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The members of the ERC had their 1999 meeting during the ISI Session in Helsinki. The most important decisions were:
The 23rd European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Funchal, Portugal, from 13-19 August, 2001. The current work of the Programme Committee, which consists of Teresa Alpuim, Anthony Davison (Chair), Olle Häggström, Nils Lid Hjort, Isaac Meilijson and Mauro Piccioni, has been appreciated and approved. The suggestion to move the 23rd EMS from Lisbon, where the meeting had been earlier planned to be held, to Funchal, the capital of the island Madeira, was submitted to the ERC by Dinis Pestana, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, immediately before the meeting in Helsinki. In Helsinki, the decision was postponed until all the pros and cons had been thoroughly investigated. In particular, the decision was made conditional to getting reduced air fares from Lisbon to Funchal and back to Lisbon. The decision to move the 23rd EMS to Funchal was finally reached in September.
The 24th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Prague, from August 19-23, 2002. A formal invitation was sent to Martin Janzura of the Czech Academy of Sciences to host the 24th EMS and become the Chairman of its Organizing Committee. It was decided that another invitation will be sent to Marie Huskova to become the incoming ERC Programme Co-ordinator for the 2000-2002 term, with the intention that she will start her work on forming a Programme Committee for the 24th EMS as soon as possible.
Jacek Koronacki
Chair, ERC
Renovation of the LARC Committee is to take place, as the terms of office have expired for Victor Perez-Abreu (Past President), Guido del Pino and Luis Raul Pericchi (Current President). The three outgoing members have agreed to form a Nominations Committee to propose three new members for the next LARC. Elections will be held via regular mail from January until May 2000.
In March 2000, Louis H. Y. Chen and Chii-Ruey Hwang went to Kuala Lumpur to discuss with Mokhtar Abdullah, President of the Institute of Statistics Malaysia (ISM), Tan Choon Peng, EAPRC member in Malaysia, and other local organizers concerning the EAPRC conference in 2001. The first announcement is expected soon.
The title of the conference is "International Conference and Workshop on Statistics and Applications, June 26-30, 2001, Kuala Lumpur" organized by Institute of Statistics Malaysia and Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaysia.
The first three days are for the conference which will cover a lot of topics, e.g. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Non-parametric Methods, Robust Statistics, Spatial Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Neural Networks, Biostatistics, Wavelets in Statistics, Data Mining and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data, Statistics in Quality and Productivity Improvement, MCMC, etc. The last two days are for the Workshop on Quality and Productivity Improvement, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
The International Programme Committee (IPC) consists of Tim Brown, Louis H. Y. Chen, Chii-Ruey Hwang (Co-Chairman), Albert Lo, Mokhtar Abudullah (Co-Chairman), Vijay Nair, Yosihiko Ogata, Tan Choon Peng, and to be confirmed: Iain Johnstone, Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul. The invited speakers and some more topics will be decided by the IPC.
The Local Organizing Committee consists of Mokhtar Abudullah (Chairman), Tan Choon Peng, Najib Mahmood Rafee, Nooreha Husain, Karuthan Chinna, Abdul Ghapor Hussin, Sharifah Latifah Syed Abdul Kadir and Azme Khamis.
This is the third EAPRC Conference. We would like to encourage more participants from statistics. The first one was in Taejon, Korea, the second one in Hanoi, Vietnam. We plan to to have the fourth one in Thailand.
Chii-Ruey Hwang
Chair, EAPRC
The meeting of the Bernoulli World Congress, May 15-20, 2000, in Guanajuato, Mexico, marks the official passing of the chair of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences from Ed Waymire (1995-2000) to David Brillinger.
The general mission of C(PS)2 is to foster research and education pertaining to probability and statistics in the physical sciences by pursuing interdisciplinary communication with professional communities of physical scientists and engineers.
The primary mechanism used to achieve committee goals has been via promotion, support, and participation in various interdisciplinary conferences sessions and workshops devoted to some aspect of probability and statistics in the physical sciences. This will continue. To further facilitate this effort the committee plans to sponsor a variety of "Hot Topics" conferences and workshops on this theme. The plan is for each Hot Topic meeting to be co-organized by researchers from an area of probability/statistics and from a physical science/engineering area. Detailed reports from these meetings will appear in Bernoulli News and in the companion disciplinary newsletter. Each new incoming member of C(PS)2 will pledge to try to organize such a meeting in his/her role as a committee member. Please send David your ideas and suggestions.
C(PS)2 has proposed to the Bernoulli council that the chair serve for 4 years to begin and end with consecutive meetings of the Bernoulli World Congress. As we are presently structured, for any given four year term there will be a Chair, and Chair Elect in service. In this model the outgoing chair may (informally) serve on the committee an additional year as "Past Chair" for continuity. At the end of the four years, the Current Chair may continue on the committee for one more year as a Past Chair and the Chair Elect moves to the Chair.
The outgoing chair, Ed Waymire, wishes to take this opportunity to thank the committee members who have served with him during this past five years. The incoming chair, David Brillinger, wishes to say that Ed has done a fantastic job. We all have to be very grateful to him for that.
Ed Waymire,
Chair C(PS)2, 1995-2000
David Brillinger,
Chair C(PS)2, 2000-2004
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