The Mitchell Prize committee invites nominations for the 2006 Mitchell Prize. The Prize is currently awarded every other year in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem. The Prize is jointly sponsored by the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS), the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), and the Mitchell Prize Founders' Committee, and consists of an award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque. The 2006 Prize selection committee members are Tony O'Hagan (chair), Dave Higdon and Marina Vannucci.
The Mitchell Prize is named after Toby J. Mitchell and was established by his friends and colleagues following his death from leukemia in 1993. Toby was a Senior Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory throughout his career, with leaves of absence spent at the University of Wisconsin and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Toby won the Snedecor Award in 1978 (with co-author Bruce Turnbull), made incisive contributions to statistics, especially in biometry and engineering applications, and was a marvelous collaborator and an especially thoughtful scientist. Toby was a dedicated Bayesian, hence the focus of the prize.
Eligible papers for the 2006 Prize must have appeared in a refereed journal or conference proceedings during the years 2003, 2004 or 2005. The selection committee strongly encourages electronic submissions of the papers being nominated. Entries must be sent to:
Anthony O'Hagan
Professor of Statistics
Department of Probability and Statistics
University of Sheffield
Hicks Building
Sheffield S3 7RH
UK
E-mail: a.ohagan@sheffield.ac.uk
Entries must be received by 1 February, 2006. Authors may nominate themselves. The award will be presented at the 2006 Valencia Meeting.
A Complete entry consists of the following:
- Electronic file of the paper (.ps, .pdf or .doc) being nominated. Alternatively, 4 copies of the manuscript or reprint should be sent via post.
- A brief statement by the nominator describing the impact of the work.
- Names of two evaluators, not the nominator or coauthors, who are willing and able to credibly evaluate the usefulness of the work from the perspective of the applied field addressed in the paper as distinct from providing comments on its statistical merit.
- Contact information for nominee, nominator (if different) and evaluators noted above.
Complete details about the Prize and the nomination process are provided in the Mitchell Prize Charter that can be obtained from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis website under ISBA awards. Note that the guidelines for the 2006 Mitchell Prize are slightly different than previous years.
Nominations for the 2006 award must be received by Friday, 6th January 2006. Only books published during the 5 year period ending December 31, 2004 are eligible for consideration for the prize this year. There is no restriction on publisher or country of publication. Books authored or co-authored by members of the selection committee are ineligible for consideration. The winner of the 2006 DeGroot Prize will be announced at the Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June, 2006.
Letters of nomination should be submitted electronically to the chair of the selection committee:
Professor Steffen L. Lauritzen
Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
email: cstone@stats.ox.ac.uk.
Nominations should include the name of the author(s) and the book, the date of publication, and a very brief one to two sentence supporting statement. If the book does not include any biographical information on the author(s), then a brief one-paragraph biographical statement for each author would be helpful.
Copies of the nomination letter and the book should be sent directly to each of the committee members.
See the DeGroot Prize link under Awards on the sidebar for more details, such as the addresses of the committee members.
Application Methodology Award
Shane Jensen, Statistical Techniques for Examining Gene Regulation
(winner)
Jesus Palomo, Bayesian Methods in Bidding Processes (honorable mention)
Theory and Methods Award
Mario Trotinni, Decision Models for Data Disclosure Limitation (honorable mention)
Ramses Mena, Stationary Models using Latent Structures (honorable mention)
More information on this meeting can be obtained here.
The statements can be found here.
The announcement for the 2005 award, and in particular how to submit a thesis for consideration, can be obtained under ISBA Awards - The Savage Award on this site or directly from here.
The ISBA board has announced a policy on the formation of Sections. Details on this can be obtained from the Sections link on the sidebar of this website.
Details concerning how to enter a paper to be considered for this can be found at The Mitchell Prize .
Here is a link to a list of recent references to Bayesian analysis in a variety of publications and contexts. This list was compiled by Professor Arnold Zellner and he has kindly made this available.
Progic2005: second workshop on Combining Probability and Logic special focus: Objective Bayesianism Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, 6th-8th July 2005 http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/ You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the workshop and publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Computation. There is a clear connection between probability and logic: both appear to tell us how we should reason. But how, exactly, are the two concepts related? Objective Bayesianism offers one answer to this question. According to objective Bayesianism, probability generalises deductive logic: deductive logic tells us which conclusions are certain, given a set of premises, while probability tells us the extent to which one should believe a conclusion, given the premises (certain conclusions being awarded full degree of belief). According to objective Bayesianism, the premises objectively (i.e. uniquely) determine the degree to which one should believe a conclusion. The aim of this workshop is to explore the connections between probability and logic, and in particular to evaluate aspects of the connection forged by objective Bayesianism. The workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary: the themes of the workshop are relevant to mathematicians, logicians, philosophers, computer scientists, psychologists and engineers, for example. Further details: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/
The 2004 winner of the DeGroot Prize is The Bayesian Choice: From Decision-Theoretic Foundations to Computational Implementation (2nd edition) by Christian P. Robert, and published by Springer-Verlag in 2001. Prize winners receive a plaque and a check for $1,500. The winner was announced on May 27 at the ISBA 2004 banquet in Viña Del Mar, Chile.
