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In view of the logistic delays and preventive measures brought about by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in March/April 2003, this meeting has been postponed. A revised schedule will soon appear at www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/microarray/ . Please contact Ming-Ying Leung at mleung@utsa.edu or Louxin Zhang at matzlx@nus.edu.sg for details.
This conference will be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, 23–27 June 2003. For information about the institute see www.ihp.jussieu.fr/ .
The provisional list of speakers is as follows. D Appelbaum (Nottingham), O Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), F Bardou (Strasbourg), L Chaumont (Paris), S Cohen (Toulouse), R Cont (Palaiseau), R Doney (Manchester), T Duquesne (Orsay), E Eberlein (Freiburg), U Frisch (Nice), T Huillet (Cergy), N Jacob (Swansea), Z Jurek (Wroclaw), D Khoshnevisan (Salt Lake City), C Klüppelberg (Munich), H Kohatsu-Higa (Barcelona), J-F le Gall (Paris), Y le Jan (Orsay), D Madan (Maryland), M Marcus (New York), T Mikosch (Copenhagen), D Nualart (Barcelona), F Zkan (Freiburg), J Picard (Clermont-Ferrand), N Privault (La Rochelle), P Protter (Cornell), J Rosinski (Knoxville), G Samorodnitsky (Cornell), K I Sato (Nagoya), R Schilling (Brighton), N Shephard (Oxford), M Taqqu (Boston), W Woyczynski (Cleveland) and M Yor (Paris).
For information about this meeting, see www.proba.jussieu.fr/seminaires/Annonce.html
ICASP9: 9th International Conference on
Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering: 6–9 July 2003
This conference will be held in Berkeley, California, USA, 6–9 July 2003.
For details see icasp9.berkeley.edu/.
Overview. The ISIPTA meetings are among the primary international forums to present and discuss new results on the theory and applications of imprecise probabilities. Imprecise probability has a wide scope, being a generic term for the many mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be incomplete.
Themes. Although the third symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised: inference, algorithms and computational complexity, and applications.
Location. ISIPTA '03 will be held at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Important Dates.
Program Board. Jean-Marc Bernard (Université Paris 5); Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University); and Marco Zaffalon (IDSIA, Switzerland).
Steering Committee. Gert de Cooman (Universiteit Gent, Belgium); and Serafin Moral (Universidad de Granada, Spain).
Contact. Marco Zaffalon, e-mail zaffalon@idsia.ch
, tel +41 91 610 8665, fax +41 91 610 8661.
The International Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health will be held 16–18 July 2003, on the campus of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Doug Nychka and Louise Ryan will give the opening and closing addresses, respectively, and special invited sessions will be arranged by Jim Zidek, Doug Nychka, Noel Cressie, Louise Ryan, Cliff Spiegelman, Michael Stein, Dave Holland, Jorge Mateu and Peter Guttorp. Montserrat Fuentes (North Carolina State University) will chair the Scientific Committee, and Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga (ISI-Spain) will chair the Local Arrangements Committee. Selected papers will be published in a special journal issue of Environmetrics. The proceedings for the conference will be also published. The conference sponsors are The International Environmetrics Society; the Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science at the University of Chicago; the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment; the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); the US Environmental Protection Agency; and the National Center for Health and Statistics (NCHS): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The conference web address is isi-eh.usc.es/.
This is a program of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Due to its broad range of application, Stein's method has become particularly important, not only in the future development of probability theory, but also in a wide range of other fields, some theoretical, some extremely practical. This program aims to re-focus interest on understanding the essence of the method and on the various open problems associated with it. It also seeks to foster collaboration in the many fields of application now being studied. Interactions between those involved with different aspects of the method will be an important ingredient in its further development.
The program will consist of a tutorial on background material (4–8 August 2003), and a workshop at research level (11–15 August 2003), in addition to seminars and informal discussions.
The venue will be the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore.
