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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 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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 |