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Mailings for WSC

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ISI WSC 2021 - Virtual          ISI


Dear {name},

Thank you for participating in the first Virtual ISI World Statistics Congress and being a part of its success. We had 1600 delegates join from 106 countries, with many first-time WSC attendees as well as a large group of young and early-career statisticians. All recorded content is available on the platform until 16 August 2021:  Virt-Us – Virtual Event Platform: Login.

In the coming months, we will be working on the online Proceedings. Delegates will receive an email when the Proceedings become available. Papers already submitted for the Proceedings will be included.
If you were not able to submit your paper, or wish to resubmit a revised version, you will receive an email in September with further information.

If you have not yet completed the feedback survey, we kindly remind you to fill it in by 30 July 23:59 CEST — you will receive a reminder email with your personal link this Wednesday.

We look forward to seeing you all in Ottawa for the 64th ISI WSC.


Kind regards,

ISI WSC 2021 Team


Big thanks to our sponsors!

Mailings for ISI

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ISI     

Dear member,

In case you have received the email below, do not click on the link, and do not respond to the sender.

It is a phishing email, please delete it from your inbox.

Kind regards,

ISI Permanent Office

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From: Prof Kerrie Mengersen <xxxx@xxx.us>

Subject: ISI-AWARDNOV2021.PDF

Date: October 14, 2021 at 05:34:06 PDT

Dear Sir,

  • For the upcoming event (IASC-LARS WEBINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE) that will be held on the 22 November – 24 November 2021.  The ISI has prizes and awards that will be presented to you on that day.  We’ve attached below a link shared via Microsoft share point for your award details. 
  •  
  • ISI-AWARDNOV2021.PDF
  •  

Best regards,  
Prof Kerrie Mengersen  
ISI Award Coordinator, Vice-President

Mailings for IASE

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IASE          ISI

Dear IASE members,

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…

Best regards and stay safe!

Joachim Engel
IASE President

Mailings for IASS

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IASS          ISI

IASS Webinar: “Theory and Practice of Adaptive Survey Design at Statistics Netherlands”

28 October 2021, 2.00 – 3.30 pm CEST

All are invited to the webinar, organised by the International Association for Survey Statisticians, entitled

“Theory and Practice of Adaptive Survey Design at Statistics Netherlands”

Please register for the webinar at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4163351772562712334

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. There will be time for questions. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASS and ISI website. See below for the abstract and biography of the speakers.

Webinar Abstract

Adaptive survey designs aim to get a better balanced response by putting different effort in different groups of the population. They are effective in improving survey results and reducing survey costs. Over the last decade, a lot of methodological research has been done on this topic.

In this webinar, an overview of research on adaptive survey design will be presented. After that, the implementation of adaptive survey design is demonstrated at the hand of the Dutch Health survey. In this survey a sequential mixed mode strategy CAWI followed by CAPI is applied. The feature to adapt is the CAPI follow-up. The design is developed in such a way that through stratified selection of internet nonrespondents for face to face follow-up, nonresponse bias can potentially be reduced.

Mode-specific measurement errors which likely exist in many surveys, especially in the Health survey, have not received much attention in adaptive survey design. In order to separate and quantify mode-specific measurement effects and selection effects, an experiment with re-interviews is planned for the Health survey. The sampling and questionnaire design including analysis possibilities are discussed in the webinar.

Biography of Speakers

Kees van Berkel is a senior statistical researcher at the Data Collection Department of Statistics Netherlands and special professor of Statistics and Data Science at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. His research interests are in adaptive survey designs, sampling theory, weighting adjustments, and integrating surveys and big data for official statistics. Currently he is coordinating the migrations to adaptive survey designs at Statistics Netherlands.

Barry Schouten is senior methodologist at Statistics Netherlands and professor at the methods and statistics department of the faculty of Social Sciences and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University. His research concerns survey nonresponse analysis, reduction and adjustment, mixed-mode survey design, adaptive survey design and smart surveys. He is coordinator of research projects related to smart surveys in areas such as travel, time use, consumption and working conditions. He is also one of the coordinators of ESSnet Smart Surveys.

