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NewsFurther news and details on some of the information below can be found in: Please see also the list of upcoming conferences and meetings. Announcements and News Call for Nominations Sought for 2020 COPSS Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies invites nominations for
The deadline for nominations of all three awards is December 15, 2019. The call for nominations can be found at https://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/nominations Call for Nominations for the 2020 Doeblin Prize
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2020 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. 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 in the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (to be held in Seoul National University, South Korea, on August 17-21, 2020), or at a later Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications. More information about the Wolfgang Doeblin prize and past awardees can be viewed at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/prizes/ Each nomination should offer a brief but adequate case of support and should be sent by December 30, 2019, to the chair of the prize committee at the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject heading: Doeblin Prize 2020. Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2020
The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications to the New Researcher Award 2020. Each awardee shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2020, and will receive a funding up to 1000€ to offset travel and other expenses. Bernoulli News will publish their pictures and a paragraph about their work. Eligible candidates are active researchers in Probability Theory who obtained the PhD degree on or after Jan 1st 2014 and who are regular members of the Bernoulli Society. Female candidates get 1 extra year for each child born since receiving the PhD. Candidates should apply through the web form https://goo.gl/forms/v8zDJaFUKj5IGEG73 and send the required documents to the e-mail address indicated there. Deadline: April 10th, 2019
Call for Interest in Hosting the 11th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (BS-IMS-WC) in 2024
Preliminary bids / expressions of interest should be emailed to the IMS and Bernoulli society presidents (Xiao-Li Meng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Susan Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and cc'ed to the BS president-elect ( Claudia Klüppelberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). The due date for bids is June 29, 2019. A preliminary bid should specify names and affiliations of academics who have provisionally agreed to serve on the Local Organizing Committee. It is important that this team contains sufficiently many energetic people to cover fully the oversight of this big event, but in particular the team should also include a couple of senior academics in probability and statistics who have strong research records and international profiles, and who are prepared to commit to ensure the proposed congress will successfully add great distinction to their institution. The Local Organizing Committee should be diverse with all individuals playing significant roles. In many cases the Local Organizing Committee will obtain the assistance from conference organizing professionals. It is helpful if preliminary bids contain information about the following: 1: The proposed site for the congress. It is especially important to be clear about this if the proposed Local Organizing Committee involves names from across the immediate local region! 2: A range of proposed dates (typically summer in northern hemisphere). The selection of this range should involve explicit consideration of various competing meetings and conferences around the world -- to the extent that details are known at this advanced stage of planning. 3: Consideration of likely attendance numbers: for this, and for much other relevant data, the Bernoulli-IMS World Congress history page of the Bernoulli Society will be very helpful; it will become clear that numbers can vary to some extent with congress location. 4: Meeting facilities: there needs to be access to a large auditorium potentially able to accommodate 700 attendees, in addition to an adequate supply of breakout rooms for smaller sessions, and good supply of space for discussions over tea/coffee. 5: Accommodation: there needs to be a good supply of reasonably priced local accommodation. It is particularly helpful if some very cheap and basic accommodation is available for (for example) younger colleagues. 7: It is useful to supply cost estimates on venue rent, catering twice daily coffee breaks, office staff support, for a range of attendance from 500 to 700 participants. 8: Based on the previous item, it is helpful to estimate a range of potential registration fees. As a very rough guide, registration fees should be loosely in line for example with those charged for the 2019 European Meetings of Statisticians and the 2018 IMS meeting. Overall cost is a particularly sensitive issue to the IMS and Bernoulli Society members, who include both young academics with very limited access to research funds, and distinguished academics from developing world countries who also find it a great challenge to secure sufficient funding to attend meetings. Neither IMS nor Bernoulli Society are in a position to provide substantial financial support, though both organizations organize special invited lectures for the Congress, thus ensuring the presence of very high-visibility speakers for whom the relevant society will pay registration, accommodation and transport. Announcing the 2019 Itô Prize winners
