ISI - International Statistical Institute ISI Newsletter Volume 26, no. 1 (76) 2002
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Editorial Address | Enno Mammen, Institut für Angewandte
Mathematik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Tel: +49–6221–548981 Fax: +49–6221–545331 E-mail: mammen@statlab.uni-heidelberg.de |
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| President | Peter G. Hall, Australian National
University, Statistics, Center for Mathematics and its Applications, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Tel: +61–6–2493474 Fax: +61–6–2494675 E-mail: halpstat@fac.anu.edu.au |
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THIS CONTRIBUTION WAS EDITED BY ENNO MAMMEN, SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY OF BS.
Editorial
This edition contains an obituary for Carl-Gustav Esseen. Furthermore we report on the special offer for 2002 to encourage persons to join the Bernoulli Society and on upcoming scientific meetings sponsored or co-organised by BS. For more information see also the electronic version of
Bernoulli News:
http://isi.cbs.nl/bnews/index.html
For information on recent committee activities, see also http://oz.Berkeley.EDU/~brill/CPS2/ (Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences) and http://www.math.ku.dk/~michael/erc/ (European Regional Committee).
Special offers for membership dues 2002
Apart from the usual offers, there will be a couple of new special offers to encourage people, especially our younger colleagues, to join our society.
These are:
- in addition to students, also postdocs (until two years after graduation) can become a member for half the amount of the dues;
- a free membership which does not include BERNOULLI, is offered to students and postdocs;
- those who become a member in 2002 and normally would have to pay full dues, will only pay half of their dues for their first year.
Bernoulli-sponsored Meetings and other meetings of interest
5th International Conference on Operations Research Optimisation, Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Economics and Algorithms
Date: 4-8 March 2002
Place: Havana, Cuba
Contact: Carlos Bouza
Information: Prof. Dr. J. Guddat (guddat@mathematik.hu-berlin.de),
(kerger@mathematik.hu-.berlin.de), Prof. Dr. L. Rodríguez Marín (lromarin@ind.uned.es).
The Fifth German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics
Date: 19-22 March 2002
Place: University of Magdeburg, Germany
Contact: stoch2002@uni-magdeburg.de
Website: http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/stoch2002
In the tradition of the previous conferences, held in Marburg 1993, Freiberg 1996, Munich 1998, and Hamburg 2000, the 'Magdeburger Stochastik-Tage' provides an international forum for presentation and discussions of new results in the area of probability and statistics. The conference is open for all participants from universities, business, administration and industry.
Program Committee: Gerd Christoph (Magdeburg), Lutz Duembgen (Luebeck), Jürgen Gaertner (Berlin), Ursula Gather (Dortmund), Norbert Henze (Karlsruhe), Claudia Klüppelberg (Munich), Volker Nollau (Dresden), Volker Schmidt (Chair, Ulm), Winfried Stute (Giessen).
Local Organizing Committee: Gerd Christoph (Chair), Norbert Gaffke (Vice-Chair), Berthold Heiligers, Waltraud Kahle, Axel Lehmann, Burkhard Thiele.
Address:
Magdeburger Stochastik-Tage 2002
c/o Prof. Dr. Gerd Christoph
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Institut für Mathematische Stochastik
Universitätsplatz 2
D-39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Fax: 0049- (0) 391-67 11172
Phone: 0049- (0) 391-67 18652
Sections, Organisers & Invited Speakers:
The Stochastik-Tage are organised in sections, all of which comprise an invited survey lecture (40 min) and contributed lectures (25 min, including discussion) in parallel sessions. Additionally, there will be three invited plenary lectures (including opening and closing lecture), a panel discussion on the topic 'Stochastik für die Schule', and a conference dinner. Upon request, poster sessions will be enabled; software presentations are also possible.
During the conference, an assembly of the Fachgruppe Stochastik will take place.
Plenary Lectures:
Panel Discussion:
A panel discussion on the topic "Stochastik für die Schule" will be held under the chairmanship of Norbert Henze (Karlsruhe). The following persons have agreed to be discussants: Joachim Engel (Ludwigsburg), Heinz Klaus Strick (Leverkusen), Sabine Zoellner (Stendal).
Award:
The prize of the Fachgruppe Stochastik, which is announced for outstanding doctoral dissertations, will be awarded during the conference.
See: http://wws.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~netwww/fgshtml/foerderpreis
Conference languages are German and English.
Workshop on Nonparametric Smoothing in Complex Statistical Models
Date: April 28th - May 3rd 2002
Place: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland
Organizer: Hans-Ruedi Kuensch, Enno Mammen, Theo Gasser
This workshop deals with regression problems with possibly many predictors, and partly with classification problems. Nonparametric, additive and semiparametric models will be of central interest. The workshop takes place in a beautiful conference centre managed by ETH Zurich with restaurant and hotel facilities, enabling intense contacts between participants. Attendance is limited to about 50 persons.
