Iosif Pinelis is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.Victor de la Peña is Professor at the Department of Statistics, Columbia University, USA.Rustam Ibragimov is Professor of Finance and Econometrics at Imperial College Business School, UK.Adam Osekowski is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Poland.Irina Shevtsova is Associate Professor at Moscow State University, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.