The Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics takes place at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, August 12–16, 2024. Local Organizing Committee chair Herold Dehling writes:

Planning of the upcoming Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress on Probability and Statistics is now happening in big steps. All the plenary speakers have been nominated, and the themes, organizers, and speakers for most of the almost 50 Invited Paper Sessions have been selected. These Invited Paper Sessions cover a broad range of topics at the forefront of current research in Probability and Statistics; more details can be found on the webpage of the World Congress, https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/

On the Thursday evening of the World Congress (15 August), the Ruhr University Department of Mathematics will host the Ising Lecture, delivered by Frank den Hollander (Leiden University, The Netherlands). The Ising Lecture is organized in memory of Ernst Ising (1900–98), who spent most of his childhood and youth in Bochum, before he moved as a student first to Göttingen and later to Hamburg. It was in his 1924 Hamburg PhD thesis that Ising studied a model for ferromagnetism introduced in 1920 by his advisor Wilhelm Lenz, and that now bears Ising’s name.

Many researchers have taken the opportunity to contribute to the scientific planning of the conference by proposing Organized Contributed Paper Sessions (OCPS), with four talks devoted to a theme of current research interest. At this point, 37 OCPS on a broad range of topics in the area of Probability and Statistics have been accepted. In reaction to the great success of this initiative, the deadline for the submission of proposals is extended to January: see https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/call-for-papers

The submission of titles and abstracts for contributed papers and posters is also open (February 15 deadline).

Please visit the conference website regularly for updates on the scientific programme as well as details of social activities during the World Congress.

Parents who intend to bring their children to the conference will soon find information about child care that will be provided on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum. Don’t forget you can apply to the IMS Child Care Initiative for help with these costs (deadline June 1): see information at https://imstat.org/meetings/ims-child-care-initiative/