Robert's book was selected from 22 stellar submissions; the entries represented the full spectrum of topics in statistical science including introductions to probability and statistics (Bayesian and non-Bayesian), historical books, non-Bayesian methods, through to applications of Bayesian methods in astrophysics, biology, data mining, finance, and risk assessment. The selection committee believes that Robert's book sets a new standard for modern textbooks dealing with Bayesian methods, especially those using MCMC techniques, and that it is a worthy successor to DeGroot's and Berger's earlier texts.
The members of the selection committee were: Kathryn Chaloner, Stephen Fienberg (chair), Ed George, Steffen Lauritzen, and Sylvia Richardson.
President - Sylvia Richardson
Executive-Secretary - Deborah Ashby
Board - Brad Carlin, Merlise Clyde, David Higdon, David Madigan
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all who participated.
The election has now ended. The results will be announced shortly.
These statements can be accessed here . Shortly members will be sent instructions concerning online voting.
See the announcement for this meeting here.
The announcement for this meeting can be found here.
Read the announcement here.
Details can be found at International Workshop/Conference on Bayesian Statistics and its Applications, January 6-8, 2005, Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, India.
Details concerning this years competition can be found at Savage Prize Announcement.
Jeff Morris, Marina Vanucci, Phil Brown and Ray Carroll for the paper Wavelet-Based Nonparametric Modeling of Hierarchical Function in Colon Carcinogenesis.
Theory and Methods Award
Nicolas Chopin Applications des Méthodes de Monte Carlo
Séquentielles à la Statistique Bayésienne
Application Methodology Award
Marc Suchard Model Building and Selection in Bayesian Phylogenetic Recons
truction
Date: June 13-16, 2004
Location: The Conference Center of University of Rome "La Sapienza2"
Via Salaria 113, Rome, Italy
Organizing Committee: Jim Berger, Paul Damien, J.K. Ghosh, Nils Hjort,
Sonia Petrone, Gabriella Salinetti, Stephen Walker.
The ISBA Board has approved the creation of a new journal called Bayesian Analysis with Rob Kass as founding Editor-in-Chief. Preparations are now underway to start-up the journal sometime in late 2004.
It is a great pleasure to announce that the ISBA 2004 World Meeting will be held in Chile in May of 2000. It is scheduled from 23 - 27 May 2004 in Viña Del Mar at the Hotel Del Mar Convention Center.
The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Pilar Iglesias, Pontifica U. Catolica de Chile (pliz@mat.pu.cl) and Fernando Quintana, also Pontifica U. Catolica de Chile (Quintana@mat.puc.cl. The Scientific Committee is chaired by Fabrizio Ruggeri of CNR IMATI (fabrizio@mi.imati.cnr.it). The Finance Committee is chaired by Alicia Carriquiry from Iowa State University (alicia@iastate.edu).
Please plan to join us for a major international Bayesian gathering that will maintain the tradition of providing an exciting scientific environment along with a glorious physical environment. More details will emerge over the next few months and will be made available on the ISBA website (www.bayesian.org).
Entrants now have until May 2, 2003 to submit.
This meeting will be held in Jackson Hole, WY., August 3 - 8, 2003. The website for the meeting is available at http://maxent23.org/.
The announcement for this competition can be found under ISBA Awards - The Mitchell Prize.
These have now been posted under Elections.
The web page for this conference is located at http://www.upct.es/bisp03/.
The first joint statistical meeting of IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) will be held in Isla Verde (San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA) on July 24-27, 2003.
The meeting will evolve around three main topics of interest to both IMS and ISBA members: Causal-Graphical Modeling; Spatial Statistics and Analysis of Extremes. The format of the meeting includes overview lectures in the topics, invited talks, and poster sessions. For more details, please visit:
http://www.cnnet.clu.edu/math/IMS-ISBA-PR2003/
Dates: July 24-July 26 2003
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Isla Verde, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Arrival and reception: Weds July 23 2003
Departure:
Sunday July 27
Savage Prize Announcement for 2002
The Board has approved the following change to bylaw C6: the deadline date for submitting theses for the Savage Prize is now October 31.
A report on this regional meeting of ISBA can be read here.
Details concerning this meeting can be found at http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~xian/OBayes03.html.
The winner of the 2002 DeGroot Prize, in recognition of a published book in statistical science, is Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid, Steffen Lauritzen, and David J. Spiegelhalter (1999). Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems. Springer-Verlag, New York. The award, consisting of plaques and $1,500, was presented to the authors on June 6th, 2002 at the final banquet of the Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Click here (.pdf file) for the full text of the announcement.
For details look under Future Meetings.
ISBA, together with Eurostat, has produced a volume containing selected papers from the Sixth World Meeting of ISBA held in Crete in June, 2000. The full volume is available from the ISBA website (http://www.bayesian/org and look under Proceedings on the sidebar). A hardcopy will be mailed to all meeting participants.
These are now posted under Elections.
The 1st ISBASA Workshop will take place 3, 4 and 5 April 2002 at the University of Stellenbosch, (50 km from Cape Town) South Africa. It is an official activity of the Southern Africa ISBA Chapter and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of Stellenbosch University will host it. More information about the workshop and the South African Chapter can be found under Local Chapters.
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) is pleased to announce two L. S. Savage Awards of $750 each for 2001: * Theory and Methods Savage Award for a dissertation that makes important original contributions to the foundations, theoretical developments, and/or general methodology of Bayesian analysis. * Applied Methodology Savage Award for a dissertation that makes outstanding contributions with novel Bayesian analysis of a substantive problem that has potential to impact statistical practice in a field of application.
