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Please see also the list of upcoming conferences and meetings.

Announcements and News

Bernoulli Society and IMS call for preliminary bids/expressions of interest from academics interested in running a Bernoulli-IMS World Congress at their institution in 2028. The deadline for submission is March 31st, 2023. The location of the 2028 meeting will be announced during the11th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Bochum in 2024.

The bids should be sent to the two society presidents

  • Adam Jakubowski <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
  • Peter Bühlmann <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

and copied to the two society presidents-elect

  • Victor Panaretos <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
  • Michael Kosorok <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


The winners of the New Researcher Award 2023 in Mathematical Statistics are:

  • Edgar Dobriban (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Qiyang Han (Rutgers University)
  • Lucas Janson (Harvard University)

The awardees will deliver a talk at the special invited session during the ISI World Statistics Congress Conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada, July 15 – 20, 2023, and will each receive a funding up to 1000 € to offset travel and other expenses.

The committee also honors three additional applicants:

  • Thomas B. Berrett (University of Warwick)
  • Zijian Guo (Rutgers University)
  • Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania)

 


Yinon Spinka (University of British Columbia, Tel Aviv University) has been awarded the 2022 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize. The Prize is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory. The committee was chaired by Christina Goldschmidt and consisted of Ivan Corwin, Nina Gantert, Panki Kim, Hubert Lacoin, Fabio Toninelli and Bálint Tóth. Congratulations! The list of past recipients can be found here


The Bernoulli Society is sponsoring the first International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science (IDWSDS), an initiative from the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) and the Portuguese Statistical Association (SPE). The online event will take place on October 11, 2022. There will be a place for both live and recorded presentations, in the spirit of the first Around the World conference

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The aim includes showcasing women's contributions to the field and connecting women statisticians and data scientists around the world. This is in line with other recent initiatives designed to increase women in STEM disciplines, such as the International Day for Women in Mathematics, and ISI’s International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science

Please submit session ideas and sponsorship requests to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and follow the Twitter account @cwstat for updates.


In reaction to the military aggression by the Russian Federation, the Executive Committee of the Bernoulli Society, in consultation with the European Regional Committee, has decided to cancel the European Meeting of Statisticians 2022 in Moscow. We appreciate the significant efforts that have been invested in the preparation of this meeting. We express our deepest sympathy and support to the Ukrainian people.


The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications to the New Researcher Award 2023. Each awardee
shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the ISI World Statistics Congress Conference
to be held in Ottawa, Canada, July 15-20, 2023, and will receive a funding up to 1000 € to offset
travel and other expenses. Bernoulli News will publish their pictures and a paragraph about their
work.

Eligible candidates are active researchers in Mathematical Statistics who obtained the Ph.D. degree on
or after March 15th, 2017, and who are regular members of the Bernoulli Society. An extension
may be given to those having had disruptions after receiving the Ph.D., such as parenthood.
Candidates should apply through the webform https://forms.gle/yQg8F6fDx7qLLCAMA and send
the required documents to the e-mail address indicated in the form.

Deadline: March 15th, 2022


The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2022 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.

The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory. 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 the Doeblin Prize Lecture at a Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

More information about the Wolfgang Doeblin prize and past awardees can be found at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/.

Each nomination should offer a brief but adequate case of support and should be sent by December 30, 2021, to the chair of the prize committee, Christina Goldschmidt, at the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2022.


Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich) has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize. The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. The Ethel Newbold Prize is generously supported by Wiley.


Our dear colleague Maria Eulália Vares has been awarded the inaugural Willem van Zwet Medal for Special Service to the Bernoulli Society in recognition of her outstanding service to the Bernoulli Society as Publications Committee member and chair, and as Editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA). She played a key part in negotiations with Elsevier concerning Stochastic Processes and their Applications, showing great leadership in helping to obtain better prices and open access conditions for SPA and initiation of Elsevier's support for young researchers and students to participate in Bernoulli Society sponsored meetings, among other benefits. She has also served the Latin American Regional Committee and joined in organization of Bernoulli-sponsored events such as the Brazilian School of Probability, thus promoting the development of Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Latin America.


Dear fellow member of the Bernoulli Society

Now more than ever we depend on all kinds of sustained and dedicated service by colleagues. To mark exceptional service, and also to honour Willem van Zwet, who served Bernoulli Society and its aims in many special ways, the Bernoulli Society is launching the Willem van Zwet Medal for special service to the Bernoulli Society. We want to draw your attention to this award, which will be awarded biennially. For further details please visit the Willem van Zwet Medal webpage, which includes instructions on how to make nominations. If you know of someone who has given remarkable service to the Bernoulli Society, then please do consider nominating them for the first instance of this biennial award. 

Please send your nomination according to the instructions given on the website to Wilfrid Kendall (Committee Chair) <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
 
The deadline for nominations is noon GMT, 15 March 2021.

With most cordial best wishes,

Claudia Klüppelberg 
President of the Bernoulli Society

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