International Conference Ars Conjectandi 1713-2013

Post date: Jun 19, 2013 8:15:28 AM

October 15-16, 2013 | Basel, Switzerland

This conference will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the publication of

Jacob Bernoulli's book "Ars Conjectandi" in 1713. It is organised by the

Swiss Statistical Society (SSS) and co-sponsored by the Bernoulli Society

for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, the Institute of Mathematical

Statistics (IMS) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

The conference will consist of keynote presentations of:

· David Aldous, Berkeley

· Peter Bühlmann, Zurich

· Louis Chen, Singapore

· Hans Föllmer, Berlin

· Tilmann Gneiting, Heidelberg

· Hans-Ruedi Künsch, Zurich

· Xiao-Li Meng, Cambridge

· Fritz Nagel, Basel

· Nancy Reid, Toronto

· Stephen Stigler, Chicago

· Edith Dudley Sylla, Raleigh

· Grace Wahba, Madison

The conference will be combined with the "Swiss Statistics Meeting" to be

held on October 16-18, 2013, in Basel, Switzerland, celebrating the 25th

anniversary of the SSS, the 15th anniversary of its section "Official

Statistics" and the 10th anniversary of its sections "Education and

Research" and "Business and Industry".

Further information, tentative programme and registration are available at