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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 37 September 2019

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Contents:

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th.

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General News

***News from the General Assembly at ISI-WSC

At the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, the Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointments:

Claudia Klüppelberg (TU Munich) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society (with Adam Jakubowski (University of Torun) as President-Elect) and Song Xi Chen (Peking University) replaced Byeong U. Park as Scientific Secretary. 

We thank previous President Susan Murphy and previous Scientific Secretary Byeong U. Park for their dedicated service and steering of the society in the past years.

Approved were also

  • New C(PS)^2 Chair: Michael Beer (University of Hannover)
  • New ERC Chair: Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich)
  • New LARC Chair: Florencia Leonardi (University of São Paulo)

Moreover, a new post "Publicity Secretary" on the Executive Committee and a new standing "Publicity Committee" was established with Victor Panaretos as chair. This gives the ad-hoc officer Publicity Chair (Victor Panaretos, since February 2018) its proper status.

We thank Victor for his support in developing this important new committee.

***Newly elected SLAPEM Committee 2019-2021

Four new members of the Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society have been elected: Juan Carlos Abril (Argentina), Maria Eulalia Vares (Brazil), Richard Serrano-Agila (Ecuador) and Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (México). The elected new Chair of the Committee is Florencia Leonardi (Brazil).

***Mathias Drton wins the Ethel Newbold Prize 2019

During the ISI World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, the Ethel Newbold Prize winner (see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=207 for background on the prize), selected by the Prize Committee chaired by Eva b. Vedel Jensen, was announced to be Prof. Mathias Drton (U Washington, TU Munich). Congratulations!

***Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics 2022

Nominations for the prize are open now. The prize will be presented at the 2023 ISI World Statistics Congress. Nominations should include full name and email address of both the nominee(s) and nominator, as well as a pdf file of the published survey article in statistics. The nomination material should be emailed to Professor Qiwei Yao at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The nomination deadline is February 28th, 2021.  

***Corina Constantinescu as Bernoulli Society Twitter Manager

We are pleased to inform that Corina Constantinescu (University of Liverpool) is taking over as main responsible for the Bernoulli Society Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We encourage all BS members to follow the Bernoulli Society on Twitter!

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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society

***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) 

December 2 - 6, 2019

Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México

http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home

The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. 

***Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry (Kendall’s 65th Birthday)

December 9 - 10, 2019

University of Warwick, UK

https://tinyurl.com/y4tzewh7

This two-day meeting will coincide with a celebration of Professor Wilfrid Kendall’s 65th birthday. It will bring together a group of academics working in areas of probability, statistics and theoretical computer science that make use of coupling arguments. In particular, the workshop will be of interest to those working on adaptive MCMC samplers, links between probability and geometry, statistical shape analysis, and perfect simulation algorithms.

***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC)

August 17 - 21, 2020

Seoul, South Korea

http://www.wc2020.org/

The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.

Other Events

***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)

September 22 - 26, 2019

Hannover, Germany

https://esrel2019.org

The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.

***2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics (SWiM) Program

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute invites applications for its 2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics program. The purpose of this program is to provide space and funds to groups of women mathematicians to work on a research project at MSRI. Seehttps://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/summer-research-for-women-in-mathematics

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Job Offers

Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019.

See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/professorship-in-statistics/

 

Professorship of Mathematics at University of Fribourg/Switzerland. Qualified applicants must have an outstanding track record in a field of mathematics with strong potential for applications, such as (but not limited to): PDE, dynamical systems, discrete mathematics, applied algebra, mathematical statistics, data science, numerical analysis, scientific computing. The closing date for applications is October 31st, 2019. 

See https://www3.unifr.ch/scimed/fr/faculty/positions/.

Assistant Professorship in Applied Mathematics at EPFLOutstanding candidates whose research centers on the mathematical foundations of (statistical) learning are sought, in particular: high dimensional approximation theory, applied and/or computational harmonic analysis, nonparametric and/or high dimensional statistics, as well as non-convex and/or high dimensional continuous optimization. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/appliedmathematics/

Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at EPFLOutstanding candidates with research interests in analysis and/or geometry, broadly construed, are sought. Areas of interest include differential geometry, dynamical systems, geometric analysis, geometric flows, kinetic theory, multiscale analysis and homogenization, (stochastic) PDE. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. 

See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/mathematics/

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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications

* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg,

Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH

* Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

* Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo


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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 37 September 2019

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Contents:

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 30th.

