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Richard Davis Forthcoming Editor of Bernoulli
Special Volume of Stochastic Processes and their Applications in Spring 2010
The Bernoulli Society has appointed Richard A. Davis as the next editor of the journal, Bernoulli. Richard will begin his job as editor on January 1, 2010. The Publications Committee takes this opportunity to thank the present editor, Holger Rootzén, for all the work he has done for the society as editor of Bernoulli since January 2007, and to wish Richard the best of luck in his new, and undoubtedly very interesting job as Bernoulli editor.
Michael Sørensen, Copenhagen
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In November 2008, soon after the sad news about Professor Kiyosi Itô's passing
away, the Editorial Board of the journal SPA decided to publish a special issue
as a tribute in his honor. Since then, we started thinking about this volume
whose main aim would be to present Itô’s masterpieces: Stochastic Calculus and Excursion Theory, as well as some of their applications. We soon were convinced that a combination of papers written, on one hand by former students of Professor Itô: Professors Masatoshi Fukushima, Nobuyuki Ikeda, Hiroshi Kunita and Shinzo Watanabe, and on the other hand, by a quartet of French probabilists: Professors Jean Bertoin, Philippe Biane, Jean-François Le Gall and Wendelin Werner, would be ideal for this purpose. |
Admittedly, even with this excellent group of probabilists, the whole
spectrum of K. Itô’s achievements (see, e.g., his Selected Papers Volume,
Springer (1987)) is far from being covered. We are confident that other
probability journals will also provide tributes in honor of Kiyosi Itô, and
discuss other aspects than those featured in this volume.
The Special SPA Volume is expected to appear in the first semester of 2010,
thanks to the diligence of the eight authors.
M. Yor (guest editor)
M. E. Vares (guest co-editor)
T. Mikosch (SPA editor)
• Invited Sessions replaces Invited Paper Meetings
• Contributed Sessions replaces Contributed Paper Meetings
• Special Topic Sessions replaces Special Topic Contributed Paper Meetings
The Dublin Congress will take place from August 21-26, 2011, and will include a
special Theme Day during which all papers will address, from various statistical
perspectives, “Water, quality and quantity”. Please consult the Congress website
for more news: www.isi2011.ie.
With the idea of modernizing as an organization, the ISI
Newsletter is now only
available online for ISI and Section members. For those who still prefer a print
version, it is available by request from the ISI Permanent Office. The ISI
Newsletter will also be undergoing a makeover of sorts next year. The first
issue of 2010 is the 100th
issue of the ISI
Newsletter. If
you have any special ideas for this commemorative issue, please e-mail Shabani
Mehta at @cbs.nl.
The redesign of the ISI website is the top priority and will be focused on over
the next several months. The Publications Committee will have an advisory panel
to the ISI Permanent Office. This Committee has itself the task to focus on the
various publications of the ISI and its sections to ensure the relationships
with the publishers are of optimum quality for the ISI and sections.
When the ISI Executive Committee and ISI Council gathered in Durban for
meetings, it also became apparent that a few other matters will need attention
over the next couple of years. The ISI Council Members will from now on be given
more specific roles to contribute to the ISI Executive Committee’s goals and
decision-making. Another main area is the ISI’s relationships with national
statistical societies and sister societies will be nurtured so that the
statistical world can benefit from each other. The forthcoming issue of the ISI
Newsletter will give you more details on these developments.
Finally, taking into consideration the economic situation, we are all dealing
with, the 2010 ISI membership fee will remain the same as in 2009.
Ms. Ada van Krimpen welcomes ideas and suggestions from Bernoulli Society
members. She can be reached by e-mail at @cbs.nl.
ISI Permanent Office, @cbs.nl
http://isi.cbs.nl
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
If you hear of news about Bernoulli Society members and colleagues which ought to be shared widely then please pass on the information to the Editors.