Congratulations to Professor Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Professor Masatoshi Fukushima (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), for their paper: Stochastic Komatsu-Loewner evolution and BMD domain constant The 2019 winning article was chosen by a selection committee consisting of senior members of the probability community and representing wide geographical and specialization diversity. The award will be presented at the 41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2019) in Evanston, Illinois - 8 to 12 July 2019 where the authors will give a plenary talk. The award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of US$5000. The paper is freely available to access until the end of 2019 via ScienceDirect. 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress (ISI-WSC) Call for Proposals
The Bernoulli Society (BS) invites submissions of proposals for Special Topic Sessions (STS) at the 62nd ISI-WSC, to be held from 18 to 23 August 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Proposals can be submitted using the electronic submission system on the ISI-WSC website http://www.isi2019.org/guidelines-for-submission-system/. To ensure full consideration, please submit your STS proposals by 15 August 2018. Each proposal should include: (1) a paragraph describing and justifying the proposed session; (2) a list of speakers and discussants that have agreed to participate; (3) an organizer, as well as a potential replacement in case that organizer declines. Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2019
The New Researcher Award is for Bernoulli Society members who are active researchers of mathematical statistics. The main goal of this award is to recognize innovative research by new researchers. The applicants for this award were asked to submit a 3-page synopsis of their presentation, along with their CV by February 28, 2018. The response to this award call was fabulous - 34 applications were submitted many of which were very strong applications making the selection procedure extremely challenging. After evaluating each CV and synopsis, the award committee has chosen the following new researchers for the award: Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin-Madison Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan Lingzhou Xue, Pennsylvania State University Each of the awardees will deliver a 30-minute talk at the 62nd ISI-WSC to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during August 18 - 23, 2019, and will receive funding from Bernoulli Society towards travel and other expenses. Apart from the above awardees, Bernoulli Society is awarding honourable mentions to the following researchers: Quentin Berthet, University of Cambridge Sebastian Engelke, University of Geneva Subhabrata Sen, Microsoft Research New England and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bernoulli Society would like to congratulate the above researchers and thank each and every applicant for their interest in the award. Parthanil Roy, Bernoulli Youth Representative Leonardo T. Rolla, Membership Secretary Call for Nominations for the Newbold Prize
The Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the Ethel Newbold Prize. The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years, next time in spring 2019. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to the gender of the recipient. The Ethel Newbold Prize is generously supported by Wiley. The Ethel Newbold Prize is to be awarded to an outstanding statistical scientist 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 will be awarded at a following Bernoulli-IMS World Congress, Bernoulli-sponsored major conference, or ISI World Statistics Congress. The awardee will also be invited to present a talk at one of these conferences. Deadline for nominations: November 30. https://goo.gl/1D655D For more details click here. 10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in South Korea
The venue and the dates for the 10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (BS-IMS-WC) in Probability and Statistics are now determined. It will be held in Seoul National University, South Korea, on August 17-21, 2020. 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. Previous congresses have been held in Toronto (2016), Istanbul (2012), Singapore (2008), Barcelona (2004), Guanajuato (2000), Vienna (1996), Chapel Hill (1994), Uppsala (1990), and Tashkent (1986). Doeblin Prize 2016
During the 2016 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Toronto, Allan Sly was awarded the Doeblin Prize. The prize is sponsored by Springer. Sara van de Geer as Bernoulli Society President added the following to accompany the awarding of the prize: This prize is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning of his or her mathematical career. The Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes has elected you as the prize winner. You are a very broad young probabilist, with great taste for fundamental problems at the intersection between probability theory, statistics, statistical physics and theoretical computer science. You have worked on topics such as Glauber dynamics for the Ising model, random k-satisfiability, interacting particle systems, the connection between computational complexity and phase transitions. Each of these topics has witnesed fundamental progress due to your efforts. You are 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 Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2017. Then, I hereby hand over the certificate, as well as an official letter of the BS. Congratulations!
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