For details, go to: www.unizh.ch/biostat/Smoothing2002/
Date: 13-17 May 2002
Place: Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Organizer: Leopold Simar
Contact: Claudia Lemoine (lemoine@stat.ucl.ac.be)
Website: http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/jsbl2002
The 34th Journées de Statistique of the Société Française de Statistique will be held in Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. This event is jointly organised by the Institutes of Statistics of the Université libre de Bruxelles and of the Université catholique de Louvain. The main topics include statistical analysis of functional data, actuarial and financial econometrics, resampling methods, nonparametric inference and modelling, voice and writing recognition, epidemics, genomics as well as mathematical statistics. In addition to these main topics, a number of invited sessions will focus on various subjects.
The conference is open to all persons interested in statistics, affiliated to universities, national institutes of statistics, business or industry.
Workshop on "Statistical Modelling and Inference for Complex Data Structures"
The aim of this international workshop is to stimulate discussion about the state of the art of statistical modelling and inference for complex data structures. As such it will be part of the 1st workshop of the research network Inter-university Attraction Pole (Phase 5) between six different Belgian and international universities (RWTH Aachen, UJF Grenoble, KULeuven, LUC Diepenbeek, ULBruxelles, and UCLouvain).
Invited Speakers: Anestis Antoniadis, Luc Devroye, Paul Embrechts, Jianqing Fan, Jürgen Franke, Peter Hall, Nils Lid Hjort, Marie Huskova, Gabor Lugosi, Hans-Georg Müller, David Scott, Bernard Silverman, Noël Veraverbeke.
Date: May 21-23
Place: Institute of Statistics, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Contact: Rainer von Sachs, Institute of Statistics, Catholic University of Louvain, Voie du Roman Pays 20, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;
E-mail: rvs@stat.ucl.ac.be;
Website: http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/workshop2002
A Conference Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of B.V. Gnedenko
Date: 3-7 June 2002
Place: Kyiv, Ukraine
Contact: Oleg Klesov (National Technical University of Ukraine, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Probability Theory, pr. Peremogy 37, 02056 Kyiv, Ukraine).
Website: http://ln.com.ua/~tbimc/gnedenko
The conference will focus on topics close to a wide range of scientific interests of B.V. Gnedenko. The aim is twofold: first, to highlight the contributions of B.V.Gnedenko in probability theory and its applications, history of mathematics, problems of education, and, second, to present the developments of his ideas as well as the current trends in the theory of probability and related fields.
Organizing committee: V.S. Korolyuk (co-head), Yu.V. Prokhorov (co-head), V.V. Buldygin, S.S. Demidov, D.B. Gnedenko, I.A. Ibragimov, V.I. Khokhlov, O.I. Klesov, Yu.G. Kondratiev, Yu.S. Mishura, M.O. Perestyuk, N.I. Portenko, Yu.A. Rozanov, A.M. Samoilenko, V.V. Sazonov, B.A. Sevastyanov, A.N. Shiryaev, Ya.G. Sinai, M.I. Skil, V.V. Skopenko, A.V. Skorokhod, N.N. Vakhania, M.I. Yadren-ko, O.K. Zakusylo, V.M. Zolotarev.
Sections and organizers
Stochastic Inequalities and Their Applications: a Euroconference
Date: 17-21 June 2002
Place: Centre de Recerca Matemŕtica, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
Contact: David Nualart (Universitat de Barcelona: nualart@mat.ub.es).
Website: http://www.crm.es/stochineq
Striking advances on stochastic inequalities have taken place in recent years. The most dramatic advance is probably Talagrand's extension of the classical Prohorov-Bernstein exponential inequalities to empirical processes, which is already having a tremendous impact in Mathematical Statistics and in other areas. Also, differential and geometric techniques are being borrowed from other areas and being successfully incorporated in Probability, and the more classical probability techniques are being refined, in order to obtain inequalities useful in the study of limit theory, regularity of solutions of stochastic differential equations, time regularity of anticipating integrals, Malliavin Calculus, combinatorial optimisation, information theory.
The topics to be covered in this Euroconference belong to different areas of Probability, Statistics and Analysis, and therefore the conference will provide a unique opportunity for exchange of ideas occurring in different fields and for interdisciplinary contact and collaboration, that will hopefully lead to fruitful developments. The topics include: Concentration and deviation inequalities for various types of processes using isoperimetry, differential inequalities and information inequalities; other exponential and moment inequalities for sums of independent or weakly dependent random vectors and related variables; inequalities in Malliavin Calculus; geometric inequalities for log-concave probability measures, particularly
Gaussian correlation inequalities; martingale and decoupling inequalities.
