Committee Work
The main event of the LARC, CLAPEM (Congreso Latinoamericano de
Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática) on its VIIIth edition, took
place on 12-16 November 2001 in Havana, Cuba with 196 participants
from 20 countries.
Francisco Aranda Ordaz Award honours the best Ph.D. thesis in
Probability and Mathematical Statistics of a Latin American student
between two editions of the CLAPEM. During the VIII CLAPEM (see above)
and among a very significant number of high-quality theses,
the jury, chaired by Prof. Guido del Pino, decided to award
Gabriel Huerta (Mexico),
Bayesian Analysis of Latent Structure in Time Series
at Duke University (1998), advisor Mike West;
and selected for mention:
- Chiann Chang (Brazil),
Analise de ondeletas en series temporais
at U.de Sao Paulo (1997), advisor Pedro Morettin;
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Alberto Contreras (Mexico),
Advances in the analysis of time series using wavelets,
at Imperial College, U.of London (1998),
advisor Andrew T.Walden;
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Francisco Lousada-Neto (Brasil),
Hazard Models for Lifetime Data, at U.Oxford (1998),
advisor David Cox;
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José Ramírez (Costa Rica),
Short Time Asymptotics in Dirichlet Spaces,
at Courant Institute, U.of New York (2000),
advisor S.R.S. Varadhan;
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Matías Salibián,
Contributions to the Theory of Robust Inference,
at U.of British Columbia (2000), advisor Ruben Zamar;
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Ernesto San Martín,
Latent structural models: Specification and Identification problems
at U. Catholique de Louvain (2000), advisor Michel Mouchart.
All information concerning LARC can be found in our web site
In addition, a bulletin in Spanish language is edited by
Andrea Rivero and by
Gonzalo Perera, and it
is distributed by e-mail.
All kind of information related to probability and statistics
that may be of interest for LARC members are welcome.
Gonzalo Perera
LARC, Chair
