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2006 Meetings Around the WorldIMS Annual Meeting
July 30 - August 4, 2006 Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program Chairs: Robert Adler and Steve
Lalley (Probability); Sara van de Geer and Guenther Walther
(Statistics); Contributed Papers Chair: Marten Wegkamp; Local
Chair: Maria Eulália Vares, CBPF
JanuaryUniversity of Florida Eighth Annual Winter Workshop on Frontiers of Theoretical Statistics January 13-14, 2006 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA The workshop will focus on recent developments in the field of theoretical statistics. A major purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for the advancement of statistical theory and its potential applications, and to examine areas that are on the cutting edge of statistical research. 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields January 16-18, 2006 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Andrew Burge, Conference Coordinator, statistics@hicstatistics.org FebruaryFebruary 15-16, 2006 RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA Technical Program Chair: Lara Schmidt, Lara_Schmidt@rand.org Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) February 16-20, 2006 St Louis, MO Overall theme: “Grand Challenges, Great Opportunities”. Including Statistics Section (U) Business meeting February 18. MarchICAM 2006 (International Congress on Applications of Mathematics) March 13-17, 2006 University of Chile, Santiago de Chile Please visit website for more info. Frankfurter Stochastik-Tage / German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics March 14-17, 2006 Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main This conference is held every two years by
the Fachgruppe Stochastik of the German Mathematical Society. It
provides a forum for participants from universities, business, and
industry to discuss new results in the area of probability and
statistics.
Conference on Stochastics in Science, In honor of Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen's 71st birthday March 20-24, 2006 CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico Further information, pabreu@cimat.mx Special day on Markov Processes in honor of Erhan Cinlar’s 65th birthday Wednesday March 22, 2006 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Preceding SSP 2006, this special day is dedicated to Erhan Cinlar's contribution to the theory of Markov processes, as a way acknowledge his long lasting influence on the probability community. IMS Representative: Chris Burdzy
Workshop on Statistical Inverse Problems March 23-25, 2006 University of Goettingen, Germany Organizing Committee: Frank Bauer, Nicolai Bissantz, Thorsten Hohage, Axel Munk. Contact: Heike Ahrens, gk1023@math.uni-goettingen 2006 Seminar on Stochastic Processes, SSP March 23-25, 2006 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Invited lectures in the morning, informal parallel sessions and panel discussions in the afternoons of Thursday and Friday. IMS Representative: Chris Burdzy
March 26-29, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Tampa, Florida, USA IMS Co Program Chairs: Michael Kosorok and Jason Fine (UW Madison)
Salford Systems Data Mining 2006 Conference March 29-31, 2006 San Diego, California AprilA Short Course on the Analysis of Panel Data April 5th, 2006 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK For further details please contact Peter Smith, panel@s3ri.soton.ac.uk A Symposium on the Convergence of Methods for Analysis of Panel Data April 6-7, 2006 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK For further details please contact Peter Smith, panel@s3ri.soton.ac.uk April 19-21, 2006 Ghent, Belgium As for the first edition, this international meeting aims to bring together oral health researchers and statisticians interested in the analysis of dental data. The ultimate goal is to stimulate collaboration between the two parties eventually leading to the improvement of the methodological quality of oral health papers and the stimulation of new statistical research useful for the analysis of dental data. Seymour Sherman Lecture and Conference April 21-23, 2006 Indiana University, Bloomington Probability and Statistical Physics. MayConference and Celebration For Leon Gleser and Tom Savits May 5-6, 2006 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Contact: Henry W. Block, hwb@stat.pitt.edu, or Allan R. Sampson, asampson@stat.pitt.edu May 10-13, 2006 DIMACS, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey For more information visit website or email
csna06@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Third Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND3) May 12-13, 2006 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A pair of short courses will also be given on May 11, in conjunction with the workshop. The First International Conference on Mathematical Sciences May 15-17, 2006 Al-Azhar University, Gaza, The Palestinian Authority Contact: Dr. Mahmoud K. Okasha, Head of the Organizing Committee, Al-Azhar University. m.okasha@alazhar-gaza.edu. Workshop on Probabilistic Symmetries and Their Applications May 15-17, 2006 University of Ottawa, Canada Talks will range from theoretical
foundations (highlighting the deep and beautiful mathematical
representations and connections between the various concepts) to
applications (including Bayesian statistics, U-statistics,
empirical processes, population genetics).
Third International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP 2006) May 15-18, 2006 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Information on registration, abstract submission and local contact information is available on the workshop website.
