality in Machine Learning" organized by the Young Researchers Committee of the Bernoulli Society will take place on September 15th at 5 pm (CEST). Selected young European researchers active in probability and machine learning will present their recent contributions. The seminar is a joint cooperation with the One World YoungStatS project.
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22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)
The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.
International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics
The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.
São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications
This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.
Head of the LSM at PSI and
Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics at EPFL
The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) jointly seek to appoint a dynamic personality with strategic thinking abilities as Head of the Laboratory for Simulation and Modeling (LSM) at PSI, and as tenured Full Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at EPFL. This is a full-time position. With the research activities being primarily located at PSI, demonstrated research excellence in the development and analysis of methods for data-intensive science and high-performance computing in a multi-physics context is expected. Due to the multi- and interdisciplinarity of the LSM, there is a particular interest for a strongly integrative personality with a wide background in natural and engineering sciences. Demonstrated leadership experience and scientific management skills, as well as a strong interest for teaching and education, are essential.
Applications including a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact information of at least five references who are ready to supply their letter upon request, should be submitted in PDF format via https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/33980418 by October 31 2021. Enquiries may be addressed to Prof. Victor Panaretos, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and
Prof. Andreas Pautz, Director of the Nuclear Energy and Safety Division, PSI (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Additional information is available at https://www.psi.ch, https://www.epfl.ch, https://sb.epfl.ch,https://math.epfl.ch.
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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications ________________________________________
Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Bojana Milošević This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th.
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General News ________________________________________
The Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointment
Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Torun, Poland) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society and Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) became the President-Elect. We thank previous President Claudia Klüppelberg for her dedicated work and steering of the society in the past years.
In addition, new ordinary Council Members were introduced: David Aldous (University of California, USA); Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University, Canada); Marie-Colette van Lieshout (CWI and University of Twente, Netherlands); Rolando Rebolledo (Valparaiso University, Chile); Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft, Netherlands).
Approved were also Johan Segers (UCLouvain, Belgium) as the new Treasurer (starting from January 2022); Marcos A. Valdebenito (Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile) as the new Chair of C(PS)^2; Gerda Claeskens (KU Leuven, Belgium) as the new Chair of ERC; Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (CIMAT, Mexico) as the new Chair of LARC; Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) as the new Chair of EAPRC (starting from January 2022).
Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members
At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held online on July 8th, 2021, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Adam Jakubowski (President of the BS), Victor Panaretos (President-Elect, Chair), Herold Dehling, Leonardo Rolla, Christina Goldschmidt, Marcos Valdebenito, Gesine Reinert, Gerda Claeskens, Zengjing Chen, Juan Carlos Pardo Millán and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2023-2025) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2023-2027. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Victor Panaretos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by December 31st, 2021.
Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich) has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize
The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years. The name of the prize recognizes the historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. The Ethel Newbold Prize is generously supported by Wiley.
The webinar "Concentration inequality in Machine Learning" organized by the Young Researchers Committee of the Bernoulli Society will take place on September 15th at 5 pm (CEST). Selected young European researchers active in probability and machine learning will present their recent contributions. The seminar is a joint cooperation with the One World YoungStatS project.
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22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)
The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.
International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics
The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.
São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications
This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.
Head of the LSM at PSI and Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics at EPFL
The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) jointly seek to appoint a dynamic personality with strategic thinking abilities as Head of the Laboratory for Simulation and Modeling (LSM) at PSI, and as tenured Full Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at EPFL. This is a full-time position. With the research activities being primarily located at PSI, demonstrated research excellence in the development and analysis of methods for data-intensive science and high-performance computing in a multi-physics context is expected. Due to the multi- and interdisciplinarity of the LSM, there is a particular interest for a strongly integrative personality with a wide background in natural and engineering sciences. Demonstrated leadership experience and scientific management skills, as well as a strong interest for teaching and education, are essential. Applications including a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact information of at least five references who are ready to supply their letter upon request, should be submitted in PDF format via https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/33980418 by October 31 2021. Enquiries may be addressed to Prof. Victor Panaretos, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Prof. Andreas Pautz, Director of the Nuclear Energy and Safety Division, PSI (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Additional information is available at https://www.psi.ch, https://www.epfl.ch, https://sb.epfl.ch, https://math.epfl.ch.
