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News from the Bernoulli Publications Committee


News from the Bernoulli Publications Committee and Related Publications

News from the Publications Committee

The Online Encyclopedia StatProb

Bernoulli E-Briefs

Lévy Matters

A Letter from Elsevier

News from the Publications Committee

The main activity of the committee is to discuss strategic questions as well as solving practical matters concerning the various journals and other publications in which the Bernoulli Society is involved. The committee is happy that Sara van de Geer (Zürich) has agreed to become the Bernoulli Society Executive Co-Editor of the electronic open access journal "Statistics Surveys", which the Bernoulli Society co-sponsors jointly with IMS, ASA and SSC. She replaces Elja Arjas (Helsinki). I take this opportunity to thank Elja for his hard work as co-editor for the journal in the difficult, but successful period of getting the journal up and running. Statistics Surveys www.i-journals.org/ss/ publishes survey articles in theoretical, computational and applied statistics.

Another important activity that the committee is enthusiastic about is the open-access electronic Encyclopedia of Probability and Statistics, which has now been launched. Take a look at it at http://statprob.com/. This is a joint project with Springer and a number of other societies including the IMS, the ISI, the ASA and the RSS. Thomas Liggett has kindly agreed to be the Bernoulli Society representative on the editorial board.

The committee has also in various ways supported the series Selected Works in Probability and Statistics published by Springer (see http://www.springer.com/series/8556).

Each volume, which contains original papers, original commentary by experts on the subject’s papers and relevant biographies and bibliographies, will be available in a printed version as well as in a free online version. The Bernoulli Society has ensured that papers published in journals owned or sponsored by the society can be reprinted free of charge in the series. This includes Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, for which the Bernoulli Society was happy to ensure a very generous agreement with Elsevier. The first volumes of Selected Works by Richard Dudley and by Chris Heyde have recently appeared.

The members of the Publications Committee are Michael Sørensen (Chair), Claudia Klüppelberg, Peter McCullagh and Maria Eulalia Vares. The chairman is also a member of the publications committee of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) to improve the relations with our umbrella organization. Until recently, Olle Häggström was a member of the committee. It is planned to replace him by a couple of new members. I would like to thank Olle for his many contributions to the work of the committee.

Michael Sørensen, Copenhagen

The Online Encyclopedia StatProb

StatProb: The Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies is a free encyclopedia that combines the advantages of traditional wikis (rapid and up-to-date publication, user-generated development, hyperlinking and a saved history) with traditional publishing (quality assurance, review, credit to authors and a structured information display). All contributions have been approved by an editorial board determined by these sponsoring societies:
American Society for Quality Statistics Division, American Statistical Association, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometric Society, International Chinese Statistical Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, International Statistical Institute, Royal Statistical Society, Statistical Society of Canada/Société statistique du Canada.

All encyclopedia entries are written in LaTeX. All of the entries are automatically cross-referenced and the entire corpus is kept updated in real-time.

StatProb articles must be approved by the appropriate member of the Editorial Board. Each published article has an owner, which is its author if that person is available. Owners must approve changes to published articles.

The Editorial Board will approve articles that are authoritative, concise, focused and reasonably complete discussions of specific topics in statistics and probability. The focus is on the synthesis of existing knowledge and we encourage short review articles that summarize information from a wide variety of sources. StatProb is not a journal and it does not publish original research results.

For details on members of the editorial and advisory boards and a description of what types of articles are wanted, please go to the “About” page at http://statprob.com.

John Kimmel, Springer

Bernoulli E-Briefs

Bernoulli E-Briefs is an electronic bulletin of the Bernoulli Society intended as a complementary device to share latest news and relevant information in tight collaboration with Bernoulli News. It arrives directly to the Bernoulli Society 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 Bernoulli News. Its first three numbers have witnessed an increasing use of this device by the members of our community, mainly for the promotion of upcoming events, which we find very encouraging. Once again, we invite our colleagues to profit this opportunity by sending information they would like to have posted promptly in a brief manner.

Carenne Ludena and Ramses H. Mena
Editors Bernoulli E-Briefs

Lévy Matters

New Subseries of the Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics under the Auspices of the Bernoulli Society

The new subseries “Levy Matters” of the Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, edited by O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), Jean Bertoin and Jean Jacod (Paris) and Claudia Klüppelberg (Munich) is published under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society.

Its goal is the dissemination of important developments in the theory and applications of Lévy processes. Each volume will describe state-of-the-art results of this rapidly evolving subject with special emphasis on the non-Brownian world. The intended audiences are Ph.D. and postdoctoral students, or researchers, who want to learn about recent advances in the theory of Lévy processes, and to get an overview of new applications in different fields.

The present volume, which just appeared as volume 2001 of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series, is the first in the series and future volumes will appear over time in tune with the developments in the field. The expository articles in this first volume have been chosen to reflect the broadness of the area of Lévy processes. We hope that the readers of this and subsequent volumes enjoy learning about the high potential of Lévy processes in theory and applications.

Researchers with ideas for contributions to further volumes in the Lévy Matters series are invited to contact any of the Editors with proposals or suggestions.

For details, please visit the website http://www.springer.com/series/8789.

Claudia Klüppelberg, Munich

A Letter from Elsevier

Dear members of the Bernoulli Society,

Please allow me to introduce myself as the new publisher at Elsevier responsible for Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA). We at Elsevier are privileged to work with Professor Thomas Mikosch, the current editor, who following the legacy of his predecessors, continues to maintain the high standards that the journal has upheld since its inception.

Stochastic Processes and their Applications is currently available to more than 5,860 institutes worldwide and, in particular, the members of the Bernoulli Society through the reduced personal subscription option, have also free online access back to Volume 1, Issue 1 in 1973.

Illustrative examples of the journal's ongoing progress are the expansion of the Editorial Board, the growing number of submissions and published volumes over the past several years, the increasing Impact Factor and not least the rapid availability of articles on-line, only one week after acceptance.

Recent initiatives by Elsevier to support the journal include:

• Free electronic access to the May 2010 tribute to Kiyosi Itô issue of SPA and the distribution of free paper copies to participants of related conferences, including the 14th Brazilian School of Probability, the Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School, the 6th International Conference on Lévy Processes and the 34th Stochastic Processes and their Applications Conference;

• The inauguration of the SPA/Elsevier travel grants and best poster awards presented at the 6th International Conference on Lévy Processes and 28th European Meeting of Statisticians;

• And, as in previous years, the sponsorship of the special invited SPA Lévy Lecture, presented by Claudio Landim at the annual conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications.
(For more information on the above initiatives, please visit the website of the journal at www.elsevier.com/locate/spa)

I would also like to say how pleased and proud we are to publish the significant work that comes to the journal through the partnership with the Bernoulli Society and I look forward to our future collaboration.

Best regards,

Elena Griniari, Elsevier, Amsterdam