These lectures are selected jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS.

Doob Lecture

The Doob Lecture is a lecture at the BS/IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics, every four years, that honors Joseph Doob. The lecture should be presented by a person whose contributions have been fundamental to the development of probability or stochastic processes.

This is a joint lecture every four years. For other years, when this is only a Bernoulli Society lecture, please see the Bernoulli Society web page.

2024 Pablo Ferrari
2020 Nicolas Curien
2016 Scott Sheffield
2012 Yves Le Jan

Schramm Lecture

The Schramm Lecture is an annual lecture, jointly sponsored by BS/IMS, that honors Oded Schramm. The Schramm Lecture should be presented by a person whose contributions have been fundamental to the development of probability or stochastic processes.

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2025 Sunder Sethuraman
2024
Nina Holden
2023 Patricia Gonçalves
2022 Louigi Addario-Berry
2021 Russell Lyons
2020 Omer Angel
2019 Stanislav Smirnov
2018 Yuval Peres
2017 Richard Kenyon
2016 Ofer Zeitouni
2015 Michel Ledoux
2014 Terry Lyons
2013 Itai Benjamini