ISI - International Statistical Institute
ISI Newsletter Volume 26, no. 3 (78) 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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| Website | http://isi.cbs.nl/bs.htm |
THIS CONTRIBUTION WAS EDITED BY
ENNO MAMMEN, SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY OF BS.
Editorial
This edition contains a call for help for the library of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague, which was damaged during the recent flooding. It contains reports from standing committees of the society and reports 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.
Call for help
The recent flood in Central Europe heavily hit the Prague district of Karlin, where the Library of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University (Sections "Mathematics" and "Computer Science") is situated. Part of this library consists of extremely valuable historical prints, some of which date back as early as the 17th century. More than 70 percent of all books and journals in the library were under water for more than three days. Recovery of the books and journals, if at all possible, will be complicated and costly. The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics is determined to put forth its best efforts to save them; in addition to other steps, it decided to organise a public donation.
Until now, the Czech colleagues have played a very active role in the Bernoulli Society. Many of them have served and are still serving as officers. Moreover, they have already organised two meetings of the European Meeting of Statisticians. Both took place in Prague, the last one this year shortly after the flood. This made the organisation of the meeting extremely hard.
If you feel able and are willing to help, you can either transfer money to the following bank account
Account title: Charles University in Prague
Account number: 01256280/0300
Bank: CSOB a.s., Na Porici 24, 115 20 Praha 1
SWIFT code: CEKO CZ PP
Variable symbol: 900
Please do not forget to pay the transfer fees and to include the variable symbol in the details of your payment!), or send a personal cheque payable to:
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Address: MFF UK, hospodarske odd., Ke Karlovu 3, CZ-121 16 Praha 2, Czech Republic.
For more information see also
http://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems/flood.html
And http://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems/library
Special offers for membership dues 2002
Apart from the usual special offers, there are a couple of new special offers to encourage
people, especially our younger colleagues, to join our society.
These are:
besides 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 post docs;
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.
Committee Work
Latin American Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society (LARC)
Forthcoming Events sponsored by LARC:
IX CLAPEM (Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática), Montevideo, Uruguay, 10-14 November 2003, http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/clapem
All information concerning LARC can be found in our web site http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/larc
In addition, a bulletin in Spanish language is edited by Andrea Rivero and by Gonzalo Perera, and it is distributed by e-mail. All kind of information related to probability and statistics that may be of interest for LARC members are welcome.
Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences of the Bernoulli Society (C(PS)˛)
Forthcoming Events sponsored by C(PS)˛:
The Thirteenth International Conference on Quantitative Methods for the Environmental Sciences and The Twelfth General Meeting of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2003) , August 21 to 24, 2003, Beijing, China, http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ties2003/
For information on other recent committee activities, see also http://oz.Berkeley.EDU/~brill/CPS2/
The European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society (ERC)
The European Regional Committee held its 2002 meeting during the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians in Prague, the Czech Republic. The most important points at the meeting and in email discussions during the previous year were:
The following new members of the ERC were declared elected for the period 2002--2006: Stephen P. Brooks (UK), Alexander Bulinski (Russia), Petros Dellaportas (Greece), Ingrid K. Glad (Norway), Adam Jakubowski (Poland), Tonu Kollo (Estonia), Catherine Laredo (France), and Daniel Peńa (Spain).
The 13th European Young Statisticians Meeting will take place in Ovronnaz, Switzerland in the days September 21 - 26, 2003. The members of the Local Organizing Committee are Reinhard Furrer, Thomas Gsponer, Baptiste Fournier and Eva Restle.
The next Séminaire Européen de Statistique (SemStat) will be held in the Spring or Summer of 2004. The theme will be spatial-temporal processes and their statistics. The venue has not been decided yet. Claudia Klüppelberg wished to retire from the SemStat Steering Group and has been replaced by Michael Sřrensen. The ERC is grateful to Claudia Klüppelberg for the enormous work she has done for SemStat.
The 25th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Oslo in 2005. The meeting will be organised jointly by the Norwegian Computing Centre and the University of Oslo. The Chairman of the Local Organising Committee is Arnoldo Frigessi, and the Deputy Chairman is Nils Lid Hjort. It is expected that the broadening of the invited scientific programme decided by the ERC at its meeting in Prague will be visible in the programme of this meeting. Hopefully, the meeting will be attractive to a broad cross-section of statisticians and probabilists from all regions of Europe.
The 24th European Meeting of Statisticians was held August 19 - 23, 2002 in Prague, the Czech Republic. The meeting was joint with the Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, and Random Processes. In spite of the enormous problems caused by the flooding of Prague in the week before the meeting, the 24th EMS took place almost according to plan. Only relatively few participants had cancelled their participation, and the invited programme was affected to only a minor degree by cancellations. The ERC wishes to express its profound gratitude to the organiser of the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians, Martin Janzura, and the Local Organising Committee for arranging an unusually well-organised EMS under extremely difficult conditions. The ERC is also deeply grateful to the Scientific Programme Committee and in particular to its chairman Thomas Mikosch for his dedicated and able work. The meeting was supported financially by the European Commission through the Improving Human Potential Programme (High-Level Scientific Conferences).
The ERC is similarly grateful to those who organised or lectured at the Séminaire Européen de Statistique instructional workshop on Extreme Value Theory and Applications held in Gothenburg, Sweden in the days December 10 - 15, 2001. The lecturers were Sid Resnick, Thomas Mikosch, Claudia Klüppelberg, Richard Smith, Stuart Coles, Anne-Laure Fourgčres, and Paul Embrechts. The organisers of the meeting were Holger Rootzén, Bärbel Finkenstädt, Johan Segers and Jaques de Maré.