Mailings for TIES

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TIES          ISI

How Can Data Science Best Inform Environment Policy?
A Symposium Offered by The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
July 27th, 2021, 11:00-15:00 EDT (15:00-19:00 GMT)

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of application domains. The field includes the area of artificial intelligence (AI), methods that enable machines to understand, learn, and make decisions and predictions based on hidden patterns in data. The study of data science integrates knowledge primarily from statistics and computer science, and application domains like environmental science. There are many challenges still facing the field as it finds its footing. One such challenge is the pressing need to de-silo science and government data gathering and modeling to ensure domain-specific expertise is available for optimizing and developing relevant and powerful methods. From the governmental point of view, this connects to the need to accelerate the delivery of evidence-based approaches and tools for fulfilment of mandates and creation of policy. 

The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) has held annual conferences since 1990 on topics connected to environmetrics: quantitative methods, monitoring, decision analysis, spatio-temporal models, and so on. One common element in these conferences is the intensive use of data sourced from national science agencies, and members of such agencies (for instance NOAA, United States; ECCC, Canada; Met Office, United Kingdom) have long been attendees. A one-day free online symposium is being offered as part of the 2021 annual meeting (also online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic) exploring the topic of Data Science and Environmental Data, especially as applied to Policy at a governmental level.

The link to the Zoom meeting information for this symposium (one link for the entire session, attendees can join at any time) is:
https://trentu.zoom.us/j/99857333793?pwd=UVNRUmhoV0lqd21OTDAwQjU2dnZBQT09

The password for the meeting is TIES if you are prompted. Please note that we will not be running a sign-up or attendance – if you are interested, please simply attend! We hope you can join us for this fascinating topic. 

Organizers

Chair: Wesley Burr (wesleyburr@trentu.ca), Associate Professor of Statistics, Trent University (Canada), TIES Outreach Committee Member

Co-Chair: Nathaniel K. Newlands (nathaniel.newlands@canada.ca), Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Government of Canada); Adjunct Professor in Geography, University of Victoria, Canada, TIES North American Regional Officer

Mailings for IAOS

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IAOS          ISI

Dear IAOS Members,

On 11 October 2021, the ISI and IAOS have sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Fiji calling on him to act urgently to provide vindication of its actions to rebuild trust in Fiji statistics. This follows from the decision of the Fiji government to arbitrarily terminate the employment of the Government Statistician of Fiji, Mr Kemueli Naiqama, on 15 September 2021. The ISI and IAOS are concerned that the government’s action is a breach of the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and would in many countries be seen as unconstitutional.  It is the Government Statistician who guarantees to those outside the country that their trust in official statistics is well founded.

The letter sent to the Prime Minister of Fiji can be viewed here.

The following ISI/IAOS representatives can be contacted for more information: 

Len Cook: Len.Cook@lencook.co.nz
Dennis Trewin: dennistrewin@grapevine.net.au

Kind regards,

Misha Belkindas
IAOS President

Mailings for IASC

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IASC          ISI

Dear Colleagues,

As announced in June, the IASC 2021 General Assembly (GA) will take place on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, 15:00-17:00 CEST, as a virtual event. The GA will be held via the GoToMeeting platform. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the main agenda item once more will be the approval of the IASC Annual Report (including finances).

Please see below for times, virtual platform, and the final agenda (as of September 6, 2021).

I hope you and your loved ones are staying healthy in these difficult times. See you virtually on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.

Best wishes,

Juergen Symanzik
IASC President 2019-2021

IASC General Assembly

Wednesday, September 8, 2021
15:00 – 17:00 CEST (e.g., Berlin, Germany)
[6:00-8:00 Pacific Time (e.g., Los Angeles), 9:00-11:00 Eastern Time (e.g., New York), and 22:00-0:00 JST (e.g., Tokyo)]
Virtual Meeting using GoToMeeting

Instructions for using GoToMeeting

Please follow the links below at the time of the meeting. If you haven’t used GoToMeeting recently (or never used it so far), use the second link to install a current version of it on your computer. This may take a few minutes, depending on your internet speed.

IASC General Assembly
Wed, Sep 8, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (CEST)

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/758404381

You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (224) 501-3412

Access Code: 758-404-381

New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: 

https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/758404381

Here is a page where you can get some help related to GoToMeeting:

https://support.goto.com/meeting

Final Agenda (as of September 6, 2021)

  1. Opening
  2. Approval of the Agenda
  3. IASC Activity Report
    • a) General
    • b) Treasurer’s Report
    • c) Membership Report
    • d) ERS
    • e) ARS
    • f) LARS
    • g) African Members Group
    • h) Data Analysis Competition 2021 & Outlook on 2022/2023
    • i) WSC 2021
    • j) DSSV 2020 & 2021 Conferences & Outlook on DSSV 2022 Conference
    • k) JDSSV
    • l) Vote on the approval of the Annual Report (including finances) [an Extended Annual IASC Report is attached]
  4. Other business
  5. Closing

For any follow-up questions, please contact IASC Scientific Secretary, Abbass Sharif (asharif@marshall.usc.edu), or IASC President, Jürgen Symanzik (juergen.symanzik@usu.edu).