The Savage Awards are cosponsored by the American Statistical Association Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Trustees of the L. J. Savage Memorial Fund, and NBER/NSF Seminars on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics.
A dissertation may be nominated by the author, by the advisor or other reader, by the department chair or professor, or by any ISBA member. A dissertation may be nominated for only one year's awards. Nomination is made by submission of the dissertation and a letter that describes the main theoretical, methodological, and/or applied contributions of the thesis and specifies the award it is for (Theory and Methods or Applied Methodology). Nomination letter and thesis should be sent as e-mail attachments to Ehsan S. Soofi, esoofi@uwm.edu. Please use the following formats: "nominatorname_candidatename.ps" (or pdf) for nomination letter; "candidatename_t.ps" (or pdf) for Theory Methods Award; "candidatename_a.ps" (or pdf) for Application Methodology Award. Hard copy submission may be accepted only under exceptional circumstances by sending two hard copies of the dissertation to Ehsan S. Soofi, School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 742, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA; for special mail carriers use 3202 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.
Nominations for the 2001 Savage Awards must be received by December 31, 2001.
The theses will be evaluated by an evaluation committee. Winners will be announced August 2002 at the Bayesian reception of the Joint Statistical Meeting, New York, USA.
The winners of 2000 Theory and Methods Savage Award are Peter Hoff (supervisor Mike Newton, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) and Tzee-Ming Huang (supervisor Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon) and the winner of 2000 Applied Methodology Savage Award is Jeremy Oakley (supervisor Tony O'Hagan, U. of Sheffield). The winner of an "honorable mention" ($100) for Applied Methodology is Tim Hanson (supervisor Wesley Johnson, U. of California, Davis). Drs. Huang, Oakley, and Hanson summarized their dissertations at the Savage Award Session of the 2001 Joint Statistical Meeting, Atlanta, USA, August 2001. Members of the 1999 Savage Thesis Evaluation Committee were: Siddhartha Chib (Chair), Washington University, St. Louis, Susie Bayarri, University of Valencia, Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota; Mike Evans, University of Toronto, Dave Higdon, Duke University, and Steve MacEachern, Ohio State University.
The DeGroot Prize, established in 2000, will be awarded in recognition of a published book in statistical science. The Prize is intended to recognize a book addressing fundamental issues of statistical inference, decision theory and/or statistical applications, and including teaching texts at any level. Books nominated for the Prize will be judged on the extent to which they represent important, timely, thorough, and notably original contributions to the statistics literature. For additional information on the prize and the selection process, see http://www.bayesian.org/awards/awards.html.
The DeGroot Prize is named for Morris ("Morrie") H. DeGroot, and recognizes the impact and importance of his work in statistics and decision theory, especially in the form of monographs and textbooks,and his marked influence on the evolution of the discipline over several decades through his personal scholarship, educational, and professional leadership. Additional background on Morrie DeGroot is include at the end of this call for entries.
The Prize is administered by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and consists of $1500 and a plaque. The Prize is awarded every two years; the first DeGroot Prize will be awarded at the Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics in June of 2002. Nominations for this first award must be received by December 31, 2001.
Only books published between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 2000 are eligible for consideration for the prize this year. There is no restriction on publisher or country of publication. Books authored or co-authored by members of the selection committee are ineligible for consideration.
Instructions for submitting a nomination can be obtained from the chair
of the selection committee:
Professor Stephen E. Fienberg
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa 15213
fienberg@stat.cmu.edu
Morris ("Morrie") H. DeGroot was born on June 8, 1931 in Scranton,Pennsylvania. He graduated from Roosevelt University in mathematics,and then studied statistics at the University of Chicago. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and was appointed founding Head of the Department of Statistics in 1966. Morrie spent the rest of his career as a member of the department. He died on November 2, 1989.
Morrie led an unusually active and productive academic life. He wrote
three books, edited four volumes (three as a member of the Valencia
Meeting organizing committee), and authored over one hundred papers.
He served as Theory and Methods Editor of the Journal of the American
Statistical Association, and was the recipient of several awards. But
Morrie's influence in statistics went far beyond what any list of accomplishments
and recognitions might indicate.
All who came in contact with Morrie were affected not only by his wisdom and the force of his arguments, but also by his diligence, thoroughness, integrity and good humor. His quick wit could equally well deliver an illuminating insight or a well-timed joke. He was greatly admired and respected within the profession, and many who worked with him or studied under his guidance were inspired by hiis ingenious, imaginative, persistent and passionate intellect.
Morrie's book, Optimal Statistical Decisions, helped educate a generation of statisticians and is one of the great books in the field. Published in 1970 and subsequently translated into both Russian and Polish, it provided an elegant and comprehensive treatment of a subject that has since come to be recognized as an essential part of statistics and of science as a whole. In 1975, his undergraduate text Probability and Statistics was published. A model of what a textbook should be, it played an important role in mathematical statistics curricula throughout the country. These books served as the inspiration for the creation of the DeGroot Prize.
2002 MITCHELL PRIZE
The Mitchell Prize, sponsored jointly by the SBSS, the ISBA and the Founders Committee, is given annually in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem. The Prize includes an award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque. It is given in memory of Toby Mitchell who spent the bulk of his professional career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories on applied problems in biology and engineering, and who argued often and persuasively for a Bayesian approach to solving them.
