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Reform teaching Public Health in Vietnam (TBMU) and Laos (NIOPH)
Prakasa Rao wins Sukhatme Award for Senior Statistician
European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society
Call for News of Members and Colleagues
The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, a German private foundation, has granted the sum of € 93,340 for a project designed and guided by our member Klaus Krickeberg to reform the teaching of Public Health in the Medical University of Thaí Bình, Vietnam (TBMU) and the National Institute of Public Health in Vientiane, Laos (NIOPH). This is going to run over the next 5 years within the framework of a partnership of TBMU and NIOPH with the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi (NIHE) and the School of Public Health of the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Due to an initiative of NIHE, the project responds to the realization that institutions like TBMU and NIOPH are disadvantaged compared with those in a metropolis such as Hanoi. Its main principle is to let the students work directly with small health stations and the population. There is much probability and statistics in Public Health!
Prof.
B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professor at the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, has been selected for the
National Award in Statistics for Senior Statistician in memory of Prof. P.V.
Sukhatme for 2007-08.
The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India, has instituted the National award for outstanding and meritorious research work in statistics in memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme to encourage independent and high quality research work in the field of applied/official statistics particularly on issues and problems relating to the statistical system in the country. The P.V. Sukhatme award is given to the Senior Indian Statisticians for their lifetime contribution to the development of statistical system in the field of applied/official statistics.
The main activities connected with or promoted by the European Regional Committee (ERC) of the Bernoulli Society since Summer 2006 are as follows.
• The 15th European Meeting of Young Statisticians has taken place in Castro Urdiales, Spain, from the 10th to the 14th of September 2007, attended by 45 participants from 23 European countries. Detailed information is available from http://kolmogorov.unex.es/~idelpuerto/15thEYSM
• The 27th European Meeting of Statisticians is going to be held in Toulouse, France, from the 20th to the 24th of July 2009. Its organization is at an advanced stage. More information is available from the conference web page at http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/EMS2009/
• The 16th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Romania. Participation to EYSM is via invitation, as indicated in the ERC web page (http://bs-erc.stat.unipd.it/). The chief organizer, Dr Roxana Chiumana, may be contacted at roxana_ciumara@yahoo.com.
• The 28th European Meeting of Statisticians is going to be held at the University of Piraeus, in Greece, from the 17th to the 22nd of August 2010. The organization is still at an early stage, but the initial steps are already completed, including approval from the host university, and appointment of the Scientific Programme Committee, chaired by Enno Mammen.
New members of the ERC have been elected for the period 2008-2012, to replace the members elected in 2004. The new members are: Aad van der Vaart (The Netherlands), Carlos Braumann (Portugal), Peter Bühlmann (Switzerland), Gerda Claeskens (Belgium), László Márkus (Hungary), Simos Meintanis (Greece), Axel Munk (Germany), and Rasmus Waagepetersen (Denmark). The new Chair is Aad van der Vaart.
Adelchi Azzalini
ERC, Past Chair
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