Committee Work
The Committee has cosponsored a number of conferences this year:
The Organizers of the Brazilian Conference emphasized afterwards how
important the Committee's sponsorship had been in obtaining funding for
their meeting.
The Committee is currently sponsoring:
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The Eighth Summer Workshop New Zealand, to be held at the
Mathematical Research Institute, Napier, New Zealand, on 6-11 January 2002;
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The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) 2002 Conference
to be held in Italy.
One workshop that the Committee is currently working on developing
concerns Statistics and Oceanography. It is projected for June-July of
2003 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Committee has a web site at:
where more details may be obtained.
David R. Brillinger
Chair C(PS)2
An international conference under the auspices of the EAPRC of the BS
and the IMS took place in Kuala Lumpur. The conference "International
Conference and Workshop on Recent Developments in Statistics and Its
Applications", held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 26-30 June 2001,
was organized by Institute of Statistics Malaysia and Institute of
Mathematical Science, University of Malaya.
The International Programme members were Mokhtar Abdullah (Co-Chairman),
Tim Brown, Louis H.Y. Chen, Choon Peng Tan, Chii-Ruey Hwang
(Co-Chairman), Iain Johnstone, Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul, Albert Lo,
Vijay Nair, Yoshihiko Ogata.
The Invited Speakers for the conference (26-28 June) included Peter
Hall, Louis Chen, Jianquing Fan, Su-Yun Huang, Krishna Athreya, Quah
Soon Hoe, Mokoto Maejima, Loh Wei Lien.
The Invited Speakers for the workshop (27-28 June) were Chen-Hsin Chen,
Peter Hall, Vijay Nair.
Louis Chen and Mokhtar Abdullah tried very hard to overcome difficulties
in the organizing stage. And we had a very successful conference in
Kuala Lumpur.
The 2002 EAPRC conference is planned to be held (jointly with Taipei
Symposium) in Taipei in July 2002. The Institute of Statistical Science,
Academia Sinica, is the local host. Jianquing Fan and Shuenn-Jyi Sheu
will be representing EAPRC in the program committee.
Chii-Ruey Hwang
Past Chair EARPC
The European Regional Committee had its 2001 meeting during the 23rd European
Meeting of Statisticians in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The most important
points at the meeting and in email discussions during the previous year were:
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Claudia Klüppelberg (Germany) was appointed for the
Chair of the ERC for the term 2002-2004.
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According to its constitution the ERC has nominated the
following candidates to be elected for the period 2002-2006:
Stephen P.Brooks (UK), Alexander Bulinski (Russia), Petros Dellaportas
(Greece), Ingrid K.Glad (Norway), Adam Jakubowski (Poland), Tõnu Kollo
(Estonia), Catherine Larédo (France), and Daniel Peña (Spain).
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The ERC has appointed Gestine Reinert and Aad van der Vaart
as members and Bärbel Finkenstädt as Chair of the Steering Group
of Séminaire Européen de Statistique (SemStat).
The ERC is deeply grateful to the retiring Chairperson Claudia Klüppelberg
for doing a fantastic job and for the enormous amount of work she has invested
in the SemStat. The ERC is also grateful to Rainer Dahlhaus and Peter Spreij
who have ended their terms on the Steering Group for their work for SemStat.
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The next SemStat instructional workshop will take place in
Gothenburg, Sweden in the period 10-15 December 2001. The subject will
be Extreme Value Theory and Applications, and the main lecturers will be
Sid Resnick, Thomas Mikosch, Claudia Klüppelberg and Richard Smith.
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The ERC wishes to express its profound gratitude to the
organiser of the 23rd European Meeting of Statisticians, Dinis Pestana,
and the organising committee
as well as to the programme committee and its Chairman, Anthony Davison, for
the wonderful job they have all done in organizing a successful EMS. Also
the work under difficult circumstances of the organiser of the 12th
European Young Statisticians Meeting,
Radoslav Harman, and his collaborators is gratefully appreciated by the ERC.
Without the dedicated work of people like these the Bernoulli Society could
not uphold its many activities.
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The 24th EMS will take place 19-23 August 2002
in Prague, Czech Republic; see
The meeting will be joint with the Prague
Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, and Random
Processes. The Chairman of the organizing committee is Martin Janzura, and the
Chairman of the programme committee is Thomas Mikosch. The programme is
now in place and the organisational preparations are going according to plan.
There will be two satellite meetings: 2nd International Workshop on
Perspectives in Modern Statistical Inference, Brno (Czech Republic),
14-17 August 2002, and International Workshop on Statistics in Genetics,
Munich (Germany), 14-16 August 2002.
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The 25th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in 2005.
The venue has not yet been decided.
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It has been decided to draft during the next year up-dated
versions of the ERC constitution, the EMS scenario and the SemStat scenario.
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The ERC was represented by Jef Teugels at a workshop on
`Applied Mathematics in Europe' organised by the European Mathematical
Society. After the workshop there have been contacts between the ERC and the
European Mathematical Society to consider possibilities for collaboration.
One possibility would be focussed joint meetings on subjects where both
statistical methods and methods from other areas of mathematics are fruitfully
applied, for instance bioinformatics and telecommunication.
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The ERC now has a web-page at the address
Here details about the activities of the ERC and about future meetings can be
found.
Michael Sørensen
Chair ERC