________________________General News

***News from the General Assembly at ISI-WSC

At the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, the Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointments:

Claudia Klüppelberg (TU Munich) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society (with Adam Jakubowski (University of Torun) as President-Elect) and Song Xi Chen (Peking University) replaced Byeong U. Park as Scientific Secretary. 

We thank previous President Susan Murphy and previous Scientific Secretary Byeong U. Park for their dedicated service and steering of the society in the past years.

Approved were also

  • New C(PS)^2 Chair: Michael Beer (University of Hannover)
  • New ERC Chair: Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich)
  • New LARC Chair: Florencia Leonardi (University of São Paulo)

Moreover, a new post "Publicity Secretary" on the Executive Committee and a new standing "Publicity Committee" was established with Victor Panaretos as chair. This gives the ad-hoc officer Publicity Chair (Victor Panaretos, since February 2018) its proper status.

We thank Victor for his support in developing this important new committee.

***Newly elected SLAPEM Committee 2019-2021

Four new members of the Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society have been elected: Juan Carlos Abril (Argentina), Maria Eulalia Vares (Brazil), Richard Serrano-Agila (Ecuador) and Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (México). The elected new Chair of the Committee is Florencia Leonardi (Brazil).

***Mathias Drton wins the Ethel Newbold Prize 2019

During the ISI World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, the Ethel Newbold Prize winner (see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=207 for background on the prize), selected by the Prize Committee chaired by Eva b. Vedel Jensen, was announced to be Prof. Mathias Drton (U Washington, TU Munich). Congratulations!

***Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Statistics 2022

Nominations for the prize are open now. The prize will be presented at the 2023 ISI World Statistics Congress. Nominations should include full name and email address of both the nominee(s) and nominator, as well as a pdf file of the published survey article in statistics. The nomination material should be emailed to Professor Qiwei Yao at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The nomination deadline is February 28th, 2021.  

***Corina Constantinescu as Bernoulli Society Twitter Manager

We are pleased to inform that Corina Constantinescu (University of Liverpool) is taking over as main responsible for the Bernoulli Society Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc. We encourage all BS members to follow the Bernoulli Society on Twitter!

_________________Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society

***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) 

December 2 - 6, 2019

Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México

http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home

The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. 

***Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry (Kendall’s 65th Birthday)

December 9 - 10, 2019

University of Warwick, UK

https://tinyurl.com/y4tzewh7

This two-day meeting will coincide with a celebration of Professor Wilfrid Kendall’s 65th birthday. It will bring together a group of academics working in areas of probability, statistics and theoretical computer science that make use of coupling arguments. In particular, the workshop will be of interest to those working on adaptive MCMC samplers, links between probability and geometry, statistical shape analysis, and perfect simulation algorithms.

***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC)

August 17 - 21, 2020

Seoul, South Korea

http://www.wc2020.org/

The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.

Other Events

***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)

September 22 - 26, 2019

Hannover, Germany

https://esrel2019.org

The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.

***2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics (SWiM) Program

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute invites applications for its 2020 Summer Research for Women in Mathematics program. The purpose of this program is to provide space and funds to groups of women mathematicians to work on a research project at MSRI. Seehttps://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/summer-research-for-women-in-mathematics

_________________Job Offers

Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019.

See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/professorship-in-statistics/

 

Professorship of Mathematics at University of Fribourg/Switzerland. Qualified applicants must have an outstanding track record in a field of mathematics with strong potential for applications, such as (but not limited to): PDE, dynamical systems, discrete mathematics, applied algebra, mathematical statistics, data science, numerical analysis, scientific computing. The closing date for applications is October 31st, 2019. 

See https://www3.unifr.ch/scimed/fr/faculty/positions/.

Assistant Professorship in Applied Mathematics at EPFLOutstanding candidates whose research centers on the mathematical foundations of (statistical) learning are sought, in particular: high dimensional approximation theory, applied and/or computational harmonic analysis, nonparametric and/or high dimensional statistics, as well as non-convex and/or high dimensional continuous optimization. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/appliedmathematics/

Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at EPFLOutstanding candidates with research interests in analysis and/or geometry, broadly construed, are sought. Areas of interest include differential geometry, dynamical systems, geometric analysis, geometric flows, kinetic theory, multiscale analysis and homogenization, (stochastic) PDE. The evaluation process will start on November 1st, 2019. 

See https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/mathematics/

________________Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications

* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg,

Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH

* Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

* Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo

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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 35 
April 2019
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Contents:

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

 

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 30th.

