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Created: 13 December 2023

The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2024 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.

The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory.  Nominees should normally be within 10 (calendar) years from getting their PhD to the prize year with suitable adjustments to be made for career breaks post-PhD (for example, maternity/paternity leave or military service).

The awardee will be invited to submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Article, and will also be invited to present the Doeblin Prize Lecture at a Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

To nominate a candidate, please provide the following documents:

1. A comprehensive two-page Curriculum Vitae (CV) highlighting the nominee's academic background, professional experience, and honors/awards received.
2. A list of publications.
3. A document of at most five pages describing the nominee's work and placing it in context for importance. This document should outline the key mathematical contributions, their significance, and their impact on their respective field(s).
4. Between two and four letters of recommendation.

More information about the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize and past awardees can be found at https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes?id=158

Each nomination should be sent by April 12, 2024.

Nominations should be communicated to the Award Committee by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2024.

Wolfgang Doeblin Prize 2024 Awarded to Giuseppe Cannizzaro. 

Congratulations to the winner!  We wish continued success in your future ventures.

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Created: 05 December 2023

We cordially invite you to the 42nd edition of the Finnish Summer School on Probability and Statistics, which will take place on May 27–31, 2024, at Lammi Biological Research Station of the University of Helsinki. 

Invited lecturers are:

- Jüri Lember  (University of Tartu),

- Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes),

- Josep Vives (Universitat de Barcelona).

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 welcome too.

The registration will be open in spring 2024.

For registering and further information go to the summer school website

https://fdnss.fi/42nd-finnish-summer-school-on-probability-and-statistics/

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Created: 23 November 2023

Winner of the David G. Kendall Award for Young Researchers announced

The BS and RSS is pleased to announce this years’ winner of the David G. Kendall Award for Young Researchers: congratulations to Qiyang Han!

The biannual award is presented  jointly by the RSS and the Bernoulli Society to a young researcher that has made a significant contribution to the alternating fields of mathematical statistics or probability theory. David G. Kendall (1918–2007) was the first president of the Bernoulli Society and recipient of the RSS Guy Medal in Silver (1955) and in Gold (1981).

This year, the award recognises Rutgers University Assistant Professor Qiyang Han for his outstanding contributions to, among other things, empirical process theory, nonparametric inference under shape constraints and asymptotics for multivariate models.

Qiyang  receives a prize of 2,000 euros and, as this year’s award is being given for contributions to mathematical statistics, is also invited to give the Kendall Lecture at the 2024 RSS Annual International Conference.  

Read here for more about the award and here about the RSS.

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Created: 07 November 2023

Eva Loecherbach will replace the current editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications - Matthias Loewe, and her term will commence at the end of March 2024. 

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Created: 18 October 2023

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Created: 17 October 2023

2024 IAOS Mexico Conference

The Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) invite to the 19th IAOS Conference and the 4th ISI Regional Statistical Conference, to be held jointly as the IAOS-ISI 2024 conference in Mexico . Join us in Mexico May 15-17, 2024.

More details on the website:  IAOS Mexico

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Created: 06 October 2023

Autumn school on hypergraphs - online event

The Bernoulli Society Committee on Statistical Network Science is excited to offer a half-day autumn school on hypergraphs, to take place online on October 12, 2023, from 11 am - 3 pm UTC (or 12 noon - 4 pm UK time).

The aim of this event is to provide an introduction to the area of hypergraphs, from three different angles: probability and statistics, data science, and physics. The lectures include an elementary introduction to the area and take around 1 hour each, with questions.

 Agenda: 

11:00 welcome

11:15 Timoteo Carletti (Namur) : Physics and hypergraphs

12:15 break

12:30 Catherine Matias (CNRS): Statistical modeling of higher order interactions

13:30 break

13:45 Michael Schaub (Aachen): Signal processing on higher-order networks

14:45 discussion and closing remarks.

The meeting will be held via zoom. 

A recording of the meeting is available at the link:

https://github.com/BS-SNS/Public/blob/main/school/README.md 

All welcome

Vlado Batagelj, Sarika Jalan, Sofia Olhede, and Gesine Reinert (the organiser team)

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Created: 02 August 2023

Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research, New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics, and/or excellence in research that links developments in a substantive field to new advances in statistics. The Prize Committee consisted of Gesine Reinert (Chair), Adrian Röllin and Susan Murphy. During the 63th ISI WSC in Ottawa, on July 20th, 2023, Lester Mackey gave a lecture entitled Advances in Distribution Compression.

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Created: 02 August 2023

1. The transfer of the Bernoulli Book

During the General Assembly on July 18th, 2023, Adam Jakubowski formally handed over the presidency. The Bernoulli Book, symbolizing the presidency, was presented to Victor Panaretos, who officially assumed the position of president of Bernoulli Society for the years 2023–2025.

2. A Lecture on History of Probability Theory

At the Bernoulli Society Presidents Invited Session on July 19th, 2023, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder, Norway)  presented Dispute and Agreement between Two Pioneers of Modern Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Andrey Kolmogorov and Richard Von Mises in 1932.

3.  Bernoulli Journal Lecture

On July 18th, 2023, Alexandra Carpentier (University of Potsdam, Germany) delivered via zoom a lecture entitled Tight concentration inequalities for weakly dependent fields, and applications to the mixing bandit problem.

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Created: 11 April 2023

The Nomination Committee, chaired by the President-Elect Victor Panaretos, sent their report to the Scientific Secretary in September 2022 with the following list of candidates:

• President-Elect: Nancy Reid (University of Toronto, Canada), commencing in August 2025 in succession to the next President Victor Panaretos.

Six ordinary members of the Council for a four-year term from August 2023 to July 2027:

• David Croydon (University of Kyoto, Japan)
• Holger Dette (University of Bochum, Germany)
• Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Giovanni Peccatti (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
• Maria-Eulalia Vares (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Andrew Wood (Australian National University, Australia)

The Scientific Secretary Song Xi Chen submitted the report of the Nomination Committee to the ordinary members of the Council for additional suggestions. No further nominations were made. The Executive Committee and the Council approved the above nominations in October 2022. According to Section 9 of the Statutes, these candidates are declared elected without vote, pending final approval at the next General Assembly in July 2023.