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Virtual Bernoulli Society General Assembly (GA)
The Bernoulli Society General Assembly will be held virtually on Thursday, July 8th 2021, 13:00-14:30 UTC (15:00-15:30 Central European Summer Time, 09:00-10:30 US Eastern Daylight Time, 21:00-22:30 China Standard Time). Reports from the Executive Committee members and a summary on Bernoulli Society’s other activities and initiatives will be available via a web-link after registration in the Zoom meeting. While members can ask questions directly in the GA, members can also ask questions about the subjects mentioned in the GA document and the agenda up to 72 hours prior to the meeting on July 8th, which will be answered during the meeting. Questions can be sent to the Scientific Secretary Song Xi Chen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2021
The New Researcher Award recognizes the work of outstanding young researchers who are members of the Bernoulli Society. This year the award was for innovative contributions in the field of Mathematical Statistics. Out of 22 applicants, the award committee chose the following new researchers for the award: Fang Han (University of Washington), Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University) and Anru Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Each of the above awardees is invited to deliver an invited talk at the Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award Session at the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, which takes place virtually from July 11-16, 2021. They received funding from the Bernoulli Society for their conference registration.
Ewain Gwynne wins inaugural David G. Kendall Award
The David G. Kendall award for young researchers is awarded jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Royal Statistical Society 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 Bernoulli Society is proud to announce that the inaugural award for 2021 is given to Ewain Gwynne (University of Chicago).
Willem van Zwet Medal awarded to Maria Eulália Vares
Our dear colleague Maria Eulália Vares has been awarded the inaugural Willem van Zwet Medal for Special Service to the Bernoulli Society in recognition of her outstanding service to the Bernoulli Society as member and chair of the Publications Committee, and as editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA). She played a key part in negotiations with Elsevier concerning the Bernoulli Society’s journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications, showing great leadership in helping to obtain better prices and open access conditions for SPA and initiation of Elsevier's support for young researchers and students to participate in Bernoulli Society sponsored meetings, among other benefits. She has also served the Latin American Regional Committee and joined in organization of Bernoulli-sponsored events such as the Brazilian School of Probability, thus promoting the development of Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Latin America.
This quadrennial joint meeting is of steadily increasing importance to the scientific vitality of the fields of statistics and probability and their applications. This Congress will have 14 (plenary) named lectures, one public lecture, 40 invited sessions featuring 120 speakers, a number of Contributed talks, and Poster sessions. The Scientific Program Committee, consisting of more than 20 renowned researchers and chaired by Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute), has organized the key lectures which include:
The Bernoulli Society and the IMS are co-sponsoring a two-day pre-meeting for young researchers right before the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Korea. The main objectives of the pre-meeting in 2021 are: (1) to stimulate interest of international young researchers in a rapidly emerging field; (2) to give support and perspective to young researchers with regard to mapping out their future career - especially for participants from developing countries; and (3) to allow young researchers with common research interests to network amongst their peer group. The two-day Young Researchers pre-meeting 2021 dedicates the first day to the academic theme of Data Science. The second day is dedicated to a series of presentations and group discussions that pertain to career development. This is complemented by several mini-talks, group discussion, and poster session by the young participants.
The scientific programme will introduce the latest developments in statistical research and practice through presentations, discussions and a series of short courses; the virtual exhibition will showcase the work and products of those who support our profession. Everyone working in the field of Statistics is welcome to join virtually for the 63rd WSC.
Early bird registration deadline: June 11, 2021.
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The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a recognized society representing mathematicians throughout Europe. The European Congress of Mathematics is organized every four years and is the second largest event of mathematics in the world. This congress will feature the Bernoulli-EMS lecture delivered by Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyon, CNRS).
The conference brings together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and its Applications. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh. Short courses will be held on 26-27 June 2021.
22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)
The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.
International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
June 27 - July 1, 2022 Wuhan, China
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
33rd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS 2022)
July 18 - 22, 2022 Moscow, Russia https://ems2022.org/ The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications ________________________________________
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 45 April 2021
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*** Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC)
Due to the situation around the COVID-19, travel restrictions and the uncertainty of worldwide participation, the Organizing Committee has decided to convert the 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics into a Virtual Congress based on Zoom format for the planned period, in consideration of our participants’ safety as well as their intellectual aspirations. Therefore, we would like to invite all our global members to participate in the Virtual. This quadrennial joint meeting is of steadily increasing importance to the scientific vitality of the fields of statistics and probability and their applications. This Congress will have 14 (plenary) named lectures, one public lecture, 40 invited sessions featuring 120 speakers, a number of Contributed talks, and Poster sessions.
