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BERNOULLI NEWS, Vol 26 No 2 (2019) Vol. 26 (2), November 2019 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. 5 Awards and Prizes p. 6 New Executive Members in the Bernoulli Society p. 8 Articles and Letters Dear Members of the Bernoulli Society, Random Planar Geometry Through the Lens of Uniform Spanning Tree p. 10 The irst issue of Bernoulli News appeared, with me as founding editor, in June 1994, so almost precisely 15 years ago. Since then Bernoulli New has provided information on activities of the Society, also exciting stories, and sometimes interesting scientiic Past Conferences, pieces. The present issue is edited by our new editor: Manuele Leonelli replaces Miguel Meetings and Workshops de Carvalho, and I want to thank Miguel for his excellent service and also wish Manuele p. 14 as much pleasure as I had creating the irst newsletters. And, whereas in the irst issue 15 years ago, Ole Barndorff‑Nielsen wrote the presidential letter, now I have the pleasure of writing “about recent undertakings aimed at strengthening the scientiic impact of the Next Conferences, Society and improving its services to the members’’. Meetings and Workshops and Calendar of Events Before I tell you more about this, let me irst thank the now past president Susan Murphy, who not only kept the Society running eficiently, but also started new initiatives. Under p. 19 her presidency, a New Researcher Award was implemented. Proposed by BS Membership Secretary Leonardo Rolla and BS Youth Representative Roy Parthanil, a New Researcher Award Session took place at the ISI WSC in Kuala Lumpur this summer, and three prize Follow winners had the chance to present their work. Watch out for more information about our Awardees in this Newsletter! @BernoulliSoc Of utmost importance for the Society is the Scientiic Secretary, and again there is a Editor change of ofice: Song‑Xi Chen follows Byeong U. Park (there is a photo in this Newsletter MANUELE LEONELLI of both). During the past two years, as president‑elect I well noticed that Byeong took on School of Human Sciences and Technology IE UNIVERSITY a huge amount of work, in particular in formulating and running all decisions to be taken MADRID, SPAIN by the Executive Committee and Council. He also kept an eye on everybody to follow BS Statutes and procedures. Thank you, Byeong! And I wish Song‑Xi a smooth settlement Contact into this position, where the running of BS relies so heavily on. [email protected] †Bernoulli News is the oficial newsletter of the Another of Susan’s initiatives summarizes all publicity issues in a new standing commit‑ Bernoulli Society, publishing news, calendars of events, and opinion pieces of interest to Bernoulli Society mem‑ tee: The Publicity Committee, chaired by Publicity Secretary Victor Panaretos, manages all bers, as well as to the Mathematical Statistics and Prob‑ ability community at large. The views and opinions issues related to publicity and the dissemination of information and news to members of expressed in editorials and opinion pieces do not nec‑ the Bernoulli Society and beyond. It coordinates the publication of the Bernoulli [...] essarily relect the oficial views of the Bernoulli So‑ 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, 2020 ciety does not bear any responsibility for the views ex‑ Send contributions to: [email protected] pressed in such pieces. Vol. 26 (2) November 2019 Bernoulli News • A View from the President (contnued from front cover) E‑Briefs electronic newsletter (Carlos Amendola), and you ind a very nice poster, of the Society’s print newsletter, Bernoulli News which we hope that you print out and post it on the (Manuele Leonelli). It also manages the Soci‑ notice‑board of your department. Registration will ety’s webpage (Soutir Bandyopadhyay) and Twitter open soon. Let me repeat three suggestions from pre‑ page (Corina Constantinescu). The Society should vious BS president Sara van der Geer after having vis‑ also become more visible in other social media, ited the site (Bernoulli News 23(2), 2016): “Firstly, to and if you would like to join the Committee for consider staying at a youth hostel instead of a hotel. taking on such a task, please don’t hesitate to The hostels have no age limit and they are about as write to Victor ([email protected]) or myself comfortable as most hotels here in Zürich but much ([email protected]). cheaper. Secondly, to consider a trip to the North Ko‑ Get involved! rean border, for example the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region. Thirdly, to attend the General Assembly at this Following up on an idea by the former EAPRC Chair congress, we plan to have food and drinks!’’ . Kostya Borovkov, the Society has started a video web‑ site, where also some historic recordings, including Write this conference down in your agenda! one of the First World Congress of the Bernoulli So‑ Exciting member news have reached me in the ciety in Tashkent (1986) can be found. This website past months: Previous BS President (1989‑1991) Al‑ should serve as future home of plenary and invited lec‑ bert Shiryaev celebrates his 85th birthday in Octo‑ tures of BS conferences. At this moment you ind sev‑ ber, and previous BS President (2013‑2015) Wilfrid eral videos of such lectures from 41st SPA in Evanston Kendall his 65th birthday in December. Moreover, this summer. We very much hope to make more lec‑ our long‑standing BS member Peter Donnelly has been tures of our main conferences available in the future. knighted for his services to the understanding of hu‑ man genetics in desease by Queen Elisabeth this sum‑ Next year we will have our lagship Conference: the mer. Bernoulli‑IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place in Seoul, South Korea, August The Bernoulli Society congratulates! 17‑21, 2020. This promises to be an unforgettable Claudia Klüppelberg event at a fabulous location. The invited speaker ses‑ President of the Bernoulli Society sions have been almost completed and, believe me, Munich they are very interesting. On the conference website Editorial This is my irst issue as Editor of Bernoulli News and act with the society! I am very excited to start this new adventure with you Let me also give a little preview of the possible nov‑ all! elties that will be introduced in the next issues of Foremost, I would like to thank Miguel de Carvalho Bernoulli News. We are planning to include a new sec‑ for his outstanding work as Editor for the past four tion on interviews with long‑term, outstanding mem‑ years and for guiding me through the editorial pro‑ bers of the Bernoulli Society, telling us about their ca‑ cess. Under his editorship, Bernoulli News has become reers and how the interactions with the society had an a true reference for the whole Bernoulli Society. On impact in their lives. We have some great names lined‑ behalf of the Bernoulli Society, I wish you the best for up already, so stay tuned!! your future! The summer was full of exciting and inspiring But it is also time to look forward and to welcome events (you can read about these on p. 14), but we so many new members in the various committees of should all already look forward to the 2020 Bernoulli‑ the Bernoulli Society. I wish a great work to our new IMS World Congress: don’t miss the lealet at the end President Claudia Klüppelberg as well as to all other of the issue! new members (you can ind their Bios on p. 8). Let me I hope you will enjoy reading the issue just as much mention that Corina Constantinescu is now the Twit‑ as I enjoyed editing it: the number and variety of ac‑ ter manager of @BernoulliSoc which now includes all tivities of the Bernoulli Society is simply outstanding! news and exciting contents from the Bernoulli Society: don’t miss this opportunity to get involved and inter‑ The Editor Madrid 1 Vol. 26 (2) November 2019 Bernoulli News • News from the Bernoulli Society News from the General Assembly at ISI‐WSC The Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved mittee Chair. new ofice appointments at the ISI World Statistics Moreover, a new post “Publicity Secretary” on the Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. Executive Committee and a new standing “Publicity Claudia Klüppelberg (TU Munich) became the Committee” was established with Victor Panaretos as new President of the Bernoulli Society (with Adam chair. This gives the ad‑hoc oficer Publicity Chair Jakubowski (University of Torun) as President‑Elect) (Victor Panaretos, since February 2018) its proper sta‑ and Song Xi Chen (Peking University) replaced Byeong tus. U. Park as Scientiic Secretary. We thank Victor for his support in developing this We thank previous President Susan Murphy and important new committee. previous Scientiic Secretary Byeong U. Park for their Lastly, we are pleased to inform that Corina Con‑ dedicated service and steering of the society in the stantinescu (University of Liverpool) is taking over as past years. main responsible for the Bernoulli Society Twitter ac‑ The following appointments were also approved: count, @BernoulliSoc. We encourage all BS members Michael Beer (University of Hannover) as new C(PS)2 to follow the Bernoulli Society on Twitter! Chair; Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich) as new Euro‑ Carlos Améndola pean Regional Committee Chair; Florencia Leonardi Editor of e‑Briefs (University of São Paulo) as new Latin American Com‑ Munich Byeong Uk Park Steps Down as Scientfc Secretary All of us at the Bernoulli Society extend our thanks to Byeong Uk Park for his long service to the Bernoulli Society.
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