The 2002 Committee, consisting of Rod Little, Tony O'Hagan and Henry Wynn (Chair), seeks nominations for the Prize that will be awarded at the ISBA Meeting in June of 2002. Complete details about the Prize and the nomination process are provided in the Mitchell Prize Charter which can be obtained from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis website (www.bayesian.org) under ISBA awards. Entries for the 2002 prize should be sent to:
Professor Henry Wynn
Email: H.P.Wynn@warwick.ac.uk
To be received by 1st February, 2002
The candidate statements are now available (under Elections on the sidebar) for the upcoming 2001 ISBA election. The election will start on October 15 with all ballots returned by November 15. More details will be available soon on this site concerninghow the voting will be conducted.
Hello everyone,
The Valencia 7 Meeting on Bayesian Statistics will be held in the Canary Islands (Spain) in June 2002. In addition to the usual strong program of invited lectures, invited discussions, and posters, this meeting will also feature oral presentation of Selected Contributed Papers (SCP). The papers to be presented orally will be selected from among those submitted to the SCP Selection Committee by October 15, 2001.
You can read more about the meeting including the SCP competition at the Valencia web site (www.uv.es/~bernardo/valenciam.html) or the mirror site at Duke Univ, USA (www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7).
SCP extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically to a Conference Management Web Site at Microsoft. Instructions can be found at the Valencia web site (see Future Meetings on the sidebar).
Thanks.
Hal Stern (Chair, SCP Selection Committee)
Dear Colleague,
Registration for Valencia 7, the 7th VALENCIA INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON BAYESIAN STATISTICS (June 2nd - June 6th, 2002, Canary Islands, Spain) is now open. Current information on the meeting is available at http://www.uv.es/valencia7 or its US mirror site http://www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7
Since the meeting is residential, the number of places is strictly limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first come first served basis.
For your convenience, I attach a copy of the registration form if .pdf format. This is also available on the conference web site.
I hope to be able to welcome you to Tenerife next June.
Best wishes, Jose.
The Nominations Committee has chosen the following candidates for the 2001 elections.
President Elect 2002 (progressing to President 2003, and Past President 2004):
Ed George - UPenn, USA
Jay Kadane - CMU, USA
Treasurer (2002-4):
Peter Mueller - MD Anderson Cancer Center and Duke University, USA
Steve MacEachern - Ohio State, USA
Directors (2002-4):
Caitlin Buck - Sheffield, UK
Pilar Iglesias - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Jun Liu - Harvard, USA
Helio Migon - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sonia Petrone - Insubria, Italy
Dale Poirier - UC Irvine, USA
Fabrizio Ruggeri - CNR IAMI, Italy
Robert Wolpert - Duke, USA
Additional nominations may be made by petition of the membership. Such petitions are presented to the Executive Secretary by September 15. It requires the request of 30 ISBA members or 10% of the membership, whichever is less, to nominate by petition. Written consent of the nominee(s) is also required. Email to the Executive Secretary is an acceptable method of petitioning.
Details concerning the submission process can be found at:
Special Contributed Papers at Valencia 7
Dear Colleague,
The Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, sponsored by the Universitat de Valencia and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), is dedicated to former Conference President Professor Dennis V. Lindley. It will take place from June 2nd to June 6th, 2002, inclusive. As on previous occasions it will be a residential conference in a coastal resort: Playa de las Americas, on the South Coast of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands -- a Spanish province in the Atlantic Ocean. For information on this very special place, see http://www.canarias-digital.org/turismo. The conference venue is the Mare Nostrum Resort, an impressive five star complex by the beach, complete with conference rooms, spa center and casino. You can see the resort virtually at http://www.expogrupo.com/marenostrum.htm
The V7 Programme Committee consists of Susie Bayarri, Jim Berger, Phil Dawid, David Heckerman, Adrian Smith, Mike West and Jose Bernardo, who also acts as Local Organizer. The programme will include one stream of 25 invited lectures followed by invited discussions, a second stream of 50 contributed talks, and (it is expected) over 150 contributed papers in poster form.
The invited programme is now complete, and posted at the conference web site http://www.uv.es/valencia7 and at its US mirror site, http://www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7
As in previous Valencia meetings, contributed papers will mainly be presented in the very popular plenary evening poster sessions. Space of about one square meter per paper will be provided. Electronic submission of a text-only abstract of about 250 words long, sent to me will be required before May 1st, 2002. Prior registration for the meeting by at least one of the authors will be required.
The scientific program of the conference will include, for the first time in a Valencia meeting, Selected Contributed Papers (SCPs), to be presented in oral sessions. The SCPs will be selected from among submissions received, before October 15th, 2001, by a SCP Selection Committee appointed by ISBA. Unselected contributed papers will be eligible for poster presentation. The deadline for poster submissions is May 1, 2002. Detailed instructions for submitting abstracts will shortly be posted on the conference website and on the ISBA web site at http://www.bayesian.org/. For both SCP and poster submissions, at least one author must have registered for the meeting by the relevant deadline.
The Conference will be preceded by a one-day postgraduate tutorial seminar on "Basic Concepts in Bayesian Statistics". This will consist of five 90 minute lectures given by members of the Organizing Committee.
