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e-BriefsBernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 4
CONTENTS 1.- GENERAL NEWS 2.- NEWS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES 3.- EVENTS 4.- SAD NEWS 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS 6.- MEMBERSHIP For information to be considered in the next issue please contact Carenne Ludena (cludena@ivic.gob.ve) or Ramses H. Mena (ramses@sigma.iimas.unam.mx) before October 28, 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------- 1.- GENERAL NEWS * The Bernoulli Society and Bernoulli Journal have a new website check them out at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/ and http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli- journal/bernoulli-journal respectively. Also note the newly redesigned logo. Any feedback is welcome at webeditor@bernoulli-society.org * Prof. Marta Sanz-Sole has been elected as the new President of the European Mathematical Society. See http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/665 for more information. * StatProb: The encyclopedia sponsored by statistics and probability societies (http://statprob.com/), including the BS, has been recently launched. Thomas Liggett is the representative of the Bernoulli Society in the Editorial Board. 2.- NEWS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES * New members of the Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society (LARC-SLAPEM) have been elected, we welcome Carenne Ludena (Venezuela), Alicia Carriquiry (USA), Luis Renato Fontes (Brazil) and Rolando Rebolledo (Chile). The newly elected chair of the Committee is Claudio Landim (Brazil) who replaces Jose R. Leon (Venezuela). - The full list of members of the LARC can be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/about-the-bs/66 3.- EVENTS * 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Dublin, August 21-26, 2011. - Bernoulli Society Satellite meeting on Dynamic Statistical Models, Copenhagen Denmark, August 17-19. See http://statistics.ku.dk/isi-satellite/ * Workshop in Honour of Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen's 75th Birthday. Aarhus, October 13-14, 2010. Further information at http://www.thiele.au.dk/events/conferences/2010/oebn75 * The Bernoulli Society will sponsor the 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society to be held June 19-22, 2012 in Sydney. Further information will be available at http://www.bfs2012.com/ 4.- SAD NEWS * Prof. David H. Blackwell, ex-president of the BS, passed away in Berkeley, California, on Thursday, July 8, 2010, at the age of 91. Read more about his outstanding trajectory at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/07/15_blackwell.shtml * Prof. John A. Nelder passed away on Saturday, August 7, 2010 at the age of 85, see obituary at http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/reporter/2010/08/27/professor-john-nelder-frs-obituary/ * Prof. Arnold Zellner passed away on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at the age of 83, see obituary at http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2010/08/in_memoriam_of_arnold_zellner.php 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues: - Bernoulli 16(3) http://projecteuclid.org/bj - SPA 120(9-11) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa * Co-sponsored open access publications: Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist Surveys at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications * Last issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html 6.- MEMBERSHIP * From 2011 on BS will offer 70% reduction for members from developing countries plus a reduction for personal hard copy subscription of the Bernoulli Journal. The list of developing countries was also enlarged. For further information see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/news * The Applied Probability Trust will offer BS members a 15% discount for the subscription to Advances in Applied Probability and Journal of Applied Probability. More information can be found at http://www.appliedprobability.org/content.aspx?Group=journals&Page=subscriptionsPrices#jap Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 3
Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 3. Deadline to submit information for next issue: August 20, 2011. Contents 1. GENERAL NEWS 2. EVENTS 3. SAD NEWS 4. PRIZES AND FUNDING 5. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. GENERAL NEWS * The International Statistical Institute Celebrates 125th Anniversary - See http://isi.cbs.nl/isi125.html and also check out the new ISI web page * Latest News on the World Statistics Day on 20-10-2010 http://isi-web.org/news/world-statistics-day * Call for papers for Statistics and Probability Letters special issue in Statistics in Biological and Medical Sciences of Statistics and Probability Letters. Further information at http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/stapro-cfp.pdf 2. EVENTS * 5th International Workshop in Applied Probability, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Colmenarejo Campus, on July 5th-8th, 2010. - Full program already available. Further information at http://www.fundacion.uc3m.es/IWAP2010/ * 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, August 17-22, 2010. - Registration is still open. Further information at http://www.unipi.gr/ems2010/ * 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Osaka, Japan, September 6-10, 2010. - Full program already available. - Special session: "World Statistics Day: The future of societies of mathematical statistics & probability". Speakers are ISI President-Elect Jae C. Lee and BS President-Elect Edward Waymire. - Deadline for posters submission: June 30, 2010. - Deadline for registration as participant: August 15, 2010. Further information at http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/ * 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 19-24, 2011. - Check out the list of plenary speakers and invited sessions Further information at http://abalontico.matem.unam.mx/SPA/ * 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Dublin, August 21-26, 2011. - Bernoulli Society Satellite meeting on Dynamic Statistical Models, Copenhagen Denmark, August 17-19. For further information contact Susanne Ditlevsen: susanne@math.ku.dk * 8th Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Veracruz, Mexico, June 26-30, 2011. Further information at http://www.bnpworkshop.org * The Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes (CCSP) has selected Boulder, Colorado, USA, as the venue for the 36th conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications to be held in 2013, from July 29 to August 2.
