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BERNOULLI NEWS, Vol 25 No 2 (2018) Vol. 25 (2), November 2018 Published twice per year by the Bernoulli Society ISSN 1360–6727 CONTENTS A VIEW FROM THE PRESIDENT News from the Bernoulli Society p. 2 Snapshots p. 3 Awards and Prizes p. 5 New Executive Members in the Bernoulli Society p. 7 Past Conferences, Dear Members of the Bernoulli Society, Meetings and Workshops A theme of this brief letter is that we, in the Bernoulli society, are very fortunate to have p. 11 beneŮited from extremely dedicated and effective leadership by many individuals. Please join me in thanking these many individuals both for their past as well as their future support! Next Conferences, Meetings and Workshops In December Konstantin Zuev of CalTech University will step down as chair from the and Calendar of Events Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences—C(PS)2. Thanks to Konstantin for his service! This committee will be chaired by Michael Beer of Leibniz Uni- p. 17 versität Hannover and will include a number of new members representing a broad swath of statistical areas important in the physical sciences including stochastic mechanics, stochastic optimization, efŮicient numerical methods for stochastic analysis, stochastic dynamics and control, stochastic sampling, reliability assessment and statistical mod- elling and inference in transportation science. Fortunately, Michael is also a very energetic organizer—please check out the revamped C(PS)2 website. C(PS)2 is actively supporting conferences important to mathematical statisticians and probabilists such as the recently held 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019). Yet another very active member is Siva Athreya of the Indian Statistical Institute, Ban- galore. Siva is the chair of the Joint Program Committee for 10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics, to be held 17th-21st August 2020, in Seoul, South Editor Korea. Siva has organized the Joint Program Committee as well as the committee to se- MIGUEL DE CARVALHO School of Mathematics lect the speakers for the Bernoulli lecture (applications of statistics), Kolmogorov lecture THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH (probability), Levy lecture (sponsored by Elsevier: stochastic processes), Laplace lecture EDINBURGH, UK (statistics) and Tukey lecture (statistics). Please contact Siva or me if you would like to sug- Contact gest names for these lectures! Also please see this newsletter for an article about our new [email protected] Publications Secretary/Chair of Publications Committee (PubCom Chair), Herold Dehling of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Welcome Herold! And thanks so much to Thomas Mikosch yBernoulli News is the ofųicial newsletter of the of Københavns Universitet for his excellent leadership in this role. Thomas’s last task was Bernoulli Society, publishing news, calendars of events, and opinion pieces of interest to Bernoulli Society mem- to lead the selection of the new editors in chief of the Bernoulli Journal. Starting January bers, as well as to the Mathematical Statistics and Prob- ability community at large. The views and opinions 1, the new co-editors in chief will be Mark Podolskij of Aarhus University and Markus Reis expressed in editorials and opinion pieces do not nec- essarily reųlect the ofųicial views of the Bernoulli So- of Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. ciety, unless explicitly stated, and their publication in Bernoulli News in no way implies their endorsement by the Bernoulli Society. Consequently, the Bernoulli So- … Continued on p. 1 Deadline for the next issue: 31 March, 2019 ciety does not bear any responsibility for the views ex- Send contributions to: [email protected] pressed in such pieces. Vol. 25 (2) • November 2018 Bernoulli News A View from the President (continued from front cover) They will be following in the footsteps of Holger lar, Kostya is interested in organizing and encouraging Dette of Ruhr-Universität, Bochum who has worked the videotaping of workshops for students and new re- very hard and has effectively put the Bernoulli Jour- searchers. Videotaping both research and educational nal on a Ůirm Ůinancial standing. Thanks to Holger workshops would allow us to help all members (and and welcome Mark and Markus! Welcome to our new potential members) improve their research activities. Bernoulli web editor, Soutir Bandyopadhyay of the Please contact Kostya if you would like to be involved Colorado School of Mines! Soutir has already been in these efforts! very active in bringing our website up to date. Please As I write this letter, I realize two points. We are contact Soutir or myself with ideas for improving our all very fortunate that we have so many engaged and website. Many thanks to Erik Baurdoux of the London active members and that it is highly likely that I have School of Economics and Political Science for his long overlooked some of the many people who are actively tenure in maintaining our website. working to improve our society. Please contact