Delegates will be expected to arrive on the afternoon/evening of Saturday June 1st, (opening ceremony Sunday morning) and leave on the morning of Friday June 7th (farewell dinner Thursday night). The closest international airport is the Reina Sofia Tenerife Sur airport (TFS), only 10 minutes drive away. This is well connected to the Spanish mainland and to many European cities, and has scheduled flights to some American airports, such as Caracas or Buenos Aires. Early booking is advised. Transportation between TFS airport and the conference venue will be provided. Note that there is a second, smaller, airport north of the island, the Los Rodeos Tenerife Norte airport (TFN); this is about 50 km north of the conference venue. Transportation to/from Tenerife North will not be provided.
The registration fee (which will include transportation to/from Tenerife South airport, the farewell dinner, and several other items) will be about 200/100 EUR for delegates/accompanying persons. The accommodation cost for the full period, including breakfast and dinner (with wine), but no lunch, will be about 850/620 EUR on single/double room occupancy basis (at present time, 1 EUR =0.86 US$). Final costings will depend on the outcome of negotiations with sponsors, now under progress. Registration forms will be posted on the conference web page by the end of August.
The organizing committee will shortly be submitting grant proposals for travel support for junior researchers and colleagues from developing countries. Application forms for financial support will eventually be posted on the conference web page.
If you may be interested in attending Valencia 7, or if you just want to be included in the conference mailing list, and did not attend Valencia 6 (or have moved since Valencia 6), please send to the local organizer, jose.m.bernardo@uv.es the following information:
Name:
Affiliation:
Postal address:
Telephone:
Fax:
Internet address:
Web address:
Area(s) of interest within Bayesian Statistics:
Further information and updates at the conference web site, http://www.uv.es/valencia7, and its US mirror site, http://www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7.
All the best, Jose.
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Bernardo, Universidad de Valencia
Dept. Estadistica, Fac. Matematicas, 46100-Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Tel. +34.96.364.3560 (direct) or +34.96.386.4362 (office)
Fax: +34.96.364.3560 (direct) or +34.96.386.4735 (office)
E-Mail: jose.m.bernardo@uv.es
Personal Web Page: http://www.uv.es/~bernardo
Valencia 7 Web Page: http://www.uv.es/valencia7
This year's Nominating Committee has recently been appointed by the ISBA Board. Its task is to put forward to the membership two or more nominees for each vacancy that will arise as from 1 January 2002, namely: President-Elect, Treasurer (to replace Valen Johnson), and four members of the Board of Directors (to replace Mark Berliner, Petros Dellaportas, Jayanta Ghosh and Sylvia Richardson). The procedures of the Committee are governed by Section D of the ISBA By-laws, which are displayed on the ISBA website at {\tt http://www.bayesian.org/}
The composition of the Nominating Committee is as follows:
Philip Dawid (Chair, University College London, UK)
Gabriel Huerta (CIMAT, Mexico)
Katja Ickstadt (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Rosangela Loschi (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Kerrie Mengersen (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Lawrence Pettit (Goldsmiths College, UK)
Hal Stern (Iowa State University, USA).
If any member of ISBA wishes to make any suggestions as to suitable nominees, please do so, with a supporting statement, by e-mail to Philip Dawid ({\tt dawid@stats.ucl.ac.uk}) as soon as possible.
After the Nominating Committee has drawn up its list, there will be an opportunity for members to petition to add futher candidates.
The ISBA Board has selected the following individuals to serve on
the Nominations Committee to select candidates for the upcoming
election:
Phil Dawid, University College, UK (Chair)
Gabriel Huerta, CIMAT, Mexico
Katja Ickstadt, U Darmstadt, Germany
Rosangela Loschi, U Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Kerrie Mengersen, U Newcastle, Australia
Lawrence Pettit, Goldsmiths College, UK
Hal Stern, Iowa State U, US
The Brazilian Section of ISBA, co-sponsored by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE), is organizing the First Latin American Meeting on Bayesian Statatistics (I COBAL).
The I COBAL will take place from Sunday February 3 to Thursday February 7th, 2002, Ubatuba, Sao Paulo (Brazil). For more details the URL of I COBAL is:
The workshop is held in Marseilles (France), 14-15 June 2001 and organised by Luc Bauwens, Michel Lubrano and Herman van Dijk. All the details can be found on the conference website.
Contact: lubrano@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr
This is being held be held in Varenna (Italy). More details can be found at the conference website.
This is being held be held in Varenna (Italy). More details can be found at the conference website.
Please note that the RSS News incorrectly reported that the first DeGroot Prize will be awarded in 2001. This is not the case. The first prize will be awarded in 2002. The competition will be announced and run later in 2001.
The website now contains a history of ISBA written by one of the society's founders. Look under ISBA Archives for a link to this document.
This conference will be held in the University of La Habana, Cuba, on November 12-16, 2001.
For more information about the conference, please visit the website, or contact Gonzalo Perera, the Chair of the Program Committee at gperera@fing.edu.uy, or Pablo Olivares, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee at clapem@matcom.uh.cu. Except for some of the icons on the home page, the rest of the web site is written in English.
As in the past, we are soliciting travel funds from various US funding agencies. Conditional on availability of funds, we will announce a competition for travel grants for young researchers and advanced graduate students. The competition will be announced within the next two months.
