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The Bernoulli Society has a new logo:
As you can see, the logo is a redesigned version of our traditional logo derived from the motto to be found on the epitaph of Jakob Bernoulli in Basel (see http://www.w-volk.de/museum/grave45.htm). Additionally, the text “Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability” is now an integral part of our logo. Apart from the grayscale version depicted on the left, there is also a colored and a black and white version available.
High-quality graphics files of the new logo in several different formats are available on request from any of the Bernoulli officers.
The Executive Committee and Council of the Bernoulli Society approved a special issue of the Bernoulli Journal for the year 2013 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of the Ars Conjectandi by Jacob Bernoulli. The guest editors will be Richard Davis and Thomas Mikosch. It will consist of a series of invited papers that will provide a glimpse at future directions in probability and statistics from new application areas, to the development of new models, to the emerging interfaces between statistics and probability with other sciences, as well as essays on the future of probability and mathematical statistics. It will be in addition to the four numbers of the annual volume and will have electronic open access to everybody.
Victor Pérez-Abreu, President
A footnote has been added to the web page (http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/10b/bn_01.html) publication of the talk on the future of the Bernoulli Society delivered at the SPA conference in Osaka, September 2010, by president-elect Ed Waymire. In particular, it is to be noted that “ISI was founded in 1885, but the international meetings organized by the ISI started in 1887. Therefore this anniversary (2010) is in fact the celebration of 125 years of ISI Sessions.” This corrects the mention of 2013 as the 125th anniversary of ISI, and applies to the publication of the speech in the last issue (Vol. 17(2), 2010) of Bernoulli News as well. President-elect Ed Waymire thanks ISI Webmaster Hans Lucas for catching this error.
The Council of the Bernoulli Society approved the candidates for President-Elect 2011-2013 and ordinary Council members for 2011-2015 presented by the Nominating Committee. The Council provided no additional candidates. Since there is only one candidate for an office, according to the Statutes, the candidates shall be declared elected in the General Assembly during the Dublin ISI World Statistics Congress in August 2011.
President-Elect: Wilfrid Kendall, Department of Statistics, Warwick
University.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/kendall/
New Council members from 2011 are the following:
The next official Nominating Committee will be proposed at this General Assembly.
Nakahiro Yoshida, Scientific Secretary