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The Elsevier Lectures has been renamed to
During 2000 the Bernoulli Society negotiated reduced subscription rates with Elsevier, publisher of Stochastic Processes and their Applications, for subscriptions in 2001 and in the future. Subscribers who take the option of quarterly in lieu of monthly distribution of the paper journal (and receive complete access to the electronic version) pay ½ the regular subscription rate. One must request this special price -- it appears not to be advertised -- and persist in the request. Elsevier has also reduced quite substantially the price to a member of the Society for SPA.
In addition, BS members can establish free electronic access to SPA:
http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/sac/main/index.htt?area=main&item=BSMembersSPA
Philip Hougaard from Novo Nordisk has been appointed as external professor of statistics at the faculties of Health Sciences and Science & Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Philip Hougaard is an internationally renowned expert in analysis of survival data, and in his research he has made important contributions in both mathematical statistics and the applications of statistics in medicine. In particular, his work on frailty models has been important for the study of the data in the Danish Twin Registry.
The title external professor is an unpaid honorary title given for a period of five years, which allows him to lecture at and do collaborative research with the department. His inaugural lecture was entitled "The normality assumption: Pro et contra".
Philip Hougaard holds an M.Sc., a Ph.D. and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Copenhagen. He works with pre-clinical as well clinical projects within drug development at Novo Nordisk, particularly in diabetes. His list of publications includes 90 scientific papers and the book Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data.
Philip Hougaard will be associated with the Department of Statistics and Demography at SDU. The department, which started in 1997, is an interdisciplinary and cross-faculty department with research groups in biostatistics, mathematical statistics and econometrics. University of Southern Denmark was formed in 1998 by a fusion of the former Odense University with several other educational institutions in Southern Denmark, and the university is spread over five campuses. Further information on the department and the university may be found at http://www.sdu.dk/tvf/statdem/ and http://www.sdu.dk/.
About one year ago a research training network on "Statistical Methods for Dynamical Stochastic Models" started its activities under the programme Improving Human Potential financed by the The Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission. The principal aim of the network is to make a major contribution to the theory of statistical inference for stochastic processes by taking advantage of the tools of modern probability theory including stochastic calculus and by using highly computer-intensive methods. The principal objectives are: (1) Development of statistical methods for continuous-time stochastic processes and investigation of the properties of the developed procedures; (2) Development of asymptotic statistical theory and related general theory for stochastic processes; (3) Modelling and statistical data analysis in finance, turbulence, hydrology, and telecommunication. The nine participating teams are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cartagena (Spain), Copenhagen, Freiburg (Germany), Helsinki, London, Padua (Italy), and Paris. Universities in a few other cities in Denmark, France, Germany, and the Netherlands are involved in the network too. So far two workshops and two concentrated courses have been held by the network.
The network has funds to employ young researchers during 162 months that are distributed between the teams. These positions are for young researchers at the post-doc as well as the pre-doc level. The positions at the pre-doc level are mainly for Ph.D. students at other universities who wish to spend some time in one of the teams of the network. In order to be employed in the network, the young researcher must be less than 35 years old, and he/she cannot be employed in a country where he/she is a citizen or has worked within the last two years. The young researcher must be a citizen of a member state of the European Union or of an associated state, or must have resided in the European Union for at least five years prior to his/her appointment in the network.
Further information about the research training network on "Statistical Methods for Dynamical Stochastic Models" and about vacant positions in the network teams can be found at the web-site of the network http://www.math.ku.dk/~michael/dynstoch
Young researchers interested in a position in the network should contact the scientist in charge of the team in which he or she would like to work or the scientific coordinator of the network, Michael Sørensen. Contact information can be found at the network web-site.
The Department of Statistics invites applications for two positions, starting 1 July 2002 or a later date to be arranged. Each position is at Assistant Professor level, tenure track; or at Associate Professor level with tenure, depending on qualifications. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field and an outstanding research and teaching record for appointment with tenure, or demonstrated interest and ability to achieve such a record for a tenure track appointment. Preferred research areas are computational statistics, bioinformatics/biostatistics or time series/spatial statistics. Candidates with demonstrated research interest in methods for machine learning, the analysis of large and complex data, high-dimensional data, image data or longitudinal data are strongly encouraged to apply. The successful candidates will be expected to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. UC Davis has launched Bioinformatics and Computational Science initiatives, and is planning to establish a graduate program in Biostatistics, in addition to the existing PhD/MS program in Statistics. Information about the department and programs offered can be found at http://www-stat.ucdavis.edu/. Send letter of application, including a statement of research interests, curriculum vitae with publication list, at least three letters of reference, relevant reprints/preprints, and transcripts (applicants with Ph.D. obtained in 2000 or later) to: Chair, Search Committee, Department of Statistics, 1 Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, CA 95616, USA. Review of applications will begin on 1 January 2002, and will continue until the positions are filled. The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff.
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