Anyone interested in submitting a contributed paper is encouraged to do so. Because travel to Cuba from the United States is somewhat restricted, those interested in participating in the conference should make travel arrangements with sufficient advance time. Travelers must request a license from the Department of the Treasury for travel to Cuba for the purpose of participating in a conference. Furthermore, a visa from the Cuban pseudo-embassy in Washington is also required. These requirements apply only to travelers from the United States. Those of you traveling from other countries (and with passports issued by other countries!) are likely to encounter significantly fewer hoops to jump through.
For information on how to obtain the license and the visa, please refer to the AAAS website http://shr.aaas.org/rtt/. Instructions written in English for humans (as opposed to official English) and that are easy to follow contain all pertinent information. Again, this applies to those of us residing in the U.S.
Please feel free to contact any of the organizers or myself for additional information. Hope to see lots of you in Cuba this November.
Alicia Carriquiry
A consortium of statistical organisations has established two new professional prizes: the DeGroot Prize and the Lindley Prize, honouring the eminent statisticians Morris H. DeGroot and Dennis Lindley.
The Lindley Prize will be awarded for innovative research in Bayesian Statistics that is accepted for publication as a contributed paper in the refereed proceedings of the Valencia and ISBA international meetings. Award winning papers will present research in Bayesian statistics that is is judged important, timely and notably original; truly innovative work will be judged more highly than successful development of ideas previously exposed. The Lindley Prize may be awarded for work in foundations, theory, methodology and applications of Bayesian statistics.
The DeGroot Prize will be awarded in recognition of a published book in statistical science. Candidates for the DeGroot Prize will be judged on the extent to which the book represents an important, timely, thorough and notably original contribution to the statistics literature, whether textbook or monograph. The DeGroot Prize may be awarded for a book addressing fundamental issues of statistical inference, decision theory and/or statistical applications, and including teaching texts at any level.
Each of the prizes consists of an award of $1500 and a commemorative plaque and is awarded biennially. The first DeGroot Prize will be awarded following the competition in 2001. The first Lindley Prize will be awarded following the competition based on contributed papers in the proceedings of the 7th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, to be held in Spain in 2002.
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), one of the founder organisations, has assumed responsibility for the management and administration of the two awards.
Full details of the two prizes, including the governing charters and the list of founding organisations, can be found at the ISBA website: http://www.bayesian.org/awards/awards.html
The results of the election have been posted at ISBA Business - Elections
Call for Topic Contributed Sessions by Robert Weiss, 2001 Program Chair
It is already time to start thinking about the August 5-9 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings that will take place in Atlanta, GA. Let's make this a good conference for Bayesians. The best way to do this is for many of us to organize topic contributed sessions. Anyone may organize a session. Topic contributed sessions consist of 5 speakers, or 4 speakers and a discussant on some theme. The organizer arranges for speakers and titles and the session chair (often the organizer). Organizers may speak in their own session. All speakers must register for the meetings prior to February 1, 2001. Speakers are allowed to give only one talk or discussion, whether invited, topic contributed or regular contributed.
If you do not arrange for a topic contributed session, and contribute your talk in the usual way, you will end up in a regular contributed session. Topic contributed sessions are much better than regular contributed sessions because each speaker gets 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes, there are 5 speakers instead of as many as 7 in the session, the topics are typically closer together in subject, and attendance is usually higher.
You may contact me, Robert Weiss at robweiss@ucla.edu with any questions or suggestions. Visit the section website at
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jsanchez/sbssnews/sbssnews.html
for updates.
Robert Weiss 2001 Program Chair
This is a call to students who would like to be considered for partial funding to the 2001 JSM in Atlanta. The Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) will consider funding students who wish to present Bayesian papers at the 2001 JSM in Atlanta. Criteria for funding are (i) Student is presenting a talk with Bayesian content at the Atlanta Meetings or has organized a Topic Contributed Session of such talks under the aegis of the SBSS. Savage Award finalists are obviously included. Other applications will be considered on a case by case basis. and (ii) Student is a current member of either SBSS or ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) [Student may apply for membership at the time of application and can then be funded upon proof of membership and submission of travel receipts to the SBSS treasurer after the meeting]. Both criteria must be satisfied. Each application should include brief information about the applicant including: (i) name, (ii) mailing address and email address, (iii) institution and program affiliation, (iv) number of years in program (v) thesis topic, (vi) name of major professor, (vii) title and abstract of the talk to be presented and (viii) itemization of approximate hotel and transportation expenses.
At JSM 2000 we funded all 10 applicants who met the above requirements. Each received up to $300. The awardees were:
* Zhen Chen, Dept. of Statistics, U. of Connecticut
* Sandip Sinharay, Dept. of Statistics, Iowa State
* Alexandra M.Schmidt, Dept. of Probability and Statistics, U. of Sheffield
* Athanasios Kottas, Dept of Statistics, U. of Connecticut
* Russell Steele, Dept. of Statistics, U. of Washington
* Ilaria DiMatteo, Dept. of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
* Raquel Prado, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences , Duke University
* Scott Schmidler, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University
* Suman Bhattacharya, Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA
* Jennifer L. Hill, Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University
This year is expected to be similar, but the final allocation has not been determined. Since limited funds are available, it is possible that SBSS will not be able to fund all requests.
The deadline for RECEIPT of applications is Feb 1, 2001 . Applications should be emailed to the 2001 SBSS Program Chair, Professor Robert Weiss (robweiss@ucla.edu). Appropriate applications after that time will be considered in the order received and on a funding available basis.
Visit the section website at
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~ jsanchez/sbssnews/sbssnews.html
for updates.