Mailings for BS

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Bernoulli Society          ISI

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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs

Issue 47, September 2021

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Contents

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS
  • OTHER EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Bojana Milošević bojana@matf.bg.ac.rs by October 30th.

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General News
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The Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointment

Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Torun, Poland) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society and Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) became the President-Elect. We thank previous President Claudia Klüppelberg for her dedicated work and steering of the society in the past years.

In addition, new ordinary Council Members were introduced: David Aldous (University of California, USA); Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University, Canada); Marie-Colette van Lieshout (CWI and University of Twente, Netherlands); Rolando Rebolledo (Valparaiso University, Chile); Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft, Netherlands).

Approved were also Johan Segers (UCLouvain, Belgium) as the new Treasurer (starting from January 2022); Marcos A. Valdebenito (Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile) as the new Chair of C(PS)^2; Gerda Claeskens (KU Leuven, Belgium) as the new Chair of ERC; Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (CIMAT, Mexico) as the new Chair of LARC; Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) as the new Chair of EAPRC (starting from January 2022).

Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members

At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held online on July 8th, 2021, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Adam Jakubowski (President of the BS), Victor Panaretos (President-Elect, Chair), Herold Dehling, Leonardo Rolla, Christina Goldschmidt, Marcos Valdebenito, Gesine Reinert, Gerda Claeskens, Zengjing Chen, Juan Carlos Pardo Millán and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2023-2025) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2023-2027. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Victor Panaretos (victor.panaretos@epfl.ch) by December 31st, 2021.

Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich) has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize

The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years. The name of the prize recognizes the 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.

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Highlighted Events
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Concentration Inequalities in Machine Learning

September 15, 2021
(Virtual)
https://youngstats.github.io/post/2021/06/30/concentration-inequalities-in-machine-learning/

The webinar “Concentration inequality in Machine Learning” organized by the Young Researchers Committee of the Bernoulli Society will take place on September 15th at 5 pm (CEST). Selected young European researchers active in probability and machine learning will present their recent contributions. The seminar is a joint cooperation with the One World YoungStatS project.

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Other Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
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22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)

September 6 – 10, 2021
Athens, Greece
www.eysm2021.panteion.gr

The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.

International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)

September 20 – 24, 2021
Vienna, Austria
http://cstat.tuwien.ac.at/filz/icors2020/

The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.

Frontier Probability Days (FPD’20)

December 3-5, 2021
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://lechen.faculty.unlv.edu/FPD20/

The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.

6th IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting

(to be announced) 2023
Melbourne, Australia
http://ims-aprm2021.com/

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.

Rényi 100 Conference

June 20 – 23, 2022
Budapest, Hungary
https://conferences.renyi.hu/renyi100/home

Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi’s spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.

International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)

June 20 – 24, 2022
Paphos, Cyprus
http://cyprusconferences.org/isnps2022/

The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.

42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)

June 27 – July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
http://spa2022.whu.edu.cn/

Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.

33rd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS 2022)

July 18 – 22, 2022
Moscow, Russia
https://ems2022.org/

The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.

40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics

May 23-27, 2022
Lammi, Finland
https://fdnss.fi/40th-finnish-summer-school-on-probability-and-statistics/

The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.

São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications

August 2-13, 2022
Campinas, Brazil
https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2022/

This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.

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Job Offers
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Head of the LSM at PSI and Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics at EPFL

The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) jointly seek to appoint a dynamic personality with strategic thinking abilities as Head of the Laboratory for Simulation and Modeling (LSM) at PSI, and as tenured Full Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at EPFL. This is a full-time position. With the research activities being primarily located at PSI, demonstrated research excellence in the development and analysis of methods for data-intensive science and high-performance computing in a multi-physics context is expected. Due to the multi- and interdisciplinarity of the LSM, there is a particular interest for a strongly integrative personality with a wide background in natural and engineering sciences. Demonstrated leadership experience and scientific management skills, as well as a strong interest for teaching and education, are essential. Applications including a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact information of at least five references who are ready to supply their letter upon request, should be submitted in PDF format via https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/33980418 by October 31 2021. Enquiries may be addressed to Prof. Victor Panaretos, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (e-mail:direction.math@epfl.ch) and Prof. Andreas Pautz, Director of the Nuclear Energy and Safety Division, PSI (e-mail: andreas.pautz@psi.ch ). Additional information is available at https://www.psi.ch, https://www.epfl.ch, https://sb.epfl.ch, https://math.epfl.ch.