***Bernoulli-IMS Young Researchers Pre-Meeting 2021
The Bernoulli Society and the IMS are co-sponsoring a two-day pre-meeting for young researchers right before the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Korea. The main objectives of the pre-meeting in 2021 are: (1) to stimulate interest of international young researchers in a rapidly emerging field; (2) to give support and perspective to young researchers with regard to mapping out their future career - especially for participants from developing countries; and (3) to allow young researchers with common research interests to network amongst their peer group. The two-day Young Researchers pre-meeting 2021 dedicates the first day to the academic theme of Data Science. The second day is dedicated to a series of presentations and group discussions that pertain to career development. This is complemented by several mini-talks, group discussion, and poster session by the young participants.
***63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The scientific programme will introduce the latest developments in statistical research and practice through presentations, discussions and a series of short courses; the virtual exhibition will showcase the work and products of those who support our profession. Everyone working in the field of Statistics is welcome to join us virtually for the 63rd WSC.
Other Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The conference brings together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and its Applications. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh. Short courses will be held on 26-27 June 2021.
***22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)
The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
June 27 - July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
***33rd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS 2022)
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 44 February 2021
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RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
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***Nominations open for the Willem van Zwet Medal
The Bernoulli Society has launched the Willem van Zwet Medal, to be awarded for special service to the Bernoulli Society. Nominations should be communicated by email to the Willem van Zwet Medal committee at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for nominations is noon GMT, 15 March 2021. For more information, visithttp://www.bernoulli-society.org/news/53-general/323-willem-van-zwet-medal.
***Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2022
The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications to the New Researcher Award 2022. Each awardee shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the 42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in 2022, and will receive a funding up to 1000€
***Nomination Committee on New President-Elect and Council Members
The Nomination Committee, chaired by the President-Elect Adam Jakubowski, sent their report to the Scientific Secretary in September 2020 with the following list of candidates:
- President-Elect: Victor Panaretos (EPFL, Switzerland), commencing in August 2023 in succession to the next President Adam Jakubowski.
Six ordinary members of the Council for a four-year term from August 2021 to August 2025:
- David Aldous (University of California, USA)
- Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University, Canada)
- Marie-Colette van Lieshout (University of Twente, Netherlands)
- Rolando Rebolledo (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile)
- Aad van der Vaart (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
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 2020. According to Section 9 of the Statutes, these candidates are declared elected without vote, pending final approval at the next General Assembly in July 2021.
***Nominations for the LARC of the Bernoulli Society
The current members of the Latin American Regional Committee (LARC) nominate the following candidates for the renewal of the committee:
- Manuel Cabezas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
- Inés Armendáriz (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Stella Brassesco (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela)
- Arno Siri-Jégousse (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
As the number of candidates is equal to the number of vacant places, all candidates shall be considered elected. The new members’ term shall begin on April 1, 2021 for a period of four years.
***Conformation of C(PS)^2 Committee 2021-2022
The proposed new formation for the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences is composed of 5 members who already served in the past term and 7 new members, plus the elected chairman (Marcos Valdebenito).
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Itspurpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The conference brings together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and its Applications. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh. Short courses will be held on 26-27 June 2021.
***63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The scientific programme will introduce the latest developments in statistical research and practice through presentations, discussions and a series of short courses; the virtual exhibition will showcase the work and products of those who support our profession. Everyone working in the field of Statistics is welcome to join us virtually for the 63rd WSC.
***22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)
The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)
The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
June 27 - July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
***33rd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS 2022)
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.
Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 42 September 2020
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***Bernoull-IMS One World Symposium is a success
The virtual one week symposium on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, was held from August 24 to 28, 2020 . There were 4 plenary speakers and 7 (young research awardees) early career speakers who gave live talks (two times each) to a worldwide audience. The main part of the program contained 23 live discussion sessions conducted over a 24 hour clock across various time-zones. These sessions featured a selection of 600 prerecorded research talks that were uploaded by researchers from across the world. Over 2500 participants registered worldwide, interacting outside of talk in zoom rooms via virtual coffee gardens and ice breaker sessions. Our many congratulations to Leif Doring (Chair) and the organizing committee for a successful hosting of a very innovative symposium. The recordings are still available for a short period athttps://www.worldsymposium2020.org/
***ISI-WSC 2021 goes virtual and ISI-WSC 2023 in Ottawa
The biennial World Statistics Congress 2021 scheduled to take place in July 2021 at The Hague will be held virtually. This is an opportunity to host a more inclusive conference than ever before. It will allow for the greatest ever participation, reaching out to a wide diversity of members who would not otherwise be able to afford to attend an international conference, at lower costs, and with a lower carbon footprint. The ISI also announced that the World Statistics Congress 2023 will be held in Ottawa, Canada during July 15-20, in the Shaw Centre, in the heart of the city.
***Call for nominations Newbold Prize 2021
The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the fourth Ethel Newbold Prize. The prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years, next time in Spring 2021 and is generously supported by Wiley. Nominations as well as any inquiries about the award should be sent to Jon Wellner: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for accepting nominations is November 30, 2020. More details are provided at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=207
***Nominations sought for 2021 COPSS Awards
The Bernoulli Society is a Friends of COPSS, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, who organizes an awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings recognizing outstanding members in the statistical profession. Nominations are sought for the Presidents’ Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, the F.N. David Award and Lectureship, and the George W. Snedecor Award, to be presented at the 2021 JSM in Seattle. For more information, see https://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/nominations
***Nominations for the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society
According to the statutes of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, eight of the sixteen members will step down by the end of 2020. In addition, one member is stepping down early for personal reasons. As a result, nine new members need to be elected for a four-year term starting on Jan 1st 2021.
The European Regional Committee nominates the following candidates:
Axel Bücher, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Mathias Drton, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Sebastian Engelke, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Anne-Laure Fougères, University of Lyon, France
Pauliina Ilmonen, Aalto University, Finland
Sonia Petrone, Bocconi University, Italy
Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lukas Steinberger, University of Vienna, Austria
Botond Szabó, Leiden University, The Netherlands
A group of at least five European members of the Bernoulli Society can nominate further candidates. Additional nominations should be sent by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., including documentation of the support of the five nominating members and of the willingness of the nominees to serve on the committee. Additional nominations will force an election among European members of the Bernoulli Society. If no further nominations are received by Friday December 10th 2020, the nine candidates listed above will be declared elected.
***Nominations for the chair of C(PS)^2
The present chair of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences, Michael Beer, steps down by the end of 2020. As a result, a new chair needs to be selected for a two-year term starting on Jan 1st 2021. Nominations should be sent by September 30 to the Scientific Secretary Song Xi Chen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
***One World Extremes Seminar
Inspired by the One World Probability Project and supported by the Bernoulli Society, the One World Extremes Seminar is an initiative to keep researchers with an interest in Extreme Value Theory (EVT) virtually connected in novel ways. It features both theoretical advances and important applications of EVT. Visit the official seminar webpage https://sites.google.com/view/ow-extremes/
***In Memoriam: Willem R. van Zwet
Former BS President Willem R. van Zwet passed away on July 2, 2020 in Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, at the age of 86. He had served the Bernoulli Society in several eminent functions, most notably as member and chair of the European Regional Committee (1969–1980) that organizes the European Meetings of Statisticians, as BS President (1987–1989), and as Editor-in-Chief of Bernoulli (2000-2003). In the early 1970s Willem was among the founding fathers of the Bernoulli Society. The Bernoulli Society and the academic world of Stochastics mourn the loss of one of their most eminent members. Visit https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/news-featured/20196-in-memoriam-willem-van-zwet
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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC)
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Itspurpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2020)
The conference has been postponed to 2021 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The conference brings together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and its Applications. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh. Short courses will be held on 26-27 June 2021.