________________________
General News

 

***Bernoulli Society Membership Renewal and Poster

We would like to remind all our members to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership at www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. We would also like to encourage you to diffuse information about special offers and fee reductions available to prospective new members. One way is by printing the Bernoulli membership poster and post it in your department's corridor. You can download it from http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/BernoulliPoster2019.pdf. Thank you! 

 

***New Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary

Prof. Byeong Park will be stepping down as Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary following his election as Vice President of the ISI. We congratulate him and are very grateful to him for his service to the Bernoulli Society in this role. 

The Council has approved Prof. Song Xi Chen (Peking University, http://english.gsm.pku.edu.cn/faculty/en/csx.html ) to replace Prof. Park as Scientific Secretary. The new Scientific Secretary, if approved by the Bernoulli GA at the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur, will begin his term immediately after the WSC, completing Prof. Park's term which runs until the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (August 2020). At that point he can be reappointed for the regular four-year term.

 

***New Bernoulli Society Treasurer

Lynne Billard will be stepping down at the end of this year from the position of Treasurer. The Bernoulli Society is grateful to her for her service! The Council has approved Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge,http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/ )  to succeed Prof. Billard as Treasurer. The new Treasurer will start his four-year term as of January 1, 2020, pending final approval by the Bernoulli Society GA during the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur.

 

***Short Course Program before WSC 2019

Prior to the World Statistics Congress 2019, a rich programme of short courses is being offered to participants. Have a look at  http://www.isi2019.org/short-courses/

 

***Call for Interest in Hosting the Bernoulli-IMS 11th World Congress in 2024

There is a call for proposals to host the 2024 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Susan Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and cc'ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).  The due date for bids is June 29, 2019. 

 

***Book by Ole Barndorff-Nielsen 

The former President of the Bernoulli Society, Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen, has recently published a book "Stochastics in Science: Some autobiographical notes" (published Forlaget Morgenstjerne) which can be of great interest for our community. Summary: "The book gives a kaleidoscopic view of the life of a mathematical scientist. It aims to provide an impression of how multifaceted and fascinating such a life can be, in relation to other scientists. Much of the book can be read without any background knowledge of mathematics, but here and there brief indications of the author's own work are included at stepping stones in the narration. It contains a gallery of remarkable personalities and of historical accounts not available elsewhere. And the author's intense interest in Richard Wagner's operas occasionally shines through." 

 

***Latin American Members (SLAPEM)

Bernoulli Society members baring Latin American nationality or affiliation are also members of the SLAPEM. A partial list of members can be found at http://bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/slapem/members-slapem. Please contact our Membership Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to have your name included. This is an important step prior to organizing elections for the regional committee.

 

***Bernoulli Society on Twitter

Bernoulli Society has launched its own Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc.  We invite all BS members to follow us!

 

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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society

 

***Statistics Conference for Aad Van der Vaart’s 60th Birthday

June 17 - 21, 2019

Leiden, Netherlands

http://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~schmidthieberaj/aadbirthday/index.html

The conference is in honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th birthday. It will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.

 

***11th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA)

July 01 - 05, 2019

Zagreb, Croatia

https://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/eva2019/

This workshop covers all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and its applications in climate and atmospheric science, industrial risks, geoscience, hydrology, finance, economics and insurance, biosciences, physics, telecommunications and stochastic networks. 

 

***41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)

July 08 - 12, 2019

Chicago, USA

http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/SPA2019/ 

SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. 

 

***32nd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) 2019

July 22 - 26, 2019

Palermo, Italy

http://www.ems2019.palermo.it/ 

The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. EMS is a conference where statisticians of all ages and from all regions meet to exchange ideas and talk about the newest developments on the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The conference is organized every other year. 

 

***23rd Brazilian School of Probability (EBP)

July 22 - 27, 2019

São Carlos, Brazil

http://ebp23.icmc.usp.br/

The XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade will be held at the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo. EBP is a traditional international event which has been running since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probability community. It represents a good opportunity for researchers and students from Brazil and abroad to interact in a very high scientific level and including the participation of some of the best world leaderships. The School aims at emphasizing and diffusing the new and more promising research lines in Probability and Stochastic Processes, as well as promoting new collaborations between the participants and opening new horizons to the young researchers.

 

***21st European Young Statisticians Meeting

July 29 - August 02, 2019

Belgrade, Serbia

http://www.eysm2019.matf.bg.ac.rs/

The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The idea of the meeting is to provide young researchers (less than thirty years of age or two to eight years of research experience) an introduction to the international scene within the broad subject area - from pure probability theory to applied statistics. 

