Pre-Meeting for Young Researchers of the BS–IMS World Congress 2024

The Pre-Meeting for Young Researchers of the BS–IMS World Congress 2024 took place from August 10–11 at Campus Essen of the University of Duisburg–Essen. The meeting hosted over 90 PhD students and postdocs with backgrounds in statistics, probability and data science. The program featured a scientific day with lectures by Emmanuel Candès, Remco van der Hofstad and Susan Murphy, and a career day with several panels and workshops on diversity, career planning and the publishing process. More than 30 young researchers also presented their work in two poster sessions.

During the event, the participants were extremely engaged in the discussions and happily used the opportunity to connect with each other and with the world-renowned speakers. Among other things, they particularly appreciated the quality of the lectures and the opportunity to learn from the panel members’ personal experiences in academia.

The meeting was generously supported by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS, with additional funding from the DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik and the Faculty of Mathematics at University of Duisburg–Essen. This funding supported eight scholarships for young researchers from low-income countries and the accommodation of more than 50 participants.

The organizers were Mona Azadkia, Thomas Berrett, Axel Buecher, Andressa Cerqueira, Imma Curato, Sebastian Engelke, Zhenhua Lin, and Anita Winter.

See the program and abstracts at https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/young-researchers-pre-meeting.