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Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 7
Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 7 CONTENTS 1.- GENERAL NEWS 2.- EVENTS 3.- SAD NEWS 4.- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR DOEBLIN AND OUTSTANDING SURVEY ARTICLE IN PROBABILITY PRIZES 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS For information to be considered in the next issue please contact Carenne Ludena (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Ramses H. Mena (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) before June 10 2011. -------------------------------------------------------------- 1.- GENERAL NEWS * The Council of the Bernoulli Society approved the candidates for President-Elect 2011-2013 and ordinary Council members for 2011-2015 presented by the Nominating Committee. The Council provided no additional candidates. Since there is only one candidate for an office, according to the Statutes, the candidates shall be declared elected in the General Assembly during the Dublin ISI World Statistics Congress in August 2011. -President-Elect: Wilfrid Kendall, Warwick University http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/kendall/ -New Council members from 2011: Neville Weber http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/neville/ Arturo Kohatsu-Higa http://elis.sigmath.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kohatsu/ Mikhail Lifshits http://sites.google.com/site/mlprobability/ Alejandro Ramirez http://www.mat.puc.cl/~aramirez/ Alice Guionnet http://www.umpa.ens-lyon.fr/~aguionne/ Martin Barlow http://www.math.ubc.ca/~barlow/ * The next Ordinary Meeting of the Bernoulli Society General Assembly (GA) will take place at the ISI Dublin WSC on Thursday 25 of August, 2011, from 13.00 to 15.00 hrs. Those members participating in this Congress please write it down in your agenda. All members are welcome to make suggestions for the Open Floor Discussion part of this GA. Please contact any member of the Bernoulli Society Executive Committee. * New international web-based mentor programme for Ph.D students in statistics and probability at universities in developing countries is launched, sponsored by the International Statistical Institute and the Bernoulli Society. Ph.D students enrol the programme by internet and are put in contact with volunteer senior statisticians. The programme is based in Oslo, see http://statmentoring.nr.no to find out more on what the programme does. If you wish to join as mentor, please enrol here: http://statmentoring.nr.no/statmentoring/index.php/Mentor_form. Students can join here: http://statmentoring.nr.no/statmentoring/index.php/Student_forms. 2.- EVENTS * 7th conference on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications Ascona, Switzerland, May 23-27 2011. More information at http://mathaa.epfl.ch/prob/ascona/2011/index.html * African Congress of Probability and Statistics (ACPS). Dakar and Senegal, June 6 - 9, 2011. More information at http://univi.net/spas/ang/spada2.php * 35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (35SPA) Oaxaca, Mexico, June 19-24, 2011. - New information on accommodation and social activities. - Updated information about Plenary Speakers and Invited Special Sessions is now available. This and some other info at http://abalontico.matem.unam.mx/SPA/ * 8th Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Veracruz, Mexico. June 26-30, 2011. - Early bird registration deadline: May 15, 2011. - Updated information about the Scientific Program is now available This and some other info at http://www.bnpworkshop.org/ * 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Dublin, August 21-26, 2011. Organized or sponsored activities by the BernSoc include: - 12 invited Paper Sessions and three Special Contributed Sessions - Satellite meeting on Dynamic Statistical Models, Copenhagen Denmark, August 17-19. - Early bird registration deadline: June 1, 2011. More information at http://statistics.ku.dk/isi-satellite/ - ISI Young Statisticians Meeting, Dublin, August 19-21. - List of invited speakers in now available. - Early bird registration deadline: July 1, 2011. See http://www.scss.tcd.ie/conferences/YSI2011/
More information on these activities can be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/news * 17th European Young Statisticians Meeting. Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011. - Early bird registration deadline: May 8, 2011. - Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2011. More information at http://www.fct.unl.pt/17eysm * 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. http://www.bfs2012.com/ * 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. - List of main speakers already available More information at http://www.worldcong2012.org/ 3.- SAD NEWS * Patrick Billingsley, Professor of the University of Chicago died April 22, 2011. An obituary will be posted at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/news 4.- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR DOEBLIN AND OUTSTANDING SURVEY ARTICLE IN PROBABILITY PRIZES * WOLFGANG DOEBLIN PRIZE 2012
The Bernoulli Society welcomes nominations for the first Wolfgang Doeblin Prize to be awarded in the 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Istanbul, 2012. The Prize is to honour the scientific work of Wolfgang Doeblin. It will be awarded for outstanding work in the field of probability, to a single individual who is at the beginning of his or her mathematical career. The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize is generously supported by Springer. The awardee will be invited to submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and will also be invited to present a Doeblin Prize Lecture in a later Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Each nomination should offer a brief case in support and should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 30th November 2011. * BERNOULLI PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SURVEY ARTICLE IN PROBABILITY The Bernoulli Society has initiated a new prize to recognize an outstanding survey article in probability. The award is biennial, the first of which to be presented at the Bernoulli World Congress in the Summer of 2012. (Watch for later news about a companion biennial award in 2014 for mathematical statistics.) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: According to the award specifications, nominations exclude self-nominations, and can otherwise be submitted to the committee chair David Aldous via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nominations should include full name and email address of both the nominee and nominator, as well as a pdf file of the published article. Nominations should be submitted by NOVEMBER 30, 2011. 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues: - Bernoulli 17(2) http://projecteuclid.org/bj - SPA 121 (5) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/spa * Co-sponsored open access publications: Have a look to the latest articles in ECP, EJP, EJS, Probab. Surveys and Statist Surveys at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications * Latest issue of Bernoulli News http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html |