The Schramm Lecture is an annual, joint IMS-Bernoulli Society lecture. The Schramm lecture will be given at SPA meetings in odd years, at IMS stand-alone annual meetings in even years not divisible by 4, and at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics in years divisible by 4.

The Doob lecture is sponsored by the Illinois Journal of Mathematics; selected by the Scientific Committee for the SPA meeting, except when awarded at the joint IMS-BS World Congress, when the speaker is selected by the joint IMS-BS Doob/Schramm Lecture Committee. 

A joint IMS-Bernoulli Society committee will select these lecturers. This committee will be chosen by the Presidents of the IMS and the Bernoulli Society, in consultation, according to the following guidelines.

1. The selection committee will normally have as regular members, two IMS representatives and two Bernoulli Society representatives. In years when lecturers are to be chosen for the World Congress, the chair of the scientific program committee for the Congress will serve as an ex-officio member of the committee.
   
   In choosing representatives: The Bernoulli Society President may consider chairs of prior SPA scientific program committees or CCSP for BS representatives. The IMS President may consider members of its Special Lectures committee for its representatives. Regular committee members may serve for one to three years, but will normally be appointed for two years.
   
   
2. Each year a new chair will be appointed from the membership of the committee. For the lectures in odd years this will be chosen by the Bernoulli Society President, and for lectures in even years it will be chosen by the IMS President. However, the Presidents of both societies will consult with one another about the selection before it is made. Apart from the first year of selection, the committee should be in place by January 1 and should preferably begin its work by March 1, two years in advance of the meeting for which a speaker is to be chosen.
   
   
3. Once the committee has settled on the nominee for a lecturer, the name of the nominee should be transmitted in confidence to the Presidents of the Bernoulli Society and the IMS for final approval. Preferably this would be done by May 15.
   
   
4. Once a nominee has been approved, a joint letter from the Presidents of the IMS and the Bernoulli Society will be transmitted to the chosen nominee, inviting them to deliver the lecture.

Here is a list of recent Doob Lecturers:

• Alessandra Faggionato (Italy) 2025
• Pablo Augusto Ferrai (Buenos Aires) (2024) *IMS/BS Doob Lecturer at the World Statistics Congress
• Rene Carmona (Princeton) (2023)
• Hao Wu (Tsinghua) (2022)
• Nicolas Curien (2020, delivered in 2021) *IMS/BS Doob Lecturer at the World Statistics Congress
• Jeremy Quastel (2019)
• Jeffrey Steif (2018)
• Vladimir Bogachev (2017)
• Scott Sheffield (2016) *IMS/BS Doob Lecturer at the World Statistics Congress
• Terence Tao (2015)
• Neil O’Connell (2013)
• Yves Le Jan (2012) *IMS/BS Doob Lecturer at the World Statistics Congress
• Ruth Williams (2011)
• Gregory Lawler (2010)
• Ed Perkins (2009)
• Marc Yor (2007)

Here is a list of recent Schramm lecturers.

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Last Updated: Monday, 22 June 2026 06:36