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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
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Official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Bernoulli https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bernoulli

Stochastic Processes and their Applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications

SpringerBriefs in Probability and Mathematical Statistics https://www.springer.com/series/14353

Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news

Mailings for ISBIS

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ISBIS          ISI

Dear ISBIS members,

We are delighted to invite you to attend the next installment in the webinar series Leading Women in Business and Industrial Statistics. The details are as follows:

Speaker: Sonali Das, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Date: Friday, May 21st at 10.00 AM (Pretoria and Italy time)

Title: “Why being a female statistician in Africa matters, and more”

Abstract: In this presentation I share some of my experiences and observations being a female statistician from Africa. Weather has a direct and in-direct effect on many business decisions. I will share some of my current research on understanding weather data from South Africa using functional data analysis methods, and how such insights within the ecosystem of decision-making may be useful. I will also share some experiences in working with non-statisticians.

Registration: The webinar is free to attend but you need to register at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8702443633022227984

Best regards,
Fabrizio Ruggeri, Organizer             

Newsletter BS

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Bernoulli Society Bulletin e-Briefs

Issue 47, September 2021

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Contents

  • GENERAL NEWS
  • HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS
  • OTHER EVENTS
  • JOB OFFERS
  • RECENT ISSUES OF OFFICIAL AND SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS

For information to be considered in the next issue, please contact Bojana Milošević bojana@matf.bg.ac.rs by October 30th.

________________________________________

General News
________________________________________

The Bernoulli Society General Assembly approved new office appointment

Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Torun, Poland) became the new President of the Bernoulli Society and Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) became the President-Elect. We thank previous President Claudia Klüppelberg for her dedicated work and steering of the society in the past years.

In addition, new ordinary Council Members were introduced: David Aldous (University of California, USA); Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University, Canada); Marie-Colette van Lieshout (CWI and University of Twente, Netherlands); Rolando Rebolledo (Valparaiso University, Chile); Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft, Netherlands).

Approved were also Johan Segers (UCLouvain, Belgium) as the new Treasurer (starting from January 2022); Marcos A. Valdebenito (Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile) as the new Chair of C(PS)^2; Gerda Claeskens (KU Leuven, Belgium) as the new Chair of ERC; Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (CIMAT, Mexico) as the new Chair of LARC; Zengjing Chen (Shandong University, China) as the new Chair of EAPRC (starting from January 2022).

Call for nominations of President-Elect and Council Members

At the General Assembly of the Bernoulli Society, held online on July 8th, 2021, a Nominating Committee was established. It consists of Adam Jakubowski (President of the BS), Victor Panaretos (President-Elect, Chair), Herold Dehling, Leonardo Rolla, Christina Goldschmidt, Marcos Valdebenito, Gesine Reinert, Gerda Claeskens, Zengjing Chen, Juan Carlos Pardo Millán and Song Xi Chen (Scientific Secretary). The task of the committee is to make nominations for the office of President-Elect (2023-2025) and for ordinary Council members for the term 2023-2027. All members of the Bernoulli Society are invited to submit names of possible candidates (with basic information and the web address) to Victor Panaretos (victor.panaretos@epfl.ch) by December 31st, 2021.

Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich) has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize

The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every 2 years. The name of the prize recognizes the 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.

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Highlighted Events
________________________________________

Concentration Inequalities in Machine Learning

September 15, 2021
(Virtual)
https://youngstats.github.io/post/2021/06/30/concentration-inequalities-in-machine-learning/

The webinar “Concentration inequality in Machine Learning” organized by the Young Researchers Committee of the Bernoulli Society will take place on September 15th at 5 pm (CEST). Selected young European researchers active in probability and machine learning will present their recent contributions. The seminar is a joint cooperation with the One World YoungStatS project.

________________________________________

Other Events sponsored and co-sponsored by Bernoulli Society
________________________________________

22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM 2021)

September 6 – 10, 2021
Athens, Greece
www.eysm2021.panteion.gr

The European Young Statisticians Meetings is a series of conferences that is organized by and for young European statisticians, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. The meeting will take place online. Participation is by invitation only.