The ERC has up-dated its statutes and the scenarios for the arrangement of the European Meetings of Statisticians and the SemStat courses. Apart from a number of natural up-dates caused by, e.g., the availability of e-mail, the main changes in the scenario for the arrangement of the European Meetings of Statisticians are that the new version of the scenario enables and encourages a broader and larger invited programme than has so far been the tradition, that from now on the meetings will be held biennially, and that the tradition of fairly modest circumstances has been emphasised more strongly.
After the ERC meeting in Prague, Claudia Klüppelberg (Germany) took over the responsibilities as Chair of the ERC for the term 2002-2004.
The new ERC Statutes, the new versions of the EMS and SemStat
scenarios, and the minutes of the ERC meeting in Prague can be down-loaded from the ERC web-page at the address
http://www-m4.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/m4/erc/
Here further information about the activities of the ERC and about future meetings can be found
too.
Michael Sřrensen, past Chair
Special rate for Finance and Stochastics
'Springer-Verlag has generously offered Bernoulli Society members a reduced subscription to the journal Finance and Stochastics, at rate €55 (the same as the special Bernoulli rate to Springer's journal PTRF). This offer can apply to the current year if members wish. Volume 6/1 of Finance and Stochastic appeared in January, but it could be mailed together with 6/2 to interested members.
Upcoming Meetings in 2002 and 2003
Euroworkshop on Statistical Modelling - Model Building and Evaluation
Date: 31 October - 3 November 2002
Place: Schloss Hoehenried, Bernried, near Munich, Germany
Contact: Göran Kauermann (Dept. Statistics, University of Glasgow)
Web-site: http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/euroworkshop/2002.html
The Euroworkshop on Statistical Modelling (EWSM) is a project which is funded by the European Commission (CORDIS) in the programme High Level Scientific Conferences. The project is also connected to the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Topic areas include:
Traditional Model Diagnostic Tools
Graphical Model Diagnostics
Model validation using smoothing techniques
Bayesian Models and their validation, and
Bootstrapping and its role in model evaluation.
The workshop is designed to have lectures from the Keynote Speakers (A. Davison, J. Hart, S. Weisberg) and further contributed presentations. The number of participants is limited to 30, where young researchers are particularly encouraged to participate actively by presenting their work. The major focus is on open discussions and questions and each session is accompanied by a separate discussion round.
Date: 6-9 July 2003
Place: Berkeley, CA
Website: http://icasp9.berkeley.edu/
12th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics
Date: 5-8 August 2003
Place: Dortmund, Germany
Contact: Hans Joachim Werner (U. Bonn)
The 12th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS-2003) will be held at the University of Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) on 5-8 August 2003. This workshop will be hosted by the Department of Statistics a the University of Dortmund. The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between statistics and matrix theory. This workshop will provide a forum through which statisticians may be better informed of the latest developments and newest techniques in matrix theory and may exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries. This workshop will include the presentation of both invited and contributed papers on matrices and statistics; it is expected that many of these papers will be published, after refereeing, in a 'Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics' of Linear Algebra and Its Applications (the 9th Special issue is at the printer with publication expected in early Summer 2002).
International Organising Committee: R. William Farebrother
(Shrewsbury, England, UK), Simo Puntanen (Univ. of Tampere, Finland), George P.H. Styan
(McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; vice-chair), and Hans Joachim Werner (Univ. of Bonn,
Germany; chair).
Local Organising Committee: Jürgen Groß (Univ. of Dortmund, Germany), Götz Trenkler (Univ. of
Dortmund, Germany; chair), C. Weihs (Univ. of Dortmund, Germany).
7th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics
Date: 8-12 August 2003
Place: Tartu, Estonia
Contact: Tőnu Kollo (University of Tartu)The Thirteenth International Conference on Quantitative Methods for the Environmental Sciences and The Twelfth General Meeting of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2003)
Date: 21-24 August 2003
Place: Beijing, China
Website: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ties2003/The 13th European Young Statisticians Meeting
Date: 21-26 September 2003
Place: Ovronnaz, Switzerland
Website: http://statwww.epfl.ch/eysm03IX CLAPEM (Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática)
Date: 10-14 November 2003
Place: Montevideo, Uruguay
Website: http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/clapemXXIX Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications +
VII Brazilian School on ProbabilityDate: 3-9 August 2003
Place: Angra dos Reis, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Website: http://www.impa.br/Conferencias/SpaThe program consists of fifty-minute lectures delivered by invited speakers, twenty-minute contributed talks and posters.
Invited Speakers:
A. Bovier (WIAS, Berlin)
R. Burton (Oregon State University, USA)
C. Burdzy (Univ. of Washington, USA)
P. Ferrari (IME/USP, Brazil)
A. Guionnet (ENS, Lyon, France)
F. Den Hollander (EURANDOM, Netherlands)
D. Ioffe (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
J. Norris (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
H.T. Yau (NYU, New York, USA)
O. Zeitouni (Technion, Haifa, Israel)Courses:
A. Guionnet (ENS, Lyon)
O. Zeitouni (Technion, Haifa)
Scientific Committee:
E. Bolthausen (Univ. Zürich)
C. Burdzy (Univ. of Seattle)
P. Ferrari (IME/USP, Săo Paulo)
M. Keane (Univ. of Amsterdam)
C. Landim (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro), Chairman
M. Ledoux (Univ. Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse)
S. Olla (Univ. de Dauphine)
S.R.S. Varadhan (Courant Institute, NYU)
O. Zeitouni (Univ. Technion, Haifa)Local Committee:
C. Landim (IMPA, Rio)
A. Simonis (USP, Sao Paulo)
S. Volchan (PUC-Rio)
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