A very successful first Conference on Stochastic Inequalities, with coverage of similar topics, took place in Atlanta, USA, in 1997.
The Scientific program will have plenary lectures, invited and contributed one-half hour lectures, and problem and discussion sessions. Submissions are encouraged in the areas described above.
Plenary Lectures will be given by Luis Caffarelli (Austin, Texas, USA), Nicolai Krylov (Saint Paul/Minneapolis, Min-nesota, USA), Rafal Latala (Warsaw, Poland), Michel Ledoux (Toulouse, France), Gŕbor Lugosi, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), Pascal Massart (Orsay, France), Colin McDiarmid (Ox-ford, UK), Philip Protter (Ithaca, New York, USA), Emmanuel Rio (Versailles, France) and Ofer Zeitouni (Haifa, Israel).
Scientific Programme Committee: Evarist Giné (Storrs, Connecticut, USA), David Nualart (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) and Christian Houdré (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
Local Organizing Committee: David Nualart, Frederic Utzet, Arturo Kohatsu, Maria Jolis.
Further Information:
Details about registration and further information will be available from the web page, or by contacting the Conference Secretary, Consol Roca, Centre de Recerca Matemática, Apartat 50, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; E-mail:
crm@crm.es ; Tel: + 34-93-5811081.
Conference of The International Environmetrics Society - TIES, 2002
Date: June 18 - 22, 2002
Place: Faculty of Engineering, University Genoa, Genoa, Italy
The Conference aims to provide a forum of discussion to scientists working for the environment in different fields and types of applications. Sessions will include: Air quality monitoring and assessment, Chemometrics, Cleaner Production Methods, Ecological monitoring, Energy and Environment, Environmental Economics, Environmental human health statistics, Environmental Management Systems, Environmental monitoring, Environmental risk assessment, Environmental standards, Environmental sustainability and environmetrics, Environmental transport and mixing processes, Environmetrics in meteorology and climatology, Global Environmental Problems, Integrating remote sensing in monitoring, International environmental statistics, Modelling environmental systems, National environmental statistics, Remediation Techniques, Statistical modelling of spatial data in ecology, Training in environmental statistics, Water quality monitoring and assessment.
The conference will include plenary papers, invited paper sessions, contributed paper sessions, and poster sessions. Two special lectures will be given: the J. Stuart Hunter Lecture and the TIES President Invited Lecture. The conference will include a short course on the estimation of human impact on the environment.
The deadline for submission of Abstracts by participants is April 30, 2002. Members of the Organizing Committee are: Daniela Cocchi, Universitŕ degli Studi di Bologna, Italy (cocchi@stat.unibo.it), V. Dově, Universitŕ di Genova, Italy (dovi@istic.unige.it), Sylvia Esterby, Okanagan University College, Canada (sresterby@ouc.bc.ca).
Conference registration and accommodation information can be found at http://www2.stat.unibo.it/ties2002
Daniela Cocchi
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "P. Fortunati"
Via delle Belle Arti 41
40126 Bologna
Italy
Tel.: +39 051 2098234
Fax: +39 051 232153
E-mail: cocchi@stat.unibo.it
SPA'02: 28th International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
Date: 1-5 July 2002
Place: The University of Melbourne, Australia
Contact: spa@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.spa28.ms.unimelb.edu.au
The Scientific Programme Committee includes: S. Asmussen, P.J. Brockwell, L.H.Y. Chen, F. Den Hollander, C.C. Heyde, G.R. Grimmett, I.A. Ibragimov, O. Zeitouni.
The Organizing Committee consists of: T. Brown (chairman), K. Borovkov (Scientific Secretary), G. Byrnes, K. Hamza, B. Hughes, F. Klebaner, A. Sudbury, R. Watson, N. Wormald, A. Xia.
The topics include, but are not limited to: stochastic analysis, discrete random processes and randomised algorithms, topics in limit theorems, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Markov processes, random processes in random environments, point processes, as well as application areas such as: stochastic processes in finance and insurance; stochastic processes in physics; applications to telecommunications; time series; modelling in biology and medicine.
The 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference
Date: 7-10 July 2002
Place: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Website: http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/2002symp
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, will host the 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference from 7 to 10 July 2002, jointly organised by the Institute of Statistical Science, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), Executive Yuan, and the East-Asian and Pacific Regional Committee (EAPRC) of the Bernoulli Society.
International Conference on Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics
Date: 15-19 July 2002
Place: Knossos Royal Village, Limin Hersonissou, Crete, Greece.