Registration forms can be found at the www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/stein/
for both the tutorial and the workshop, and should be returned at least one month in advance of the respective events. Registration is free. Membership is not required for participation.
The Organising Committee is co-chaired by Andrew Barbour (University of Zürich), email
adb@amath.unizh.ch , and Louis Chen (National University of Singapore), email
lhychen@ims.nus.edu.sg , from whom further information is available.
This conference will be held at the Hotel do Frade in Angra dos Reis, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3–9 August 2003. See the website
www.impa.br/Conferencias/Spa/
for full details.
The program consists of fifty minute lectures delivered by invited speakers, and twenty minute contributed talks and posters.
The invited speakers are A Bovier (WIAS, Berlin), R Burton (Oregon State University), C Burdzy (University of Washington), P Ferrari (IME/USP, Brazil), A Guionnet (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon), F Den Hollander (EURANDOM, The Netherlands), D Ioffe (Technion, Haifa), J Norris (University of Cambridge), H T Yau (New York University) and O Zeitouni (Technion, Haifa).
Courses will be given by A Guionnet and O Zeitouni.
The chair of the Scientific Committee is Claudio Landim (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro), email
spa@impa.br.
The 12th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS-2003) will be held at the University of Dortmund, Germany, 5–8 August 2003, in the week immediately before the 54th Biennial Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Berlin. This workshop, which will be an ISI satellite meeting, will be hosted by the Department of Statistics at the University of Dortmund and will be co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society.
This conference will be held in Tartu, Estonia, 8–12 July 2003. For details email Tőnu Kollo at kollo@ut.ee .
Full details of this conference, to be held in Berlin, Germany, 13–20 August 2003, can be found at the website www.isi-2003.de/ . A list of Bernoulli Society committee and general meetings to be held at his conference appears elsewhere in this issue of Bernoulli News.
This meeting will be held in Havana, Cuba, 15–19 September 2003. It is organised by Universidad de La Habana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid.
This meeting will be held in Ovronnaz, Switzerland, 21–26 September 2003. For details see stat.www.epfl.ch/eysm03/.
Due to consequences of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, these meetings are being moved from Beijing to Johannesburg, South Africa, 3–7 November 2003. See www.cmis.csiro.au/ties2003/ for updated details.
Due to the recent epidemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong, the local organising committee has decided to postpone the Bernoulli EAPR Conference 2003 to December. The new date is set to be 18–20 December 2003.
The 2003 Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference will be held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. The conference is organised by HKUST under the auspices of the EAPR Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
Keynote speakers include David Aldous, Friedrich Götze, Zhi-ming Ma, Kei Takeuchi, Wing Hung Wong and C F Jeff Wu. Albert Lo chairs the Program Committee.
Authors are now invited to submit contributed papers through email to eapr2003@ust.hk
in either LaTeX or Microsoft Word formats.
For registration and hotel information, please visit the EAPR conference website
www.bm.ust.hk/~eapr2003/.
IX CLAPEM, the main event of the Bernoulli Society’s Latin American Chapter, will take place in Uruguay on 22–26 March 2004. The Scientific Committee is chaired by Evarist Gine (USA). Ernesto Mordecki is chair of the Local Organising Committee and Andrea Rivero is its secretary. For more information, please contact lpe@fing.edu.uy .
This International Conference is being organised to celebrate the occasion of Professor Barry C Arnold turning 65. It will be held in Santander, Spain, 16–18 June 2004. The areas of order statistics, distribution theory and inference, in which Barry Arnold has made fundamental and pioneering contributions, will be the primary areas of focus at this conference. For further details, please contact N Balakrishnan
( bala@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
), Enrique Castillo ( castie@unican.es ), or Jose-Maria Sarabia
( sarabiaj@unican.es ).
