2021: Ewain Gwynne, University of Chicago who delivered the Kendall Lecture during the RSS International Conference 2022, September 12-15, 2022 in Aberdeen.
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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs Issue 41 June 2020
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GENERAL NEWS
EVENTS
RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
We are excited to announce a new position in the Publicity Committee: the Bernoulli Society took an important step in the context of this new worldwide reality and decided to create the position of Virtual Event Coordinator. Our colleague Leif Döring (Uni Mannheim) has been chosen to take this role. Welcome!
***One World Probability Project
The One World Probability project https://www.owprobability.org/ is an online platform for research seminars, workshops and schools in probability theory. Started during the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020, the project intends to bring together researchers from all over the world in a virtual and inclusive environment. The project is a community wide initiative supported by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It runs the regular online One World Probability Seminar, and supports online workshops and schools.
***Schramm Lectures at BS-IMS-WC 2021 and SPA 2022
Omer Angel (U British Columbia) is going to give the Schramm Lecture at the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Seoul, July 19-23, 2021. Furthermore, Louigi Addario-Berry (Mc Gill U) will give the Schramm Lecture at the 42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) in Wuhan, China, June 27 – July 1, 2022.
***2020 Carver Medal awarded to Lynne Billard
Lynne Billard, Professor at the University of Georgia and Treasurer of the Bernoulli Society from 2013-2019, has been named the 2020 IMS Carver Medalist. Lynne Billard receives the award for her outstanding service to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows; for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987-90) that culminated in IMS forging a partnership with the Bernoulli Society that includes co-hosting the biannual World Congress; and for her advocacy of the inclusion of women and young researchers on the scientific programs of IMS sponsored meetings.
***ISI Short Course Committee for WSC 2021
In the context of the World Statistics Congress 2021 in the Hague, Netherlands, ISI sponsors short courses that promote continuing professional development and training capacity. Ingrid van Keilegom (KU Leuven) has been approved as the Bernoulli Society representative in the ISI Short Course Committee.
Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
***Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020 August 17 - 21, 2020
The Bernoulli Society jointly with IMS plans a virtual symposium during the week of August 17-21, 2020 (of the postponed Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Seoul). Watch out for the special announcement soon!
***Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (BS-IMS-WC)
The congress is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Held every four years, the Congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes. The latest scientific developments in all of these fields are showcased. It will be held at the Seoul National University.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.
The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.
***International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2020)
The conference has been postponed to 2021 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi's spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
***International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)
The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.
The conference brings together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and its Applications. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh. Short courses will be held on 26-27 June 2021.
***63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 (ISI-WSC)
The congress series is organized by the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Bernoulli Society is participating in the series as an association of ISI. It brings together statisticians and data scientists from academia, health sector and business, junior and senior professionals, in an inviting environment.
***42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
June 27 - July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.
[POSTPONED] ***23rd Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics
Since 1991, the annual conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics brings together academics and students from Romania and abroad to discuss recent developments in research in probability theory and mathematical statistics. This year, the conference will be held at UPT (Politehnica University of Timisoara).
[POSTPONED] ***40th Finnish Summer School on Probability and Statistics
The mission of this traditional summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. Advanced MSc students, fresh postdocs and everyone in the research and applied field are also encouraged to apply.
[POSTPONED]***XXIV Brazilian School of Probability
The EBP is an international event which has been running since 1997. From its start it has been a meeting point for high level researchers and an excellent opportunity for young students to learn about different aspects of probability theory from world leading experts.
The event has been canceled and possibly rescheduled for July / August 2021.
Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
* Recent issues of official publications of the Bernoulli Society
Have a look at http://goo.gl/7EP2cZ for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.
Invitation to Propose Invited Sessions for WSC 2021
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The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will be held 11-16 July as a virtual conference. The WSC theme “Statistics and Data Science for a Better World” highlights the developments and contributions of statistics and data science in various domains of application that impact all aspects of life. The Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC), Nalini Ravishanker, invites the statistical community to submit proposals for Invited Paper Sessions (IPS). Please use the Submission System.
The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will host talks and presentations on a wide variety of topics, with the overall goal of presenting a balanced programme that provides a sense of the current state and future direction of statistics, data science and their applications. The programme will span sectors of practice including academia, business, industry, government and official statistics along with the breadth of ISI and Associations affiliated with ISI. Topics include but are not limited to official statistics, survey statistics, environmental statistics, business and industrial applications of statistics, mathematical statistics, probability, statistics and data science education, statistical literacy and statistical computing and data visualization.
Accepted Invited Sessions will be held either live-streamed or pre-recorded, details will be given later. The pre-recorded sessions will have a time to have live interactions with attendees. The SPC will determine which IPS will be offered in which modality, but all submissions should be willing to do either.
Live-streamed
Real-time (synchronous) sessions will be scheduled each day. This time block is necessarily limited, given the desire to reach out to all time zones. It will last two and a half hours from 14:00 to 16:30 Central European Summer Time. The relevant times are:
Country
Start
End
West Coast USA
05:00
07:30
The Netherlands
14:00
16:30
Japan
21:00
23:30
Australia (Sydney)
22:00
00:30
New Zealand
00:00
02:30
Pre-recorded
Asynchronous, pre-recorded sessions will be released each day during the conference. Opportunities to interact with presenters either live or via chat will be available.
Invited Paper Sessions
IPS proposals must meet the following requirements and include the following information:
Session Title - description
Connection to ISI, Associations or Committees
Organiser – name, affiliation, contact information
Session Chair – name, affiliation, contact information
For each speaker,
Name, affiliation, contact information
Title of talk (if appropriate – not needed for panel)
Abstract
The best proposals will include participants that reflect the diversity of ISI including age, gender and country/region. Strong proposals will have speakers confirming their willingness to participate should the programme be accepted. Note that speakers can only speak in one session.
When submitting a proposal, you should indicate to which of the ISI Associations your session is related:
If you specify more than one Association, choose a primary one and your proposal will be first reviewed by that Association under the guidance of its representative on theSPC.
If you think that your proposal does not relate to any ISI Association, you may choose ISI as the primaryassociation.
Proposals will be reviewed by the SPC on a competitivebasis.
Just a quick reminder: each proposal should include a brief description and justification for the proposed session and a list of presenters and discussants who have agreed to participate. The selection criteria will take into account scientific quality, impact, and overall diversity.
IPS Selection Criteria
The SPC will select IPS to ensure that the WSC programme:
is interesting, of high quality, with sessions that emphasize innovative ideas, approaches and/or applications to problems ofimportance;
reflects a balance of Organisers / Presenters / Discussants from around theworld and a diversity of participants with respect to age, gender and statisticalinterests.
Invited Papers historically have been and will continue to be a key feature of a successful WSC. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
General enquiries about the Scientific Programme should be directed to Nalini Ravishanker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..