***62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 

August 18 - 23, 2019

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

http://www.isi2019.org

The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. During the congress, a Bernoulli General Assembly and a New Researchers’ reception will take place, where all members of BS are invited. We hope many BS members participate in the events.  

 

***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) 

December 2 - 6, 2019

Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México

http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home

The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. The call for contributed sessions is now open, as well as nominations for the Francisco Arnada Prize.

 

***10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics

August 17 - 21, 2020

Seoul, South Korea

http://www.wc2020.org/

The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.

 

Other Events

 

***Singapore-Abu Dhabi-Shanghai-India Probability Meeting (SASI)

May 27 - 29, 2019

Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2019/prob/

The aim of the meeting is to bring together probability researchers from the Asia region, in particular from Singapore, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Shanghai, and India, to foster research collaborations and discussions amongst all on a regular basis.

***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)

September 22 - 26, 2019

Hannover, Germany

https://esrel2019.org

The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.

 

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Job Offers

 

 

* Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019

See https://professeurs.epfl.ch/fr/professorship-in-statistics-2/.  

 

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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications

 

* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH, Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg

 

* Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

 

* Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo

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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 35 
April 2019
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Contents:

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

 

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 30th.

________________________
General News

 

***Bernoulli Society Membership Renewal and Poster

We would like to remind all our members to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership at www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. We would also like to encourage you to diffuse information about special offers and fee reductions available to prospective new members. One way is by printing the Bernoulli membership poster and post it in your department's corridor. You can download it from http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/BernoulliPoster2019.pdf. Thank you! 

 

***New Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary

Prof. Byeong Park will be stepping down as Bernoulli Society Scientific Secretary following his election as Vice President of the ISI. We congratulate him and are very grateful to him for his service to the Bernoulli Society in this role. 

The Council has approved Prof. Song Xi Chen (Peking University, http://english.gsm.pku.edu.cn/faculty/en/csx.html ) to replace Prof. Park as Scientific Secretary. The new Scientific Secretary, if approved by the Bernoulli GA at the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur, will begin his term immediately after the WSC, completing Prof. Park's term which runs until the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (August 2020). At that point he can be reappointed for the regular four-year term.

 

***New Bernoulli Society Treasurer

Lynne Billard will be stepping down at the end of this year from the position of Treasurer. The Bernoulli Society is grateful to her for her service! The Council has approved Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge,http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/ )  to succeed Prof. Billard as Treasurer. The new Treasurer will start his four-year term as of January 1, 2020, pending final approval by the Bernoulli Society GA during the 2019 WSC in Kuala Lumpur.

 

***Short Course Program before WSC 2019

Prior to the World Statistics Congress 2019, a rich programme of short courses is being offered to participants. Have a look at  http://www.isi2019.org/short-courses/

 

***Call for Interest in Hosting the Bernoulli-IMS 11th World Congress in 2024

There is a call for proposals to host the 2024 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Susan Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and cc'ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).  The due date for bids is June 29, 2019. 

 

***Book by Ole Barndorff-Nielsen 

The former President of the Bernoulli Society, Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen, has recently published a book "Stochastics in Science: Some autobiographical notes" (published Forlaget Morgenstjerne) which can be of great interest for our community. Summary: "The book gives a kaleidoscopic view of the life of a mathematical scientist. It aims to provide an impression of how multifaceted and fascinating such a life can be, in relation to other scientists. Much of the book can be read without any background knowledge of mathematics, but here and there brief indications of the author's own work are included at stepping stones in the narration. It contains a gallery of remarkable personalities and of historical accounts not available elsewhere. And the author's intense interest in Richard Wagner's operas occasionally shines through." 

 

***Latin American Members (SLAPEM)

Bernoulli Society members baring Latin American nationality or affiliation are also members of the SLAPEM. A partial list of members can be found at http://bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/slapem/members-slapem. Please contact our Membership Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to have your name included. This is an important step prior to organizing elections for the regional committee.

 

***Bernoulli Society on Twitter

Bernoulli Society has launched its own Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc.  We invite all BS members to follow us!

 

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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society

 

***Statistics Conference for Aad Van der Vaart’s 60th Birthday

June 17 - 21, 2019

Leiden, Netherlands

http://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~schmidthieberaj/aadbirthday/index.html

The conference is in honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th birthday. It will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.

