The 9th World Congress in Probability and Statistics finalized featuring the latest scientific developments in these areas and their applications. Showing its growing importance, the meeting brought together some leading mathematicians.
Special lectures were scheduled in the program:
- Wald Lecture: Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
- Rietz Lecture: Bin Yu (UCB)
- Doob Lecture: Scott Sheffield (MIT)
- Schramm Lecture: Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann)
- Laplace Lecture: Byeong Park (Seoul National University)
- Bernoulli Lecture: Valerie Isham (University College of London)
- Kolmogorov Lecture: Ruth Williams (UCSD)
- Lévy Lecture: Servet Martínez (Universidad de Chile)
- Tukey Lecture: David Brillinger (UCB)
- Ethel Newbold Prize Lecture: Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine)
- Plenary Lecture: Martin Hairer (Warwick)
IMS Medallion Lectures were held by Frank den Hollander (Leiden), Vanessa Didelez (Bristol), Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford), Arnaud Doucet (Oxford), and Pierre del Moral (UNSW).
There were also 40 invited sessions, four contributed sessions, 154 contributed talks and 14 poster sessions. Gia Bao Nguyen, postdoc at Universidad de Chile’s Center for Mathematical Modeling, joined in one of these last sessions.
Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics organized this Congress at the University of Toronto’s Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Canada, from July 11th to 15th, 2016.
Istanbul, Turkey (2012), Singapore (2008), Barcelona, Spain (2004), Guanajuato, Mexico (2000), Vienna, Austria (1996), Chapel Hill, United States (1994), Uppsala, Sweden (1990), and Tashkent, former Soviet Union, current Uzbekistan (1986) hosted previous versions.
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