The Board has recently passed a resolution to take on the administration of these two new prizes. Details about these prizes can be found at Lindley Prize and DeGroot Prize.
The ISBA Board has passed new bylaws covering membership and dues. For more details on this see section G under ISBA Business - Bylaws.
Petros Dellaportas is the winner of the competition to design a logo for ISBA. The winning logo is displayed at the top of the sidebar on this site. Congratulations to Petros and thanks to all the designers and ISBA members who participated by voting. More details about the competition, and the names of those who submitted entries, can be found under ISBA Logo Competition on the sidebar.
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) is pleased to announce two L.J. Savage Awards of $750 each for 2000.
Theory and Methods Savage Award for a dissertation that makes important original contributions to the foundations, theoretical developments, and/or general methodology of Bayesian analysis.
Applied Methodology Savage Award for a dissertation that makes outstanding contributions with a novel Bayesian analysis of a substantive problem that has the potential to impact statistical practice in a field of application.
A dissertation may be nominated by the author, by the advisor or other reader, by the department chair or professor, or by any ISBA member. A dissertation may be nominated for only one year's awards. Nominations are made by a letter that outlines the main theoretical, methodological, and/or applied contributions of the thesis and submission of two copies of the dissertation to
Professor Ehsan S. Soofi
For special mail carriers use 3202 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA; for electronic submission (postscript or pdf file only) esoofi@uwm.edu.
Nominations for the 2000 Savage Awards must be received by December 31, 2000. The Trustees of the L. J. Savage Memorial Fund have transferred the management of the annual Savage Theses Awards to ISBA. The Savage Fund Committee of ISBA administers the Fund. The committee members are appointed by the ISBA President and include representatives of the original founders of the Award: L. J. Savage Fund Trust Board, the NBER/NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics, and the co-sponsor of the Award: Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association. The theses will be evaluated by an Evaluation Committee appointed by the Savage Fund Committee chair with the advice of the Savage Committee and the consent of the Executive Committee. Winners will be announced August 2001 at the Bayesian reception of the Joint Statistical Meeting, Atlanta, USA.
Look under ISBA Awards for more information on this award.
Candidate statements are now available at ISBA Business - Elections. ISBA members will be emailed a password and a link to an online ballot around November 27, 2000.
The Mitchell Prize committee would like to invite nominations for this year's Mitchell Prize. The Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem. The Prize includes an award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque.
The 2001 Prize selection committee members are Gary Koop (chair), Henry Wynn and Rod Little.
Complete details about the Prize and the nomination process are provided in the Mitchell Prize Charter which can be obtained from the Internationational Society for Bayesian Analysis website (www.bayesian.org) under ISBA awards. Briefly, el igible papers must be published (or forthcoming) in a refereed journal or conference proceedings no earlier than 1 January 1999. Entries must be sent(via post) to:
Gary Koop
Entries must be received by 1 February, 2001. Authors may nominate themselves. A complete entry consists of the following:
i) 4 copies of the manuscript or reprint being nominated,
ii) A brief statement by the nominator describing the impact of the work,
iii) Names of two evaluators, not the nominator or coauthors, who are willing an
d able to credibly evaluate the usefulness of the work from the perspective of t
he applied field addressed in the paper, as distinctfrom providing comments on i
ts statistical merit
iv) Contact information for nominee, nominator (if different) and evaluators not
ed in (iii).
This is a reminder to ISBA members that if they wish to nominate someone to run for a position in the upcoming ISBA elections then according to the bylaws
"Additional nominations may be made by petition of the membership. Such petitions are presented to the Executive Secretary by October 1. It requires the request of 30 ISBA members or 10% of the membership, whichever is less, to nominate by petition. Consent of the nominee(s) is also required. Email to the Executive Secretary is an acceptable method of petitioning."
More information on this meeting can be obtained from the link
http://tsi.enst.fr:80/~moulines/SummerSchool/presentation.html.
A postcript version of this tutorial, presented at ISBA 2000, can be downloaded at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masdd.
The Savage Prize winners were announced at the ASA meeting in Indianapolis this August. The following links to the SBSS site where details are provided about those nominated and the winners.
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jsanchez/sbssnews/awards/savage/savage.html
Also see ISBA Awards for more details on this award and in particular of all the winners in years past.
This meeting is being organized by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) at the University of California, Irvine. Further details can be obtained at the conference website.
The recently passed bylaws are now posted on this website under Bylaws.
A conference on: "Foundation of Statistical Inference: Applications in the Medical and Social Sciences and in Industry and the Interface with Computer Science" will be held at the Congress Center of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem, Israel during 17-21 Dec. 2000. Further information on the conference can be obtained at:
http://www.stat-infer.huji.ac.il
ISBA is endorsing this conference.
See Local Chapters for more details on this.
This meeting is endorsed by ISBA. More details can be found on the conference website.
The Third International Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology will be held in Mexico next September. Further information can be found at
http://uxestad1.iimas.unam.mx:80/tameb/.
Renewed Call For Applications for Travel Support for Statisticans from Developing Countries and Young Investigators -- DEADLINE April 28, 2000.
ISBA is in the process of making partial travel grant awards to a limited number of statisticians from developing countries and young investigators who are planning to present their research work at ISBA 2000. These awards are based on applications submitted earlier this year.