me if Carlos Améndola of TU München has taken over the you would like to join this elite group! And forgive me role of Bernoulli e-Briefs editor from Corina Constan- if I have missed your contribution. tinescu of University of Liverpool. Welcome Carlos Lastly as you know we sponsor a biannual Ethel and many thanks to all of the work that Corina has Newbold prize. Please see this newsletter for the ar- done for the Bernoulli Society over the years! ticle on our contribution to the restoration of Ethel I was fortunate to be the Australian Mathemati- Newbold’s grave in the Tunbridge Wells cemetery. Al- cal Sciences Institute-Statistical Society of Australia though our contribution was small, the restoration 2018 Lecturer. This meant that during the month was excellent. And in this newsletter you will Ůind the of August I traveled between Australian Universities Call for Nominations for the 2019 Newbold Prize! giving seminars. There is a high level of statisti- cal activity and energy across Australia! The East- Susan A. Murphy Asian and PaciŮic Regional Committee (chaired by President of the Bernoulli Society Konstantin Borovkov of the University of Melbourne) Cambridge, MA organizes Bernoulli activities in this region. In particu- Editorial Left to right: Richard J. Samworth, Bin Yu, and Susan A. Murphy. I am proud to announce that Richard Samworth Bernoulli Society has its Twitter account, (Council Member), Bin Yu, and Susan A. Murphy (Our @BernoulliSoc. Follow BS! President!) are the 2018 recipients of the prestigious awards by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Bernoulli Society sponsored the SAFIM workshop Societies (COPSS). SpeciŮically, Richard Samworth re- which took place in 20–24 August, 2018; the work- ceived the Presidents’ Award, Bin Yu received the Eliz- shop was held in Accra, Ghana, and it it brought to- abeth L. Scott Award, and Susan A. Murphy received gether renowned researchers and graduate students the R. A. Fisher Award. Congratulations!! from Stochastic Analysis, Financial and Insurance 1 Vol. 25 (2) • November 2018 Bernoulli News Mathematics ber 30 2018, in case you would like to be considered among the candidates for next Editor of the outlet. https://safim.aims.edu.gh/ I am sad to share that Doug Altman passed away in Thanks to Corina Constatinescu! I am also happy to June. We have a lost one of our giants! annouce that Marloes Maathuis will be the new ERC chair beginning in January 2019 for a 2 year period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Altman On a differente note: This is my penultimate issue as Editor of Bernoulli News. Please send expressions of Miguel de Carvalho interest to [email protected] (e-mail sub- Editor of Bernoulli News ject line: Bernoulli News Editorship), before Decem- Edinburgh News from the Bernoulli Society 2018 Doeblin Prize Jason Miller, recipient of the 2018 Doeblin Prize. Jason Miller is the recipient of the 2018 Doeblin cle in PTRF and will present the Doeblin Prize Lecture Prize. The prize is sponsored by Springer and is at SPA 2019. Congratulations! awarded to a single individual for outstanding re- Congratulations to Jason, and thanks to Springer for search in the Ůield of probability, and who is at the be- sponsoring the award. ginning of his or her mathematical career. Dr. Miller will contribute an invited Wolfgang Doeblin Prize Arti- Carlos Améndola Munich Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2019 The response to the Ůirst edition of the Bernoulli Congratulations to the recipients! Society New Researcher Award was fabulous. The awardees are Po-Ling Loh (University of Wisconsin- Carlos Améndola Madison), Gongjun Xu (University of Michigan) and Munich Lingzhou Xue (Pennsylvania State University). Nominations for European Regional Committee According to the statutes of the European Regional serve on the committee from 2019 to 2022. Committee (ERC) of the Bernoulli Society, eight of the The following eight candidates are nominated for sixteen members will step down by the end of 2018, election: and eight new members are to be elected in 2018 to 2 Vol. 25 (2) • November 2018 Bernoulli News Konrad Abramowicz, Umeå University, Sweden. Matúš Maciak, Charles University, Czech Repub- lic. Valérie Chavez, Université de Lausanne, Switzer- land. A group of at least Ůive European members of the Bernoulli Society can nominate further candidates. Antoine Chambaz, Université Paris Descartes, Additional nominations should be sent by email to France. [email protected], including documentation of the support of the Ůive members and that the nom- Leandro Pardo, Universidad Complutense de inated candidate is willing to serve on the committee. Madrid, Spain. Additional nominations will force an election among European members of the Bernoulli Society. If no fur- Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge, UK. ther nominations are received by Friday, December 7, the eight candidates listed above will be declared Zbigniew Szkutnik, AGH University of Science elected. and Technology in Kraków, Poland.
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