 

***11th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA)

July 01 - 05, 2019

Zagreb, Croatia

https://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/eva2019/

This workshop covers all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and its applications in climate and atmospheric science, industrial risks, geoscience, hydrology, finance, economics and insurance, biosciences, physics, telecommunications and stochastic networks. 

 

***41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)

July 08 - 12, 2019

Chicago, USA

http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/SPA2019/ 

SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. 

 

***32nd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) 2019

July 22 - 26, 2019

Palermo, Italy

http://www.ems2019.palermo.it/ 

The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. EMS is a conference where statisticians of all ages and from all regions meet to exchange ideas and talk about the newest developments on the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The conference is organized every other year. 

 

***23rd Brazilian School of Probability (EBP)

July 22 - 27, 2019

São Carlos, Brazil

http://ebp23.icmc.usp.br/

The XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade will be held at the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo. EBP is a traditional international event which has been running since 1997 by initiative of the Brazilian probability community. It represents a good opportunity for researchers and students from Brazil and abroad to interact in a very high scientific level and including the participation of some of the best world leaderships. The School aims at emphasizing and diffusing the new and more promising research lines in Probability and Stochastic Processes, as well as promoting new collaborations between the participants and opening new horizons to the young researchers.

 

***21st European Young Statisticians Meeting

July 29 - August 02, 2019

Belgrade, Serbia

http://www.eysm2019.matf.bg.ac.rs/

The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The idea of the meeting is to provide young researchers (less than thirty years of age or two to eight years of research experience) an introduction to the international scene within the broad subject area - from pure probability theory to applied statistics. 

***62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 

August 18 - 23, 2019

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

http://www.isi2019.org

The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. During the congress, a Bernoulli General Assembly and a New Researchers’ reception will take place, where all members of BS are invited. We hope many BS members participate in the events.  

 

***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) 

December 2 - 6, 2019

Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México

http://clapem2019.eventos.cimat.mx/home

The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. The call for contributed sessions is now open, as well as nominations for the Francisco Arnada Prize.

 

***10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics

August 17 - 21, 2020

Seoul, South Korea

http://www.wc2020.org/

The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.

 

Other Events

 

***Singapore-Abu Dhabi-Shanghai-India Probability Meeting (SASI)

May 27 - 29, 2019

Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2019/prob/

The aim of the meeting is to bring together probability researchers from the Asia region, in particular from Singapore, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Shanghai, and India, to foster research collaborations and discussions amongst all on a regular basis.

***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)

September 22 - 26, 2019

Hannover, Germany

https://esrel2019.org

The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.

 

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Job Offers

 

 

* Assistant Professorship in Statistics at EPFL. Outstanding candidates with research interests in the development and application of novel statistical methodology, including candidates focusing on a substantive application area are sought. Indicative methodological interests include large scale and causal inference, computationally intensive inference, and nonparametric inference. Indicative areas of application include, but are not limited to, biomedical science, genetics/genomics, environmental and earth science, physics and astronomy. The evaluation process will start on October 1st, 2019

See https://professeurs.epfl.ch/fr/professorship-in-statistics-2/.  

 

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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications

 

* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH, Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg

 

* Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

 

* Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo

 
 
 
 
