Myrto Lefkopoulou High-School Com-
petition Award in Probability: This award
is presented annually to the high-school
student with the best score in a special
competition in probability, which is part
of the annual Pan-Hellenic Mathematics
Competition, “Archimedes,” organized by
the Hellenic Mathematical Society.
Best Statistics Paper Award for Young
Statisticians: Presented to a young
statistician with the best paper during the
GSI annual conference, this award was
proposed and granted by N. Balakrishnan
of McMaster University, who is an
honorary member of GSI.
GSI Activities
The Annual General Assembly of GSI is
held every February prior to the annual
Kyriakos Mattheou, recipient of the 2007 Best Statistics Paper Award for Young Statisticians, and
cocktail, which is traditionally organized in
members of the GSI Council (from left) Charalmbos Charalambides, Takis Papaioannou, Stratis
the downtown Athens offices of the institute
Kounias, and Tasos Christofides (chair of the local organizing committee)
to celebrate the coming of the New Year.
One of the major annual activities is the
organization of GSI’s annual conference in
association with an academic institution.
The objective is to provide a meeting point
Statisticians who participated in the
for Greek researchers in statistics and a forum
(GSI2007) Greek Annual Conference
for presenting their results in various subjects
in statistics. It is mainly a Greek event; how-
ever, in recent years, there has been an effort
to enhance the international dimension of
Guido Consonni Marlos Viana the conference by inviting statisticians from
(University of Pavia) (University of Illinois) other countries. The conference is a four-day
event, commencing on the first Wednesday
Marie Husková George G. Roussas
following orthodox Easter Sunday and con-
(Charles University of Prague) cluding the following Saturday with the sec-
Emmanuel Lesaffre
ond annual general assembly.
Stephen Walker
The 2007 conference was organized
(University of Bath)
Ya’acov Ritov
in collaboration with the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics of the University
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Aris Perperoglou
of Cyprus. At the opening session, the rep-
(McMaster University)
Alexandros Gryparis resentative of the Ambassador of Greece
Michael A. Stephens
in Cyprus, the rector of the University of
Brent A. Coull
Cyprus, the president of GSI, and the chair
(Simon Fraser University)
of the local organizing committee welcomed
Hans C. van Houwelingen
Viatcheslav B. Melas
about 200 participants, 85 of which were
(St. Petersburg State University)
Kyriacos Mattheou
students. A total of 92 talks were delivered,
including three invited plenary lectures.
The papers presented were an interest-
ing mix of theoretical and applied topics.
A conference volume of the full papers is
expected to be published by GSI early next
year. A photo gallery and other details are
available at
www.ucy.ac.cy/~esi2007 and
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