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The eprint archive arxiv.org now covers both probability under math.PR (front.math.ucdavis.edu/search?c=PR) and statistics under math.ST (front.math.ucdavis.edu/search?c=ST). Richard Gill represented the Bernoulli Society in the initiative to create math.ST: see Richard’s article “Statistics to join arXiv?” in the May 2004 issue of Bernoulli News for more background on this.
As a result of a decision of Council in Barcelona, authors of papers in the Bernoulli Society’s official journal Bernoulli will retain the right to place the final versions of accepted papers on their institutional website and arXiv. The Society’s copyright form is being modified accordingly.
— Don Dawson
(Bernoulli Society President)
The 56
th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) will take place 22-29 August 2007, in Lisbon, Portugal. The Bernoulli Society Program Committee (see description below) will work in coordination with the ISI Program Coordinating Committee (chaired by Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva) to prepare Invited Paper Sessions focusing on topics of interest to the Bernoulli Section members. The Committee cordially invites all Bernoulli Section members to submit proposals for invited paper sessions. Please submit proposals to the Bernoulli Section Program Committee Chair, Jane-Ling Wang ( wang@wald.ucdavis.edu ).All members can also submit non-Section related proposals for invited paper sessions to the ISI General Topics Committee Chair, Richard Smith ( rls@email.unc.edu ). The General Topics Committee ensures that those areas of statistics that are not covered by the ISI Sections are represented in the invited papers program.
For instructions and proposal forms, see: www.cbs.nl/isi/07session/56thsessionInvitedPapers.htm
The deadline for submission is 15 January 2005. All proposals will be evaluated at the 55
th Session of ISI in Sydney and the organisers will be informed shortly afterwards.The conference Committee is as follows.
Graciela Boente is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been Chair of the Instituto de Cálculo, a research centre focusing on Statistics and Applied Mathematics, since 1998. Her research has focused on multivariate statistics, robust statistics, nonparametric inference, and functional data analysis. She organised several international meetings and has given editorial service.
Lutz Duembgen is Professor of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His current research focuses on non-parametric curve estimation, classification and discriminant analysis, multivariate regression with errors-in-variables, and statistical computing. He has wide editorial service and is experienced in conference planning.
Maria Ivette Gomes is Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operation Research at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include: statistics of extremes, computational statistics, exploratory data analysis, resampling methodologies, and statistical quality control. She is experienced with editorial work and conference organisations. She is also the Vice-chair of the ISI Program coordinating Committee for the 56th Session in 2007.
Chii-Ruey Hwang is a Research Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research focuses on developing theories for method of sieves, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, simulating annealing, and convergence rate for Markov processes. He has provided key services to the Bernoulli Society including planning of several conferences, and is currently on the Council of the Society.
Rahul Mukerjee is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India. His research interests include: asymptotic theory, experimental design, and survey sampling. He has extensive professional and editorial services, and is currently associate editor for several international journals. He is a long-term member of ISI and a new member of the Bernoulli Society. We warmly welcome him aboard.
Jane-Ling Wang is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis, and Co-Editor of Statistica Sinica. Her current research interests include: longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, biodemography, smoothing methods, and dimension reduction methods. She has participated in various committees for several statistical societies, and has participated in the organisation of several international meetings.
Bin Yu is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her current research interests include: statistical inference, machine learning, information theory, statistical modeling and data analysis in remote sensing, data networks, neuroscience, finance, and bioinformatics. She has provided extensive service to the statistical communities and engineering societies including membership on several boards, and has played key role in numerous statistical meetings and IEEE meetings.
— Jane-Ling Wang
The August 2002 floods in Prague dramatically affected the mathematical and computer science’s part of the library of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. The water that reached a height of 2.9 metres from the pavement level, damaged 13,000 books, 468 titles of journals, 6,800 textbooks and 2,000 diploma theses.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in addition to other steps to save and recover damaged and lost books and journals decided to organize a public appeal that was also addressed to members of Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the International Statistical Institute (see Bernoulli News 9(2) (2002) and ISI Newsletter 26(3) (2002)).
The participants of the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians that took place in Prague only a few days after the flood collected more than €4,000 and started great support the Faculty received from foreign and home organisations, institutions, societies, universities and individual donors. Financial donations from all the donors reached almost 104,000 Euro. The principal financial support was provided by The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and Charles University. In addition, the Faculty received 5,907 books and 156 journal titles from 165 donors. The donors that were identified were being sent letters of thanks. Two press conferences were held on the occasion of the presentation of a large collection of books and journals from French and German mathematicians.
In September 2004 the construction of the new library was finished, and after the previous unfortunate experience, it was decided to situate it on the first floor. The library has just been opened for the beginning of academic year 2004-5.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics would like to thank all the people and institutions that contributed to the renewal of the library with their understanding and help.
— Ivan Netuka (Dean) and
Marie Husková (Chair, ERC)
There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics. But there is an Abel Prize, which is an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics, and also applications of mathematics in the sciences. The intention is to award prizes over the course of time in a broad range of fields within the mathematical sciences.
As the Abel Prize is meant for mathematics in the wide sense, including statistics, statisticians are encouraged to nominate worthy candidates for the prize. There are several superb scientists in statistics, as there are in other fields of the mathematical sciences. An Abel Prize to a statistician would be a big plus to the field, and would strengthen the ties between statistics and the rest of mathematics – and even strengthen mathematics as a whole.
The prize will be awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which has appointed an Abel Committee consisting of five mathematicians to review the nominated candidates and submit a recommendation for a worthy Abel laureate. The committee is currently chaired by Erling Størmer, and has the following members Ingrid Daubechies, Lázsló Lovász, Gilbert Strang and Don Zagier.
Jean-Pierre Serre was the first Abel Prize laureate, and in 2004 the prize was shared between Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M Singer.
More information about the Abel Prize and about Niels Henrik Abel is found at www.abelprisen.no/en/ .
— Tore Schweder
The ISI Permanent Office is pleased to announce that the Bernoulli journal is now available on-line via Project Euclid (PE), a partnership of independent journals of mathematics and statistics that is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. It is a non-profit electronic journal publishing initiative of Cornell University Library. The European Mathematical Society, the American Mathematical Society, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Statistical Association have all expressed their support for the PE initiative.
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In agreement with the Bernoulli Society, the ISI has made the Bernoulli journal (volume 9.5) available for subscribers via the PE website.
All registered Bernoulli Society (non-ISI) members will receive the electronic version of Bernoulli via the PE website at no additional cost (Bernoulli non-ISI members presently receive the hard copy of the Bernoulli journal, also at no additional cost). Bernoulli Society members, who are also ISI members, will have the option of receiving both the hard copy and the web version for one price (€32). (Non-members will pay €261 for one mode, and €350 for both modes.)
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