International Biometric Conference 2004 and
2004 Australian Statistical Conference: 11–16 July 2004
The International Biometric Conference 2004 and the 2004 Australian Statistical Conference will be held in parallel in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 11–16 July 2004. See
www.ozaccom.com.au/ibc2004/ or email
cairns2004@ozaccom.com.au for further information.
This conference will be held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 14–18 July 2004, and is being organised by Anthony Davison (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Yadolah Dodge (Neuchâtel) and Nanny Wermuth (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz).
Speakers include O Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), S Darby (Oxford), D Firth (Oxford), P Hall (Canberra), V Isham (University College, London), P McCullagh (Chicago), N Reid (Toronto), I Rodríguez-Iturbe (Princeton), A Rotnitzky (Harvard), N Shephard (Oxford), N Wermuth (Mainz) and S Zeger (Johns Hopkins).
Those wishing to present papers are asked to submit an abstract in English (limited to one typed page) to the conference organisers, no later than 30 September 2003.
Sir David Cox, DSc, FRS, FBA
For further details, contact Yadolah Dodge at yadolah.dodge@unine.ch
or see the website www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/Welcome.html
.
This conference will be held in Montréal, Canada, 19–24 July 2004. For details see www.stanford.edu/group/stochnetconf/ .
The 2004 Bernoulli Society World Congress, and IMS Annual Meeting, will be held in Barcelona, Spain, 26–31 July 2004. The location will be the historic building of the University of Barcelona, located in downtown Barcelona. Barcelona represents a change of venue from the originally suggested site of Jerusalem. Wilfrid Kendall is the Chair of the Scientific Committee and David Nualart is the Chair of the Organising Committee. See www.imub.ub.es/events/wc2004/ or email wc2004@imub.ub.es .
We look forward to welcome you to Oslo!
This is the first European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) following the new ideas of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The renewed EMS wants to be a central international event in all areas of statistics and probability, including methodological statistics, applied and computational statistics, probability theory, stochastic processes and applied probability.
The scientific program will be interesting and broad, making the conference appealing for scientists, graduate and postgraduate students in all these areas. The scientific program will be broader than in past EMS, with more space for important applications of our disciplines. The program will also aim at cross-fertilisation between the various areas, through special invited speakers and sessions which bridge between theory and practice, inference and stochastic models. We hope to see an increase in terms of participation and contributed talks.
We encourage students and young statisticians to join the meeting in Oslo. In order to make this possible we will be offering accommodation near campus (with good standards) at a very good price, for those, students or otherwise, who do not wish to stay in a more conventional hotel. We currently estimate the on-campus accommodation to cost circa EUR 200 for the whole period. (In fact, because of local rules, the rent will be for two full weeks. We are currently working on the possibility to organise a training event during the week preceding the conference, for those who would be interested.) Of course we will offer traditional hotel accommodation, too. In summary, we aim to organise a conference for each budget.
This is the 25th EMS and we are planning to mark this round number by looking back into the history of the EMS. We wish to collect and publish historical material from the whole series of the EMS. Do you have interesting material, especially from the first 15 EMS meetings? Would you be interested in joining a small group planning this activity? Please email us at
frigessi@nr.no if so.
Expected arrival of participants is Saturday, 23 July 2005. The meeting starts on Sunday, 24 July 2005, in the morning, because we want to make full use of over-the-weekend low airfares. The conference will close in the afternoon of Thursday, 28 July 2005. For us "low cost" is an important issue. The reason why the conference is in July, and not in August as is the tradition, is to use the campus facilities in full in absence of regular classes, and to profit from the long warm summer days of July. The Scandinavian summer is a unique experience!
The Scientific Program committee is chaired by Aad van der Vaart (Free University Amsterdam, and Eurandom) and the Local Organising Committee includes Arnoldo Frigessi (Norwegian Computing Centre, and University of Oslo), chair, and Nils L Hjort (Oslo), deputy.
For more information see the web page www.ems2005.no/
, where you can also enter your name to receive the first bulletin.