Willem van Zwet Medal for special service to the Bernoulli Society
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This biennial Bernoulli Society Medal aims to recognise special service to the Bernoulli Society. The Medal is in honour of Willem van Zwet, who served Bernoulli Society and its aims in many special ways. Nominees should have records of sustained and distinguished service to the Society.
Description
Nomination can be made of any member of Bernoulli Society, who has not previously been elected President.
Nominations should be communicated by email to the chair of the Willem van Zwet Medal Committee by the declared deadline (see below), and should be signed by two members of the Bernoulli Society. They must include the name, affiliation, and brief curriculum vitae of the nominee, and a statement of no more than 1000 words summarising the case for nomination.
At most one award is made every two years. The medal will be awarded at a ceremony during the next World Congress. The recommendation will be based on sustained excellent service to further the aims of the Bernoulli Society. Excellence in research will not be taken into account, as this is recognised by other Bernoulli Society awards.
Previous winners
Professor Maria Eulalia Vares in 2021
Professor Thomas Mikosch in 2023
The Willem van Zwet Medal Committee
The committee has three members, at least one being a past president who will act as chair, each member serving a term of up to five years. New committee members and chair are proposed by the current and incoming Bernoulli Society Presidents after consultation with the Executive Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
Present members of the committee:
(from Jan 2023) Victor Perez Abreu (chair), CIMAT, Mexico;
(from Jan 2021) Florencia Leonardi, University of São Paulo, Brazil;
(from Jan 2021) Byeong U. Park, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea.
Past members of the committee:
(Jan 2021-Dec 2022) Wilfrid S. Kendall (chair), University of Warwick, UK
About Willem van Zwet
This medal is inspired by the dedicated service of Willem van Zwet, who passed away on July 2, 2020. Willem was a major figure for Bernoulli Society and for our community as a whole. In particular, in the decade commencing 1970, he was among the founding fathers of the Bernoulli Society. He served as President of Bernoulli Society (1987-1989) and as Editor in Chief of the Bernoulli Journal (2000-2003). He was the driving force behind the creation of Eurandom, the European Institute for Stochastics in Eindhoven, serving as Eurandom’s founding director (1997-2000). The medal also honours his significant and unceasing support of statisticians behind the iron curtain, which had a major impact there and earned him an honorary doctorate from Charles University. Willem van Zwet's life is an inspiration for future generations of Bernoulli members.
Nominations
The deadline for nominations was noon UTC, Monday 22 July 2024.
Publicity Committee
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The committee manages all issues related to publicity and the dissemination of information and news to members of the Bernoulli Society and beyond. It coordinates the publication of the Bernoulli E-Briefs electronic newsletter, and of the Society's print newsletter, Bernoulli News. It also manages the Society's webpage and social media presence. The chairman is ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Committee Members
Alessia Caponera, e-Briefs Editor (Italy, until June 2025)
Bojana Milošević, Bernoulli News Editor (Serbia, until June 2027)
Corina Constantinescu, Chair (United Kingdom, until December 2025)
Past Prize Recipients
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2015: Judith Rousseau (CREST–ENSAE, Université Paris Dauphine), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2015, Rio de Janeiro.
2017: Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2017, Marrakesh.
2019: Mathias Drton (University of Washington, Technische Universität München), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019, Kuala Lumpur.
2021: Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zürich), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2021, The Hague (virtual).
2023: Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England, Stanford University), awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2023, Ottawa.
2025: Po-Ling Loh - DPMMS - University of Cambridge
Publicity Committee
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Publicity Committee
The committee manages all issues related to publicity and the dissemination of information and news to members of the Bernoulli Society and beyond. It coordinates the publication of the Bernoulli E-Briefs electronic newsletter, and of the Society's print newsletter, Bernoulli News. It also manages the Society's webpage and social media presence. The chairman is ex-officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Committee Members
Carlos Amendola, E-Briefs Editor (Germany, until July 2021)
Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Web Editor (USA, until June 2021)
Corina Constantinescu, Twitter Editor (UK, until June 2022)
Manuele Leonelli, Bernoulli News Editor (UK, until June 2023)
Victor Panaretos, Chair (Switzerland, until Feb 2020)
Past meetings
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Past meetings sponsored by the Bernoulli Society:
Extreme Value Analysis (EVA 2023) in Milan, Italy, June 26-July 1, 2023. conference website.
Frontier Probability Days (FPD’20), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 3-5, 2021, conference website.
(online) 7th One World Webinar by YoungStats: Novel Algebraic Approaches to Maximum Likelihood Estimation, November 15, 2021. conference website.
(online) Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020, August 24-28, 2020. conference website.
Semstat Statistical Network Science, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, March 6-10 2017, conference website.
Perspectives of Actuarial Risks in Talks of Young Researchers, Ascona, Switzerland, January 8-13 2017, conference website.
4th IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting in Hong Kong, June 27-30 2016, conference website.
Fractality and Fractionality, Leiden, the Netherlands, May 17-20 2016, conference website.
XX Brazilian School of Probability in São Carlos, Brazil, July 4-9 2016, conference website.
Frontier Probablity Days 2016, Salt Lake City, May 09-11, 2016, conference website.
9th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2016 in Toronto, Canada, July 11-15, conference website. Pre-meeting for young researchers: July 7-8, 2016.
UK Easter Probability Meeting 2016, Lancaster, UK, April 4-8 2016, conference website.
30th European Meeting of Statisticians in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 6-10 July 2015.
60th ISI World Statistics Congress in Rio the Janeiro, Brazil, July 26-31 2015, conference website.
Extreme Value Analysis, Ann Arbor, USA, June 15-19, 2015, conference website.
19th European Young Statisticians Meeting 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic, August 31- September 4, conference website.
Methodological advances in Statistics related to Big Data, Castro Urdiales, Spain, June 8-12, 2015, conference website.
Algebraic Statistics, University of Genoa, Italy, June 8-11, 2015, conference website
Limit Theorems in Probability, Imperial College London, UK, March 23-26, 2015, conference website.
Perspectives on Actuarial Risks in Talks of Young Researchers 2015, University of Liverpool, UK, January 11-16, 2015, conference website.
XVIII Brazilian School of Probability 2014 in Mambucaba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 3-9.
XIII CLAPEM 2014 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, September 22-26, conference website.
UK Probability Meeting 2014, Imperial College London, UK, September 15-19, 2014, conference website.
18th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Osijek, Croatia, August 26-30 2013, conference website.
XVII Brazilian School of Probability 2013 in Mambucaba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 4-10, conference website.
Perspectives on Actuarial Risks in Talks of Young Researchers 2013, Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland, January 27- February 1, 2013, conference website.
XVI Brazilian School of Probability 2012 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, August 6-11, conference website.
7th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Sydney, Australia, June 19-22, 2012, conference website.
8th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-14, conference website, 750 participants.
1st Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics, Chalkidiki, Greece, June 15-19, 2012, conference website.
Long-Range Dependence, Self-Similarity and Heavy Tails, International Conference in Honor of Professor Murad S. Taqqu, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, April 19-21, 2012, conference website.
XII CLAPEM 2012 in Valparaiso - Viña del Mar, Chile, March 26-30, conference website.
8th Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Veracruz, Mexico, June 26-30, 2011, conference website.
Young European Probabilists Workshop (YEP), EURANDOM, The Netherlands, March 14-18, 2011, conference website.
ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India, August 13-17, 2010, conference website.