3. SAD NEWS * We sadly report the passing of three great mathematicians on 3rd of June: - Paul Malliavin. See obituary at http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/M/Malliavin_Paul.htm - Vladimir Arnold. More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold - Vidmantas Kastytis Bentkus http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/vidmantas-kastytis-bentkus.htm 4. PRIZES AND FUNDING * The BS congratulates Sir David Cox FRS for receiving the Copley medal awarded by the Royal Society at its 350th anniversary. Another Copley medal went to Dr Tomas Lindahl FRS. More info at http://royalsociety.org/Royal-Society-recognises-excellence-in-science/ 5. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues: - Bernoulli 16(2) http://projecteuclid.org/bj - SPA 120(5-8) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa * Co-sponsored open access publications: Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist. Surveys at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm * Last issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html
Bernoulli E-Briefs April 2010
Dear Bernoulli Society members, This is the second issue of the Bernoulli E-Briefs, a bimonthly electronic Bulletin by the BS intended as a device for sharing latest news and relevant information with all members of our society in tight collaboration with the Bernoulli News. Speaking of the latter its latest number is about to appear and includes the transcription of the opening lecture of the Fifth World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, "Notes about the Bernoulli Society" by Jef L. Teugels, reminiscences and highlights of the second World Congress in Uppsala by Allan Gut as well as interesting book reviews and news on recently held and forthcoming events. We have received news on forthcoming events which we include in this number and once again invite our BS colleagues to use Bernoulli E-Briefs for short notice information. Yours truly, Carenne Ludena and Ramses H. Mena cludena@ivic.gob.ve and ramses@sigma.iimas.unam.mx Contents 1. General News 2. Events 3. Sad News 4. Editorial News 5. Prizes and funding 6. Recently released issues of BS official and sponsored publications 1. GENERAL NEWS * Arnoldo Frigessi has accepted to chair the Program Committee of the 8th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, July 2012. Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çaglar have been appointed as co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee. * The May 2010 issue of Stochastic Processes and their Applications – one of the official journals of the Bernoulli Society – is a tribute to Kiyosi Itô. A word of appreciation to Elsevier´s fortunate gesture of granting a perpetual free access to this issue on the journal website. More information in Section 6 of this Bernoulli E-Briefs. 2. EVENTS *8th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. Put down this date in your calendars. *34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Application in Osaka, Japan, September 6-10. http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/ *28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, August 17-22. Deadline for contributed talks and posters, 20 April 2010. *58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Dublin, August 21-26, 2011. * The BS, as an ISI section, will sponsor Invited Paper Sessions (IPS), Special Topics Sessions (STS) and Satellite meetings. People are encouraged to propose STS and Satellite meetings attractive to the members of our Society. * Information about previous editions of the ISI Congress can be found at http://www.statssa.gov.za/isi2009/ and http://www.isi2007.com.pt/isi2007/. Further information and deadlines at http://www.isi2011.ie/ *IMS 2010 Gothenburg Institute of Mathematical Statistics 73rd Annual Meeting, Aug 9-13, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden * Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2010 * Deadline for early registration fee: June 1, 2010 Further information at http://www.ims-gothenburg.com *Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy. June 11, 2010. Deadline for registration: 31 May, 2010. Further information at http://www.carloalberto.org/stats_workshop.html *TIES 2010 - the 21th Annual Conference of The International Envirometrics Society, Margarita Island, Venezuela June 20-25, 2010. Theme: Sustaining our environment under changing conditions: quantitative methodological challenges More information at http://www.cesma.usb.ve/ties2010/default_10.html *Calendar of ISI events at http://isi.cbs.nl/calendar.htm 3. SAD NEWS *Professor Lester Dubins passed away on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. See obituary at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/obituary-lester-eli-dubins.htm 4. NEW MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE *New BS Council Member: Julia Brettschneider. See the whole composition of the Council at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/executive.htm
