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Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 11
Bernoulli Society Bulletin 'E-Briefs' issue 11 CONTENTS 1.- GENERAL NEWS 2 - EVENTS 3 - PRIZES 4 - RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES OF BernSoc OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS For information to be considered in the next issue please contact Dario Spanò (D.Spano@warwick.ac.uk) by April 15, 2012. 2.- GENERAL NEWS * C(PS)^2 re-assembled. The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (C(PS)^2) has been reassembled since August 2011, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. On the new website http://www.aueb.gr/bs-cpsps/ information can be found on C(PS)^2’s mission, membership and activities. Ideas for the organization of workshops or sessions/conferences under the auspices of C(PS) ^2 in pertinent areas of interest are welcome. 3.- EVENTS 3.1- Events (co)-sponsored by BernSoc.
*8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, 2012. <http://www.worldcong2012.org/>
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. There are now a variety of sources of financial support for participation to the World congress, including: Details and deadlines at: http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=financial_support -Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2012. Submit your abstract at http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=abstract * The International Summer School in Math Physics III: Probabilistic Aspects of Contemporary Physics 20.06.2012 – 06.07.2012 Feza Gürsey Institute Kandilli, Istanbul – Turkey. This summer school is a satellite meeting of the Istanbul world conference with sponsorship of the Bernoulli Society. http://www.fezagurseysummerschool.com * Pre-World Congress Meeting of Young Researchers in Probability and Statistics 2012 (PWCYPS 2012). July 6 - 8, 2012, Koç University, Sarıyer, Istanbul, TURKEY. If you are a student (MS or PhD), post-doc or young researcher in statistics or probability, join 100 other young participants to the pre-World-Congress weekend.
* “Random Networks & Environments”, Istanbul. July 16--20, 2012. This is an exciting satellite workshop right after the IMS-Bernoulli World Congress. For the current list of speakers and participants and for updated information, please visit http://www.math.boun.edu.tr/instructors/yilmaz/RNE.html * 1st Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics. Chalkidiki, Greece, June 15-19, 2012 and is co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society. Researchers that are interested in ISNPS and/or would like to participate in its First Conference by giving a contributed talk or poster are encouraged to contact ISNPS at the email: isnps@stat.tamu.edu . For updated information visit http://www.isnpstat.org . * “Long-Range Dependence, Self-Similarity and Heavy Tails”, International Conference in Honor of Professor Murad S. Taqqu. April 19-21, 2012, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
* 7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012. http://www.bfs2012.com/ * II Asia and Pacific Rim Meetings (APRM).Tsukuba,Japan. July 2-4, 2012. - BernSoc with IMS will co-sponsor two special sessions of 105 mins each, with the title: “Research at the Interface of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, I and II”, chaired by S.R.S. Varadhan and Peter Hall. - Early registration deadline: April 15, 2012 - Visit http://ims-aprm2012.org/index.html for more information * EMS2013. The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS2013). Budapest, Hungary, 20-25. July 2013. - Preliminary information is available at http://www.math.elte.hu/probability/markus/EMS2013_Current1.html * SPA 2013. The 2013 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Boulder, University of Colorado,USA, July 29 - August 2. - List of plenary speakers available at http://math.colorado.edu/spa2013/ * SPA 2014. The 2014 congress in Stochastic Processes and their Applications will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), during the week July 28 - August 1, 2014. 3.2- Other events * International Summer School on “Advanced Stochastic Methods to Model Risk”, September 9 - 22, 2012, Ulm University, Germany. - 20 scholarships available, funded by the DAAD (www.daad.de), covering the conference fee, accommodation and travel costs for non-German participants. - Updated information at: http://www.uni-ulm.de/mawi/summer-academy-2012/ - Deadline for applications May31, 2012. * 16-th Brazilian School of Probability or XVI EBP, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil August 06 to August 11, 2012. Activities will include mini-courses, plenary talks by invited speakers, short communications and posters and more. - Detailed information on the site: www.de.ufpe.br/~xviebp/ - Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 May 2012 * 59th ISI WSC 2013 in Hong Kong http://www.isi2013.hk/ - Call for Short Course Proposals from the ISI Short Course Committee - IASS Short Courses 201 - Call for Special Topic Sessions Proposals 3. PRIZES * Bernoulli Society Prize for an outstanding survey article in Probability or Mathematical Statistics. A new committee has been assembled for Statistics articles. Nominations of papers with a focus in Statistics may be submitted to committee chair Peter Hall at halpstat@ms.unimelb.edu.au up to January 1st, 2014. For guidelines see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes. 5.- RECENTLY RELEASED ISSUES BY THE BERNOULI SOCIETY AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS * Recent issues:
- BERNOULLI 18(1) http://www.bernoulli-society.org/ - SPA 122 (2) and 122 (3) (in progress) 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 |