International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS)

September 20 – 24, 2021
Vienna, Austria
http://cstat.tuwien.ac.at/filz/icors2020/

The conference has been an annual international conference since 2001. The aim of the conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. This includes theoretical and applied statisticians as well as data analysts from other fields, and leading experts as well as junior researchers and graduate students.

Frontier Probability Days (FPD’20)

December 3-5, 2021
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://lechen.faculty.unlv.edu/FPD20/

The Frontier Probability Days is a regional workshop, now postponed to 2021 at the University of Nevada. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. FPD aims to complement other regional conferences in Probability that are held annually elsewhere in the United States.

6th IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting

(to be announced) 2023
Melbourne, Australia
http://ims-aprm2021.com/

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics APRM will provide an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim, and promote communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications Invited session proposals are now being considered.

Rényi 100 Conference

June 20 – 23, 2022
Budapest, Hungary
https://conferences.renyi.hu/renyi100/home

Alfréd Rényi was born on the 20th of March 1921. To celebrate this occasion, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing a high-profile conference, representing modern probability, graph theory and networks, information theory, dynamical systems, number theory and other fields in Rényi’s spirit. That is: not respecting strictly the borders between these and possibly other areas of pure and applied mathematics.

International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS2022)

June 20 – 24, 2022
Paphos, Cyprus
http://cyprusconferences.org/isnps2022/

The conference has been postponed to 2022 and it will bring forth recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include plenary talks, special invited talks, invited talks, contributed talks and posters on all areas of nonparametric statistics.

42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)

June 27 – July 1, 2022
Wuhan, China
http://spa2022.whu.edu.cn/

Previously scheduled for July 2021, the conference will take place in 2022. SPA Conferences are organized under the patronage of the Bernoulli Society and can justifiably be regarded as the most important international scientific meeting on the theory and applications of stochastic processes. They are held annually except for the years when the World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place. This iteration will be hosted by Wuhan University.

33rd European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS 2022)

July 18 – 22, 2022
Moscow, Russia
https://ems2022.org/

The European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), sponsored by the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society, is the main statistics conference in Europe. Statisticians of all ages and from all regions will meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the broad field of statistics and probability theory. The meeting is typically held every other year.

40th Finnish summer school in Probability and Statistics

May 23-27, 2022
Lammi, Finland
https://fdnss.fi/40th-finnish-summer-school-on-probability-and-statistics/

The mission of the summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS). It is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.


São Paulo Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications

August 2-13, 2022
Campinas, Brazil
https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2022/

This school, organized by Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica – IMECC/UNICAMP, is divided into two parts. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones, newly developed theories and their latest developments will be taught. To round up the program there will be further invited talks, poster sessions and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, the synchrotron light laboratories at Campinas. The school is financially supported by FAPESP.


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Job Offers
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Head of the LSM at PSI and Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics at EPFL

The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) jointly seek to appoint a dynamic personality with strategic thinking abilities as Head of the Laboratory for Simulation and Modeling (LSM) at PSI, and as tenured Full Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at EPFL. This is a full-time position. With the research activities being primarily located at PSI, demonstrated research excellence in the development and analysis of methods for data-intensive science and high-performance computing in a multi-physics context is expected. Due to the multi- and interdisciplinarity of the LSM, there is a particular interest for a strongly integrative personality with a wide background in natural and engineering sciences. Demonstrated leadership experience and scientific management skills, as well as a strong interest for teaching and education, are essential. Applications including a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact information of at least five references who are ready to supply their letter upon request, should be submitted in PDF format via https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/33980418 by October 31 2021. Enquiries may be addressed to Prof. Victor Panaretos, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (e-mail:direction.math@epfl.ch) and Prof. Andreas Pautz, Director of the Nuclear Energy and Safety Division, PSI (e-mail: andreas.pautz@psi.ch ). Additional information is available at https://www.psi.ch, https://www.epfl.ch, https://sb.epfl.ch, https://math.epfl.ch.


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Recent Issues of Official and Sponsored Publications
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Official publications of the Bernoulli Society

Bernoulli https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bernoulli

Stochastic Processes and their Applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/stochastic-processes-and-their-applications

SpringerBriefs in Probability and Mathematical Statistics https://www.springer.com/series/14353

Co-sponsored publications

Have a look at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications for the latest articles in Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Probability Surveys, Statistics Surveys, and ALEA.

Bernoulli News

Latest issue at http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publications/bernoulli-news