We are currently accepting late applications for travel support until April 28, from those who missed the earlier deadline. Only a limited amount of funds are available at this point and any new awards will be small.
A young investigator is anyone whose Ph.D. (or equivalent academic degree) was completed no earlier than December, 1993, or who is currently working on his/her doctoral dissertation. Young investigators from all countries will be eligible for support.
The application form can be obtained at:
Travel support application form
To apply, print out this form and send the completed form to:
ISBA 2000 Travel Grants
c/o Stephen E. Fienberg
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
FAX: 1- (412) - 268-7828
e-mail: fienberg@stat.cmu.edu
A report (and interesting photo) on this event can be found under Local Chapters.
The following link provides details concerning this conference to be held in London, May 11-12, 2000.
There were 145 ballots returned. Of these 19 were were deemed invalid as no name was placed on the envelope (or inside) that would allow them to be validated as coming from an ISBA member. All names were checked against the membership list. The ballots and envelopes were separated and then the votes were tallied. The counting was carried out by the Executive Secretary.
The results of the elections are:
President-Elect - Alicia Carriquiry
4 Board Members (alphabetical order) - Deborah Ashby, Dani Gamerman, Dalene Stangl, Mark Steel
Once again we had a very impressive list of candidates with all receiving a substantial number of votes. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all for participating.
We are pleased to announce that partial travel support is be available for a limited number of statisticians from developing countries and young investigators who are planning to present their research work at ISBA 2000. Note that the deadline for submission of titles and abstracts for submitting all abstracts in final form is December 31, 1999.
A young investigator is anyone whose Ph.D. (or equivalent academic degree) was completed no earlier than December, 1993, or who is currently working on his/her doctoral dissertation. Young investigators from all countries will be eligible for support.
The application form can be obtained at:
Travel support application form
To apply, print out this form and send the completed form to:
ISBA 2000 Travel Grants
c/o Stephen E. Fienberg
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
FAX: 1- (412) - 268-7828
e-mail: fienberg@stat.cmu.edu
A link has been added on the sidebar to a site for the ISBA Newsletter.
Tony O'Hagan has accepted appointment as ISBA Vice Program Chair for 2000.
A workshop on applied Bayesian methods in econometrics and Forecasting is being held in January 2000. The details are on the website
http://www.isibang.ac.in/eau/abmef.html
Professor Zellner will deliver the keynote address and the Jeffreys
memorial lecture and Professor W.E. Griffiths will deliver the Savage
memorial lecture.There will be other sessions to honour some of the
deceased Bayesians Laplace, Degroot and others.
This is being attended by Graduate students, College teachers,
University junior faculty, applied economists , applied econometricians
and business analysts.
The workshop lectures will be videotaped and put on CD's. We may put it on
the website too.
The workshop is being funded by Indian Statistical Institute, Professor
Leonard J . Savage memorial fund and a few business houses.
Contact:
Surekha Rao
Head, Economic Analysis Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Bangalore 560 059
India
Tel: 91 80 8483 002
Fax: 91 80 8484 265
Tel RES: 91 80 554 3632
e-mail: ksurekha@isibang.ac.in
An announcement concerning this prize can be found at: Mitchell Prize.
Look under Bayesian Statistics to see pictures of Bayes tomb and some interesting information about this burial site. This is all thanks to Professor Tony O'Hagan of Sheffield University.
The candidates in the next elections will be the following (2 for President-Elect and 8 for the Board):
Candidates for President-Elect (alphabetical order)
Alicia Carriquiry (USA)
Luis Pericchi (Venezuela)
Candidates for Board positions (alphabetical order)
Deborah Ashby (UK)
Dani Gamerman (Brasil)
Eduardo Guttierrez-Peña (Mexico)
Irwin Guttman (USA)
David Heckerman (USA)
Elias Moreno (Spain)
Dalene Stangl (USA)
Mark Steel (UK)
For information about the candidates see Candidates for Elected Positions.
For the 1999 Savage Thesis Award Competition, members of the Board of the Professor Leonard J. Savage Memorial Fund, Inc., Professors Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie-Mellon U., Seymour Geisser, U. of Minnesota, Joseph Kadane, Carnegie-Mellon U., Edward Leamer, UCLA, John Pratt, Harvard U., and Arnold Zellner, Pres., U. of Chicago, have decided to institute two Savage Thesis Awards of $750 for the 1999 competition, one for a "mainly theoretical" thesis and the other for a "mainly empirical" thesis. Thesis supervisors are requested to submit two (2) copies of a student's thesis, a short summary of the thesis's main findings and a designation of it, "theoretical" or "empirical" before November 15, 1999 to: Prof. Arnold Zellner, Graduate School of Business, U. of Chicago, 1101 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. The winners of the 1999 competition will be announced at a social function after the Savage Award Session of the Joint Statistical Meetings, August, 2000.
Sponsorship and financial support for the annual Savage Thesis Award competitions are provided by the Professor Leonard J. Savage Memorial Fund, Inc., the NBER-NSF Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics and Statistics, the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association (www. amstat.org) and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (www.bayesian.org)
The Nominations Committee for the 1999 elections has been announced as:
The June issue of the ISBA Newsletter has been mailed.
A website has been created for the ISBA 2000, The Sixth World Meeting of the ISBA. This can be accessed from ISBA 2000 on the sidebar.
The March issue of the ISBA Newsletter is in the mail. The contents of the June issue can be found at: