The Bernoulli Society is a

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that aims to further the progress of

probability Probability is a branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an e ...

and mathematical

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, founded as part of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

in 1975. It is named after the

Bernoulli family The Bernoulli family ( ; ; ) of Basel was a Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician family, notable for having produced eight mathematically gifted academics who, among them, contributed substantially to the development of mathematics and physic ...

of mathematicians and scientists, whose researchers covered "most areas of scientific knowledge". The society publishes two journals, '' Bernoulli'' and ''

Stochastic Processes and their Applications ''Stochastic Processes and Their Applications'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier for the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The editor-in-chief is Eva Löcherbach. The principal focus o ...

'', and a newsletter, '' Bernoulli News''. Additionally, it co-sponsors several other journals including ''

Electronic Communications in Probability The ''Electronic Communications in Probability'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. The editor-in-chief is Patrícia Gonçalves. It contains short arti ...

'', ''

Electronic Journal of Probability The ''Electronic Journal of Probability'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. It covers all aspects of probability theory and the current editor-in-chief ...

'', ''

Electronic Journal of Statistics The ''Electronic Journal of Statistics'' is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. It covers all aspects of statistics (theoretical, computational, and applie ...

'', ''

Probability Surveys ''Probability Surveys'' is an open-access electronic journal that is jointly sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It publishes review articles on topics of interest in probability theory. Managing Edito ...

'', and ''

Statistics Surveys ''Statistics Surveys'' is an open-access electronic journal, founded in 2007, that is jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada ...

''.

Presidents of the Bernoulli Society

A list of the presidents of the society from its foundation to the current day. * 1975

David George Kendall David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic lif ...

* 1975

David Blackwell David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the ...

* 1977 Klaus Krickeberg * 1979 David Cox * 1981

Pál Révész Pál Révész (6 June 1934 – 14 November 2022), anglicized as Pal Revesz, was a Hungarian mathematician known for his research in probability and mathematical statistics, including the mathematical foundations of the law of large numbers, theory ...

* 1983 Elizabeth Scott * 1985

Chris Heyde Christopher Charles Heyde (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics. Heyde was a professor at Columbia Universi ...

* 1987 Willem van Zwet * 1989

Albert Shiryaev Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (; born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics. Career He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957. From ...

* 1991

Peter J. Bickel Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Bickel has made contributions to Bootstrapping (statistics), bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and ...

* 1993

Ole Barndorff-Nielsen Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen (18 March, 1935 – 26 June, 2022) was a Danish statistician who has contributed to many areas of statistical science. Education and career He was born in Copenhagen, and became interested in statistics when, as a ...

* 1995

Jozef Teugels Jozef Lodewijk Maria Teugels, or Jozef L. Teugels, Jef Teugels (born February 20, 1939) is a Belgian mathematical statistician and actuary. His main contributions are in extreme value theory, stochastic processes, and reinsurance theory. Educa ...

* 1997 Louis Chen * 1999

David Siegmund __NOTOC__ David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941) is an American statistician who has worked extensively on sequential analysis.

* 2001 Peter G. Hall * 2003 Donald A. Dawson * 2005

Peter Jagers Peter Jagers (born 1941) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology who made lasting contributions in probability and general branching processes. Jagers was first vice pr ...

* 2007

Jean Jacod Jean Jacod (born 1944) is a French mathematician specializing in stochastic processes and probability theory. He has been a professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. He has made fundamental contributions to a wide range of topics in p ...

* 2009 Victor Perez-Abreu * 2011 Edward C. Waymire * 2013 Wilfrid Kendall * 2015 Sara van de Geer * 2017

Susan Murphy Susan Allbritton Murphy (born April 16, 1958) is an American statistician, known for her work applying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at Harvard University, ...

* 2019

Claudia Klüppelberg Claudia Klüppelberg (born May 23, 1953) is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technica ...

* 2021

Adam Jakubowski Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam sin ...

* 2023 Victor Panaretos * 2025

Nancy Reid Nancy Margaret Reid (born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian In ...

References

External links

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
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