***63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. It brings together statisticians and data scientists from academia, health sector and business, junior and senior professionals, in an inviting environment.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
June 27 - July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
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Job Offers
* Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at Umeå University, Sweden. The Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor in machine learning. The position is intended for independent research and comes with a substantial resource package to enable the successful candidate to build up their own research group. Priority is given to applicants with a PhD awarded at most five years ago. Deadline is September 7, 2020. Apply at https://umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken=1f3b5d1d5d605fff95e2de7e4a3e8df525c3ba181
* Assistant Professor in Mathematical Statistics at Umeå University, Sweden.
The Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor in mathematical statistics with specialization in non-convex inference and learning. The position is intended for independent research and comes with a substantial resource package to enable the successful candidate to build up their own research group. Priority is given to applicants with a PhD awarded at most five years ago. Deadline is September 13, 2020. Apply at https://umu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:342357/type:job/where:4/apply:1
* Faculty Position in Applied Mathematics at EPFL. The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne seeks to appoint a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics. There is particular interest in outstanding candidates whose research centers on the mathematical foundations of learning, with emphasis on: approximation theory, high dimensional statistics, applied analysis and probability. Enquiries may be addressed to Victor PanaretosThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications should be uploaded (as PDFs) by September 30, 2020 to https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/positiondetails/23691269
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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
Dear Members of the Bernoulli Society,These are times of hardship and worry for all of us, and I hope that we will survive this without great damage. As more or less expected, we had to postpone our World Congress in Seoul this August, due to travel restrictions worldwide, but also out of responsibility for our speakers and participants, also for all local helpers. Our sympathy is with all of them, and in particular with the local organizing committee, led by Hee-Seok Oh, and all other colleagues who have worked so hard for many years for this important Congress to happen. The Bernoulli-IMS World Congress has been postponed to July 19-23, 2021. The Young Researcher Meeting will also be postponed and happen during July 17-18, 2021.
I am grateful to all colleagues, who have started virtual seminars and workshops. The Bernoulli Society is very happy to help distribute these activities, and you find some examples below, and on our website. In particular, in these times it is important to keep our community in close contact, as by offering some initiatives in particular to young researchers. Please send such announcements to the publicity secretary Leonardo T. Rolla <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> for processing.Hopefully we all stay healthy and in good spirits!
Claudia Klüppelberg (President of the Bernoulli Society)
Nike Sun (MIT) has been awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize. The Prize 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. The committee was chaired by Zhen-Qing Chen and consisted of Vladimir Bogachev, Takashi Kumagai, Michel Ledoux, Fabio Martinelli, Lea Popovic, Laurent Saloff-Coste. Congratulations! The list of past recipients can be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/15-features/169-doeblin-prize-previous-prize-recipients
Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC) [Annual BS Meeting]
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
[POSTPONED] ***40th Finnish Summer School on Probability and Statistics
The mission of this traditional summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. Advanced MSc students, fresh postdocs and everyone in the research and applied field are also encouraged to apply.
[POSTPONED] ***23rd Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics
Since 1991, the annual conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics brings together academics and students from Romania and abroad to discuss recent developments in research in probability theory and mathematical statistics. This year, the conference will be held at UPT (Politehnica University of Timisoara).
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, taking place in 2020 at the University of Nevada. Itspurpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
[POSTPONED] ***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2020)
The conference will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
[!]***International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students. It will be decided on April 20 if the conference can be held as planned.
Because of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) the XXIV EBP/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their application that is supposed to take place at Campinas University in the weeks of July 28 to August 8, 2020 may not go ahead as planned. A decision about it will be taken around mid of May. However, at this moment we still do not want to postpone the event to a later date, and to adjust to the new situation we extended the deadline to apply for financial support to the 30th of April.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. It brings together statisticians and data scientists from academia, health sector and business, junior and senior professionals, in an inviting environment.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2021)
July 12 - 16, 2021
Wuhan, China
SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. The next iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
***Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members
At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held during the 62ndISI World Statistics Congress in Kuala Lumpur, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Claudia Klüpperbeg (President of the BS), Adam Jakubowski (President-Elect, Chair), Juan Carlos Abril, Michael Beer, Herod Dehling, Zenghu Li, Marloes Maathuis, Aihua Xia and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2021-2023) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2021-2025. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Adam Jakubowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)byMarch 31st, 2020.
***Friends of COPSS
The Bernoulli Society has become a Friend of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: https://community.amstat.org/copss/friends . The Friends of COPSS are affiliated professional societies that also promote discovery and practice of statistical science, but do not hold member status in COPSS. This designation provides an organizational structure to encourage communication and partnerships among statistical societies with an international perspective and broad range of interests.