5. PRIZES AND FUNDING *Iain Johnstone named recipient of Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Medal in Silver *The prize winners for the Rollo Davidson Trust 2010 are: * Gady Kozma (Weizmann Institute) for work on random walks in the contexts of loop-erasure and percolation * Sourav Chatterjee (University of California at Berkeley) for work on Stein's method, spin glasses and concentration of measure. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/index.html *Harrison Zhou receives 2010 IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award http://www.imstat.org/news/2010/03/04/1267708789541.html *Elsevier and the journal of SPA are sponsoring two travel grants of 500 EUR each to attend the 6th International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications (26.07.2010 - 30.07.2010), TU Dresden, Germany. To apply send CV including list of publications and a poster draft to levy2010@tu-dresden.de with the subject "SPA Elsevier Travel Award" in your e-mail header. *ISI's World Bank Fund offers limited funding for applicants from developing countries to attend the 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications and the 28th European Meeting of Statisticians. http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/WorldBankFunds-info.htm 6. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS *Recent issues: -Bernoulli 16(1) http://projecteuclid.org/bj -SPA 120(5) A tribute to Kiyosi Itô. Edited by Marc Yor and Maria E.Vares http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa with OPEN ACCESS to this issue *Co-sponsored open access publications: Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist. Surveys at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm *Last issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html
Bernoulli E-Briefs February 2010
This is the first issue of the Bernoulli E-Briefs, an electronic Bulletin of the BS intended as a device to share in brief manner latest news and relevant information with all members of our society, in tight collaboration with the Bernoulli News which is published twice a year and our website http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm. Thus, the character of the three communication channels would be complementary to each other. Bernoulli E-Briefs will arrive directly to the BS members' email inbox five times per year in February, April, June, September and November. It will include up to date brief information and will bring your attention to programmed events and their important deadlines, links to recently released official or co-sponsored publications of the BS, special funding opportunities, job offers, prizes as well as advances and summary notices of forthcoming articles in the Bernoulli News. All members are welcome to send information they would like to have posted promptly in brief manner. We hope you find it useful. The editors, Carenne Ludena and Ramses H. Mena Contents 1. General News 2. Events 3. Sad News 4. Editorial News 5. News from Standing Committees 6. Prizes and funding 7. Recently released issues of BS official and sponsored publications 8. Membership 1. GENERAL NEWS *20.10.2010 has been declared the first World Statistics Day by the Statistical Commission of the United Nations. 2. EVENTS *34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Application in Osaka, Japan, September 6-10. Registration is now open. Important deadlines include * Early Discount: 31 May, 2010 * Registration to Participate: 15 August, 2010 * Registration of Abstracts: 30 June, 2010 * Application for Contributed Talk: 31 May, 2010 * Application for Poster Session: Around End of July, 2010 Further information http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/ (limited funds from the ISI's World Bank Fund to attend this event for applicants from developing countries: details in Prizes and Funding) *28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, August 17-22. Deadline for contributed talks and posters, 20 April 2010. (limited funds to ISI Sections from the ISI's World Bank Fund to attend this event for applicants from developing countries: details in Prizes and Funding). *ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, August 13-17. Deadline for contributed talks and posters, 15 March 2010. http://www.isibang.ac.in/~statmath/icmprobsat/ *Fifth International Workshop in Applied Probability Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, July 5-8, 2010 Deadlines for contributed talks, 5 March 2010. http://www.fundacion.uc3m.es/IWAP2010/Index.html *10th International Vilnius Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 28-July 2 2010. http://www.vilniusconference10.com 3. SAD NEWS *Miguel Angel Arcones died on December 30, 2009. See obituary at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/obituary-miguel-angel-arcones.htm 4. EDITORIAL NEWS *Richard Davis new Editor of Bernoulli, starting January, 2010. *David Ruppert new Editor of the Electronic Journal of Statistics (EJS), starting January 2010. *Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Statistical Review on Energy Statistics. http://isi.cbs.nl/ISR/Call_for_Papers_EnergyStatistics.pdf 5. NEWS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES *The new chair of the Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes (CCSP) is James Norris, Cambridge, UK. See the whole new composition of the CCSP at http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bsCCSP.htm 6. PRIZES AND FUNDING *ISI's World Bank Fund offers limited funding for applicants from developing countries to attend the 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications and the 28th European Meeting of Statisticians. See http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/WorldBankFunds-info.htm 7. RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BS OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS *Recent issues: Bernoulli 16(1) http://projecteuclid.org/bj SPA 120(4) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044149 *Co-sponsored open access publications http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm *Last issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html *Deadline for next issue of Bernoulli News is March 31, 2010 8. MEMBERSHIP *Remember to renew your 2010 membership; prices are the same as for 2009 *For 2010 Ph.D. students join Bernoulli Society for free and new members and post-docs obtain 50% reduced membership rate. *Do you know all the benefits of the membership of the Bernoulli Society? Visit our website http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm ************************************************************************ |