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On Wednesday October 20, 2010 (20-10-2010), the World Statistics Day (WSD) is celebrated to raise awareness of the many achievements of statistics worldwide, see: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/Default.aspx
The ISI President Jef Teugels has called upon all national and regional statistical societies to celebrate WSD and to develop plans for communicating this to the wider public.
On September 8, the Bernoulli Society held a special session “World Statistics Day: The future of societies of mathematical statistics & probability” at the 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, September 6-10 in Osaka, Japan. The session invited two speakers: the ISI President-Elect Jae C. Lee and the BS President-Elect Edward Waymire.
Jae C. Lee gave a talk entitled “The future of international statistical society: ISI's perspective”. He started with the history of ISI, and talked on the mission of ISI with the ISI family including the BS. Is ISI truly an international society? To this question, interesting views from many aspects were presented based on various statistics.
Edward Waymire explained the initiatives to celebrate 2013 as the 125th anniversary for ISI 1; it is also the 300th year since the publication of Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi. Also, new awards and the new electronic encyclopedia StatProb were announced. In this issue of Bernoulli News, the reader may find his speech mentioning the new information age and the impact on the future of professional societies.
I hope the session was a nice opportunity to remind the BS members what are planned and will occur in the next step of those societies and how the productive relation between them is expanding.
Nakahiro Yoshida, Scientific Secretary
1 ISI was founded in 1885, but the international meetings organised by the ISI started in 1887. Therefore this anniversary is in fact the celebration of 125 years of ISI Sessions.
As a satellite meeting to the 2011 ISI World Congress, and the first of its kind, the 2011 ISI Young Statisticians Meeting (YSI 2011) seeks to promote the active participation of early career statisticians in the epicentre of the ISI World Congress. The meeting will take place from August 19-21, 2011, preceding the 2011 ISI World Congress. Further information: www.isi2011.ie/content/sat-meetings/ysi.html.
John Hasle
Chair Local Programme Committee of ISI 2011
A selection of historical papers that appeared in the statistical journal Metron is now freely downloadable from Metron's archive. Papers are in pdf format, and are downloadable at the following address: www.metronjournal.it/storia/home_en.htm.
At the present time, nine articles are downloadable. Many others will be available in the next months.
Pier Luigi Conti, Metron, Editor-in-Chief
The Council of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) held in Sofia (Bulgaria) on July 10-11, has elected Marta Sanz-Solé as new President of the Society for the years 2011 – 2014.
Marta Sanz-Solé is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona since 1986. Her research interests focus on Stochastic Analysis. Her contributions include pioneering work on large deviations, anticipating calculus, stochastic partial differential equations and Malliavin calculus and applications. In 1998, she was the recipient of the Narcís Monturiol Medal for Scientific and Technological Excellence, awarded by the autonomous government of Catalonia. She was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics in 1993 –1996 and Vice-president of the Sciences Division of the University of Barcelona in 2000 – 2003. She is currently a member of the Team of Directors of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Bellaterra, Spain).
Her involvement in the EMS goes back to 1997, when she joined the Executive Committee and was an elected member for eight consecutive years. She was the Secretary of Organisation of the Third European Congress of Mathematics, held in Barcelona in 2000, and has also been the Chair of the Local Programme Committee of ICM 2006.
Founded in 1990 by and for the mathematical community, the EMS has as main purpose to further the development of all aspects of mathematics in the countries of Europe. In particular, the Society aims to promote research in mathematics and its applications, to assist and advise on problems of mathematical education, to foster a broad relation of mathematics with society, and to cooperate with learned societies with similar aims. The EMS acts as an effective intermediary between mathematicians and academic and research institutions, and with those in Charge of politics and funds at the European Commission.