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Contents:
  • GENERAL NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Carlos Améndola This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by March 30th.
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General News
***Membership Renewal
We would like to remind all our members to renew their annual Bernoulli Society membership at www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/membership. We would also like to encourage you to diffuse information about special offers and fee reductions available to prospective new members.
***Bernoulli Society Membership Poster
Help us promote the Bernoulli Society! We would be grateful if you could print the Bernoulli membership poster and post it in your department's corridor. You can download it from http://www.bernoulli-society.org/files/BernoulliPoster2019.pdf. Thank you! 
***New Bernoulli News Editor
Manuele Leonelli (Glasgow, UK) https://sites.google.com/site/manueleleonelli/home has become our new Bernoulli News editor, succeeding Miguel de Carvalho. Many thanks to Miguel for his hard work over the last years!
***Nominations for Bernoulli Prize survey article in Probability
Nominations are sought for the Bernoulli prize for an outstanding survey article in probability, see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes?id=156. Nominations should be sent, along with a short (max 1/2 page) explanation, to the chair of the selection committee, Ofer Zeitouni at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2019.
***2019 Itô Prize Winners
Congratulations to Professor Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Professor Masatoshi Fukushima (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), for their paper: Stochastic Komatsu-Loewner evolution and BMD domain constant, Stochastic Processes and Applications, Volume 128 (2018), 545-594. The award will be presented at SPA 2019 where the authors will give a plenary talk.
*** Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2020
The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications to the New Researcher Award 2020. Each awardee shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2020, and will receive a funding up to 1000€ to offset travel and other expenses. The deadline is March 15, 2019 and candidates should apply through the web form https://goo.gl/forms/v8zDJaFUKj5IGEG73
***Bernoulli Lecturers for the 2020 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress
The named Bernoulli Lecturers for the 2020 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics have been announced. Persi Diaconis will give the Kolmogorov Lecture, Alison Etheridge will give the Bernoulli Lecture, Massimilliano Gubinelli will give the Lévy Lecture, Tony Cai will give the Laplace Lecture and Sara van der Greer will give the Tukey Lecture.
***Expression of interest to host EMS 2022
The European Regional Committee (ERC) of the Bernoulli Society invites interested parties to express their interest to host and organize the European Meeting of Statisticians in 2022. The deadline for receipt of the expression of interest is March 31, 2019. Expressions of interest should be emailed to the chair of the ERC, Marloes Maathuis. For more information see http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/organization/erc/ems
 
***Bernoulli Society on Twitter
Bernoulli Society has launched its own Twitter account, @BernoulliSoc We invite all BS members to follow us!
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Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
***Statistics Conference for Aad Van der Vaart’s 60th Birthday
June 17 - 21, 2019
Leiden, Netherlands
The conference is in honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th birthday. It will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.
 
***11th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA)
July 01 - 05, 2019
Zagreb, Croatia
This workshop covers all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and its applications in climate and atmospheric science, industrial risks, geoscience, hydrology, finance, economics and insurance, biosciences, physics, telecommunications and stochastic networks. 
 
***41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
July 08 - 12, 2019
Chicago, USA
SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. 
***European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) 2019
July 22 - 26, 2019
Palermo, Italy
The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main conference in statistics and probability in Europe. EMS is a conference where statisticians of all ages and from all regions meet to exchange ideas and talk about the newest developments on the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The conference is organized every other year. 
***21st European Young Statisticians Meeting
July 29 - August 02, 2019
Belgrade, Serbia
The European Young Statisticians Meetings are held every two years under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The idea of the meeting is to provide young researchers (less than thirty years of age or two to eight years of research experience) an introduction to the international scene within the broad subject area - from pure probability theory to applied statistics. 
***62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 
August 18 - 23, 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The 62nd ISI WSC 2019 will bring together about 2,500 delegates from all over the world among statistical researchers, academia, industry practitioners, analysts and policymakers, to share insights on development in statistical science and to advance application of statistics for discovery, innovation and decision making. About 1,300 papers in various statistical disciplines and applications will be presented and discussed over a period of five days.
***XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM 2019) 
December 2 - 6, 2019
Hotel Castellano, Merida-Yucatán, México
The Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (CLAPEM) is the official meeting of the Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática (SLAPEM), the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It is the major event in Probability and Statistics in the region and it gathers an important number of researchers and students, predominantly from Latin America. The call for contributed sessions is now open, as well as nominations for the Francisco Arnada Prize.
***10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics
August 17 - 21, 2020
Seoul, South Korea
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
Other Events
***Singapore-Abu Dhabi-Shanghai-India Probability Meeting (SASI)
May 27 - 29, 2019
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
The aim of the meeting is to bring together probability researchers from the Asia region, in particular from Singapore, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Shanghai, and India, to foster research collaborations and discussions amongst all of us on a regular basis.
***29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)
September 22 - 26, 2019
Hannover, Germany
The Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPSPS) of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability is supporting the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference as a collaborative partner. ESREL is organized by the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). The objective of ESREL 2019 is to provide an all-round inspiring environment and a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of knowledge and expertise on theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and on their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. Papers presented will be published in open access conference proceedings by Research Publishing Services, Singapore.
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Job Offers
* Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. On sequential decision making in mobile health, including experimental design and reinforcement learning algorithms. This position is in Professor Susan Murphy's lab. The successful applicant will be expected to develop an innovative research program in sequential decision making. See https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/open-positions
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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Stochastic Processes and their Applications http://goo.gl/JCahtH, Bernoulli http://goo.gl/yJywLg
* Co-sponsored publications
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
* Bernoulli News
Latest issue at http://goo.gl/nRDPYo
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