Maria-Eulalia Vares (Chair, President Elect, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),
Nancy Reid (Chair, President Elect, U. of Toronto, Canada),
Mark Podolski (Publication Comm., U. of Luxembourg),
Corina Constantinescu (Publicity Comm. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Panki Kim (CCSP, SNU, South Korea),
Matthias Faes (C(PS)2, TU Dortmund, Germany),
Gesine Reinert (SNSC, U. of Oxford, UK),
Małgorzata Bogdan (European RC, University of Wroclaw, Poland),
Ajay Jasra (East Asian & Paci RC, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China),
Inés Armendáriz (Latin America RC, UBA, Argentina),
Jeff Yao (Scientific Secretary, CUHK Shenzen, China, without voting rights).
The task of the Committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2027–2029) and six Ordinary Council Members (2027–2031). All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by December 15, 2025.
Willem van Zwet Medal for special service to the Bernoulli Society
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This biennial Bernoulli Society Medal aims to recognise special service to the Bernoulli Society. The Medal is in honour of Willem van Zwet, who served Bernoulli Society and its aims in many special ways. Nominees should have records of sustained and distinguished service to the Society.
Description
Nomination can be made of any member of Bernoulli Society, who has not previously been elected President.
Nominations should be communicated by email to the chair of the Willem van Zwet Medal Committee by the declared deadline (see below), and should be signed by two members of the Bernoulli Society. They must include the name, affiliation, and brief curriculum vitae of the nominee, and a statement of no more than 1000 words summarising the case for nomination.
At most one award is made every two years. The medal will be awarded at a ceremony during the next World Congress. The recommendation will be based on sustained excellent service to further the aims of the Bernoulli Society. Excellence in research will not be taken into account, as this is recognised by other Bernoulli Society awards.
Previous winners
Professor Maria Eulalia Vares in 2021
Professor Thomas Mikosch in 2023
Professor Herold Dehling in 2025
The Willem van Zwet Medal Committee
The committee has three members, at least one being a past president who will act as chair, each member serving a term of up to five years. New committee members and chair are proposed by the current and incoming Bernoulli Society Presidents after consultation with the Executive Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
Present members of the committee:
(from Jan 2023) Victor Perez Abreu (chair), CIMAT, Mexico;
(from Jan 2021) Florencia Leonardi, University of São Paulo, Brazil;
(from Jan 2021) Byeong U. Park, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea.
Past members of the committee:
(Jan 2021-Dec 2022) Wilfrid S. Kendall (chair), University of Warwick, UK
About Willem van Zwet
This medal is inspired by the dedicated service of Willem van Zwet, who passed away on July 2, 2020. Willem was a major figure for Bernoulli Society and for our community as a whole. In particular, in the decade commencing 1970, he was among the founding fathers of the Bernoulli Society. He served as President of Bernoulli Society (1987-1989) and as Editor in Chief of the Bernoulli Journal (2000-2003). He was the driving force behind the creation of Eurandom, the European Institute for Stochastics in Eindhoven, serving as Eurandom’s founding director (1997-2000). The medal also honours his significant and unceasing support of statisticians behind the iron curtain, which had a major impact there and earned him an honorary doctorate from Charles University. Willem van Zwet's life is an inspiration for future generations of Bernoulli members.
Nominations
The nomination process is currently closed.
Publicity Committee
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Publicity Committee
The committee manages all issues related to publicity and the dissemination of information and news to members of the Bernoulli Society and beyond. It coordinates the publication of the Bernoulli E-Briefs electronic newsletter, and of the Society's print newsletter, Bernoulli News. It also manages the Society's webpage and social media presence. The chairman is ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Committee Members
Carlos Amendola, E-Briefs Editor (Germany, until July 2021)
Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Web Editor (USA, until June 2021)
Corina Constantinescu, Twitter Editor (UK, until June 2022)
Manuele Leonelli, Bernoulli News Editor (UK, until June 2023)
Victor Panaretos, Chair (Switzerland, until Feb 2020)
Publicity Committee
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The committee manages all issues related to publicity and the dissemination of information and news to members of the Bernoulli Society and beyond. It coordinates the publication of the Bernoulli E-Briefs electronic newsletter, and of the Society's print newsletter, Bernoulli News. It also manages the Society's webpage and social media presence. The chairman is ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Committee Members
Alessia Caponera, e-Briefs Editor (Italy, until June 2025)
Bojana Milošević, Bernoulli News Editor (Serbia, until June 2027)
Corina Constantinescu, Chair (United Kingdom, until December 2025)
Past Prize Recipients
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2015: Judith Rousseau (CREST–ENSAE, Université Paris Dauphine), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2015, Rio de Janeiro.
2017: Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2017, Marrakesh.
2019: Mathias Drton (University of Washington, Technische Universität München), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019, Kuala Lumpur.
2021: Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zürich), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2021, The Hague (virtual).
2023: Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England, Stanford University), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2023, Ottawa.
2025: Po-Ling Loh - DPMMS - University of Cambridge