Organizers: Michael G. Akritas and Dimitris N. Politis
Website: http://www.stat.psu.edu/~npconf
The meeting is cosponsored by Bernoulli Society, IMS and the Nonparametrics Section of ASA.
Main themes:
Deadline for submitting contributed papers: 30 April 2002
The 24th European Meeting of Statisticians and 14th Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions and Random Processes
Date: 19-23 August 2002
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Contact: ems@utia.cas.cz
Web-site: http://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems/
Scientific Programme Committee: J. urecková (Czech Republic), T. Ledwina (Poland), F. Liese (Germany),
T. Mikosch (Denmark, Chair), C. Rogers (United Kingdom), I. Vajda (Czech Republic), D. von Rosen (Sweden).
Local Organizing Committee: J. Antoch, P. Bocek, A. Fialová, D. Hlubinka, J. Ivánek, M. Janzura (Chair), A. Otáhal, Z. Prásková, H. Rezanková, J. Vejnarová, M. Zeithamlová.
Scientific Programme:
Special Invited Lectures:
Invited Sessions and Their Organizers:
Further information:
Details about registration, instructions for sending abstracts, deadlines and other information are available on the conference homepage:
http://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems
Satellite and Related Events:
Statistics in Genetics (Munich, August 14-16, 2002)
Satellite Meeting to the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians in Prague
The Human Genome Project and advances in technology led to a huge amount of genetic data. However, knowledge of the underlying biological mechanisms and functionalities is still limited. These problems are extremely complex and require advanced and novel statistical techniques. The meeting will bring together state-of-the-art researchers from the following fields:
Invited speakers are: David Balding, Amir Dembo, Paul Eilers, Trevor Hastie, Chris Holmes, Michael Newton, Gesine Reinert, Nuala Sheehan, Terry Speed.
Programme Committee: Heike Bickeböller, Ludwig Fahrmeir, Claudia Klüppelberg, Gerhard Winkler.
The Meeting is supported by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), SFB 386: "Statistical Analysis of Discrete Structures".
Deadlines for the submission of papers is April 20, 2002; for early registration it is June 15, 2002.
For further information please contact our webpage:
http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/sfb386/workshop/sig2002/
or
Iris Burger, SFB 386, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Ludwigstrasse 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany.
E-mail: sfb386@stat.uni-muenchen.de
Fax: +49 89 2180 5039
Tel.: +49 89 2180 3418
Symposium on Stochastics and Applications (SSA)
Date: 15-17 August 2002
Place: National University of Singapore
Contact: ssa@math.nus.edu.sg,
Fax: 65-779 5452,
Web-site: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/ssa
An ICM-2002 Satellite Conference to be held in the National University of Singapore (NUS)
Topics: Financial mathematics, Gaussian random fields, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Probability approximations, Random matrices
Organizing Committee: Louis H.Y. Chen, NUS (Chairperson); Zhidong Bai, NUS; Kwok-Pui Choi, NUS; Anthony Y.C. Kuk, NUS; Seng-Luan Lee, NUS; Wei-Liem Loh, NUS; Jiann-Hua Lou, NUS; Qi-Man Shao, University of Oregon; Yeneng Sung, NUS; Young K.N. Truong, NUS and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Invited Speakers: Zhidong Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Rudolph Beran, U C Berkeley, USA; Andrew Barbour, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Timothy Brown, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Hans Föllmer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Friedrich Goetze, Bielefeld University, Germany; Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK; David Heath, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (not confirmed); Wilfrid Kendall, University of Warwick, UK; Shigeo Kusuoka, University of Tokyo, Japan (not confirmed); Michel Ledoux, L'Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Rennes (INSA), France; Wenbo Li, University of Delaware, USA; Leonid Pastur, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France; Qi-man Shao, University of Oregon, USA; Yeneng Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Jia-an Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2nd Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance (September 20-22, 2002, Samos, Greece)
The Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science of the University of the Aegean is pleased to host the 2nd Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, to be held in Samos, on September 20-22, 2002.
This event is jointly organised with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Department of Applied Economics and Department of Mathematics) and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Institute of Statistics and Actuarial research group), Belgium.
The Conference allows the presentation of the latest works in the area of actuarial science and finance. It is open to all persons interested in actuarial science and finance, be they from universities, insurance companies, banks, consulting firms or regulatory authorities. The conference aims to facilitate the contact and the communication between the practicians and the researchers; a special session will be devoted to different aspects of actuarial practice.
The main topics include:
A number of sessions will explore the different aspects of these areas.
There will 3 pre-conference short courses from September 16-19, 2002:
Postgraduate students and young researchers are especially welcome.
For further information, please refer to: http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/Samos2002/
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