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BS 5th World CongressThe 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics have been jointly held at the Convention Center in Guanajuato (Mexico) over the period of 15-20 May 2000. Funding was provided by National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, Elsevier Publishing Company, Organization of American States, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, ISI Development Fund and the State of Guanajuato.
The conference was very successful owing to excellent presentations by the invited speakers and the exceptional quality of the contributed talks. These sessions were very well attended each day of the conference. We will describe a few highlights of the conference here, but a conference archive will be available on the web for details of the schedule of talks, downloading abstracts and the participant list at http://www.cimat.mx.
The Opening Ceremony was held in the presence of the Governor of the State of Guanajuato and the Major of the City of Guanajuato. The traditional special invited lectures were given by J.Teugels (Opening Lecture), S.R.S.Varadhan (Kolmogorov Lecture), N.Reid (Wald Lectures), M.West (IMS Invited Lecture), I.Karatzas (IMS Invited Lecture), M.Yor (Special Lecture on SP&A), W.Van Der Vaart (IMS Invited Lecture), M.E.Bock (Neyman Lecture), E.Bolthausen (IMS Invited Lecture), I.Johnstone (Laplace Lecture), P.Donnelly (Bernoulli Lecture). To mark the 25th Anniversary of Bernoulli Society Professor Jozef L. Teugels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, delivered a historical overview talk.
The program included a rich variety of invited talks and contributed papers on more traditional themes like general inference, time series, statistics and probability in life sciences, probability and statistics in natural and social sciences, applied probability and probability.
The conference banquet, which was a Mexican Night, took place at the beautiful gardens of Ex-Hacienda San Gabriel de Barrera, set in a colonial-period mining estate.
Attendance totalled about 550, divided among invited and contributed speakers, academic researchers, graduate students. Participants were drawn largely from Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia and US.
Victor Perez Abreu
Head of the Local Organizing Committee
Thirty-five of the world's leading authorities in mathematics and theoretical physics, including the 1999 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Gerardus 't Hooft, delivered lectures at the International Conference on Fundamental Sciences held at the Sheraton Towers hotel in Singapore from 13 to 17 March 2000. Participants from over 20 countries from around the world attended the conference including academics, researchers from the public and private sectors, school teachers and students. The conference consisted of three main components, namely, scientific sessions, public talks and talks to schools. The lectures for the scientific sessions and the poster session for contributed papers, which attracted an average of 200 participants daily, took place at the hotel. There were three public lectures meant for a general audience, two of which were delivered on the campus of the National University of Singapore. Finally, seven lectures aimed at high school students were delivered at selected schools and junior colleges over two days to large groups of students and teachers from neighbouring clusters of schools.
Stella Pang
After the "Stochastik-Tage" in Marburg 1993, Freiberg (Sachsen) 1996
and Munich 1998 the "Fachgruppe Stochastik" organized her fourth
"Stochastik-Tage" at the University of Hamburg, on 21-24 March 2000.
Following the tradition
of the former conferences the "Hamburger Stochastik-Tage" again gave
opportunity to participants from universities, business and
administration to present new results in the field of probability and
statistics - in theory as well as in practice - and to discuss them
with colleagues in an international environment. Some 350 participants from
17 countries attendended the conference and gave about 250 lectures
covering a broad range of fields:
Medical Statistics and Biometry, Stochastic Methods in Optimization and
Operations Research Asymptotic Statistics, Nonparametrics and
Resampling, Statistics of Stochastic Processes and Time Series,
Monte-Carlo-Methods, Simulation and Image Processing, Data Analysis
and Design of Experiments, Model Choice in Statistics, Limit Theorems
and Large Deviations, Statistics of Extremes and Subexponential
Distributions, Insurance and Finance, Stochastic Geometry and Spatial
Statistics, Stochastic Networks and Random Graphs Stochastic Models in
Biology und Physics, Stochastic Analysis, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic
Theory, Quality Control and Reliability Theory
Plenary lectures were given by B.W.Silverman (Bristol) on `Wavelets in nonparametric curve estimation', by P.Deheuvels (Paris) on `Functional Limit Laws in Statistics', and by W.Schmidt (Frankfurt/M.) on `Modeling Credit Derivatives'.
During the Conference the prize of the Fachgruppe for the best Ph.D. dissertation of the last two years has been awarded to Ingo Steinke (Rostock). The picture below shows Claudia Klüppelberg, chairwoman of the Fachgruppe Stochastik, awarding the prize to Ingo Steinke.
A panel discussion on Stochastics after the year 2000 was given by O.Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), P.Deheuvels (Paris), R.Grübel (Hannover), F.den Hollander (Nijmegen), and W.van Zwet (Eindhoven).
G.Neuhaus
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