***New Bernoulli Society Treasurer
Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge, UK) has become our new Treasurer, succeeding Lynne Billard. Many thanks to Lynne for her hard work over the last years!
***New Chair of CCSP
Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford University) has been elected as the new Chair of the Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes (CCSP) for a two-year term 2020-2021. We thank the previous chair Zhen-Qing Chen for his service!
***Bernoulli Journal Lecture at 63rdISI World Congress
Johannes Schmid-Hieber (University of Twente) was chosen to give the Bernoulli Journal Lecture at the World Statistics Congress (ISI-WSC 2021) in The Hague. Details on Johannes’ research can be found at https://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~schmidtaj/.
***Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article
The 3rd Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article was awarded to Alexei Borodin and Leonid Petrov for the article Integrable probability: From representation theory to Macdonaldprocesses. Probability Surveys, v.11:1-58, 2014. Congratulations! More information on the prize at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=156 .
***SLAPEM announces winners of 2019 Aranda-Ordaz Prize
The winners were announced during the XV CLAPEM in Mérida, México. For Statistics, they were Leonardo Fabián Moreno Romero (Uruguay) and María Antonella Gieco (Argentina). In the field of Probability, the winner was Avelio Sepúlveda (Switzerland) and there was an honorable mention for Érika B. Roldán Roa (México). Congratulations to all!
***Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2021
The BS welcomes applications for the award. Each awardee shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the ISI-WSC 2021, and will receive a funding up to 1000€ to offset travel and other expenses. Bernoulli News will publish their pictures and a paragraph about their work. Eligible candidates are active researchers in Mathematical Statistics who obtained the PhD degree on or after March 1st, 2015, and who are regular members of the Bernoulli Society. Female candidates get 1 extra year for each child born since receiving the PhD.
Candidates should apply through the web formhttps://forms.gle/6GPPnU6FP59vJ9ev6 and send required documents to the e-mail address indicated there. Deadline isMarch 1st, 2020.
***Site visit to Bochum
On January 28, 2020, Claudia Klüppelberg, President of the Bernoulli Society, and Adam Jakubowski, President-Elect, visited Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the site of the 11thBernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics to be held in 2024. The inspection of the infrastructure as well as the meeting with members of the Local Organizing Committee confirmed that the preparations to the World Congress 2024 are on the right track.
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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
***Bernoulli-IMS 10thWorld Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC) [Annual BS Meeting]
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University. Registration is already open and the deadline for abstract submission isMarch 31st, 2020.
***23rd Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics
Since 1991, the annual conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics brings together academics and students from Romania and abroad to discuss recent developments in research in probability theory and mathematical statistics. This year, the conference will be held at UPT (Politehnica University of Timisoara).
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, taking place in 2020 at the University of Nevada. Itspurpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2020)
The conference will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***63rdISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. It brings together statisticians and data scientists from academia, health sector and business, junior and senior professionals, in an inviting environment.
***42ndConference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2021)
July 12 - 16, 2021
Wuhan, China
SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. The next iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
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Job Offers
*Assistant Professor at Universidade de São Paulo. The Statistics department at Universidade de São Paulo invites applications for two assistant professor full-time positions in Probability and Statistics. Applications are welcome in any research areas in Probability and Statistics that complement and strengthen the current research of members of the Statistics department at USP. The position-holders will develop, lead and sustain research of international standard in Probability and/or Statistics, contribute to teaching and project supervision at undergraduate and graduate levels. Deadline isMarch 24, 2020. Applications only at:https://uspdigital.usp.br/gr/admissao
*Professorship in Stochastics at Ulm University. The Faculty of Mathematics and Economics, Institute of Stochastics, is seeking to fill the position, starting 1 October 2020, of Professor (W3) of Stochastics (m/f/d). Candidates should have an internationally outstanding research and teaching record in Stochastics (Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics). The research focus should be in the area of Stochastics. Research with references to applications in the natural or life sciences or in engineering as well as experience in the acquistion of third party funding are desirable. Full details can be found at:https://stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/7b759fc376141bdb746c0b8009e7435c663aa49b
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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZfor the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.