CASI 2006 (Conference of Applied Statistics in Ireland) May 17-19, 2006 Hotel Europe, Killarney, Ireland Invited Speakers: David Brillinger, John
Crowley, David Giltinan, Grace Wahba . Workshop on Frontiers of Statistics May 18-20, 2006 Princeton, NJ IMS Reps: Jianqing Fan, Luisa Fernholz, Hira Koul
Mathematical and Numerical Treatment of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media May 22-26, 2006 University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, USA Lecturer: Zhangxin (John) Chen May 24-27, 2006 Westin Hotel in Pasadena, California, USA The theme is Massive Data Sets and Streams. We look forward to a vibrant program focussing on modern problems related to data and information overload, and what we as professional data analysts can contribute to their solution. Contact: Amy Braverman, Amy.Braverman@jpl.nasa.gov Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC-2006) May 28-31, 2006 The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario For information, contact the Local Arrangements Chair: David Bellhouse, University of Western Ontario, bellhouse@stats.uwo.ca; Scientific program chair: Richard Lockhart, lockhart@sfu.ca International Conference on Statistical Models for Biomedical and Technical Systems May 29-31, 2006 Limassol, Cyprus The Conference provides the forum for
presenting new statistical models and mathematical methods for
Survival Analysis, the Reliability of Engineering and Technical
Systems as well as the Reliability of Biological and Biomedical
Systems.
JuneValencia/ ISBA 8th World Meeting On Bayesian Statistics June 1-7, 2006 Benidorm, Alicante, Spain Co-sponsored by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis and the University of Valencia. Join the Valencia Mailing List by sending a message to valenciameeting@uv.es Joint Summer Research Conferences (AMS-IMS-SIAM) June 4-29, 2006 Snowbird Resort, Utah, USA
PROBASTAT 2006 - Fifth International Conference On Probability and Statistics June 5-9, 2006 Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic The conference sessions will cover the following areas: Regression and Mixed Models, Experimental Design, Time Series,- Statistical Learning (Chair: Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta, Edmonton). Contact: probastat@savba.sk Salford Systems Data Mining 2006 Conference June 5-8, 2006 Sydney, Australia Markov Processes and Related Topics July 10-13, 2006 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin A conference to honor Tom Kurtz on his 65th birthday for his many fundamental contributions to probability theory June 11–16, 2006 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Multiscale methods and statistics Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV June 12-15, 2006 Penn State University, Pennsylvania IMS Rep: G. Jogesh Babu
Cluster Algebras and Applications June 13-17, 2006 North Carolina State University, North Carolina Lecturer: Andrei Zelevinsky The Fifteenth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics June 13-17, 2006 Uppsala, Sweden The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate research, in an informal setting, and to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between matrix theory and statistics.
ICSA 2006 Applied Statistics Symposium June 14–17, 2006 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA Prof Ming-Hui Chen, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, mhchen@stat.uconn.edu Conference on Ordered Statistical Data and Related Topics June 15 - 17, 2006 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Organizers: Prof. N. Balakrishnan, bala@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca and Prof. N. R. Arghami, arghami@math.um.ac.ir Computational and Statistical Aspects of Microarray Analysis (IV) June 18-23 2006 Bressanone-Brixen, Italy The main focus will be on microarray experiments, covering statistical topics such as preprocessing, normalization, quality assessment, gene identification, machine learning and inference for graphs and networks. June 19–23, 2006 Harvard University Harvard faculty members will lecture on topics to include Credit Risk Modeling, Credit Derivative Pricing, Risk Management, Asset Pricing Theory, Continuous-Time Finance Modeling, Extreme Value Theory, Monte Carlo Simulations, Missing Data, Bayesian Inference for Time Series. Conference on stochastic networks June 19–24, 2006 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chair: PR Kumar. Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets June 21-24, 2006 Stanford University, CA Explore novel techniques for modeling and analyzing massive, high-dimensional, and nonlinear-structured data. Biodefense Immune Modeling Symposium June 22-23, 2006 Rochester, NY This symposium aims to promote collaboration between immunologists and mathematical modelers in creating immune response models. For more information contact Hulin Wu, hwu@bst.rochester.edu. 9th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics June 25-30, 2006 Vilnius, Lithuania Aleksandras Plikusas, conf@ktl.mii.lt S4G (Stereology, Spatial Statistics, Stochastic Geometry), 6th International Conference June 26-29, 2006 Prague, Czech Republic Information: Viktor Benes, Radka Juzkova, Department of Probability and Statistics, Charles University, radka.juzkova@svses.cz. Second Cornell Probability Summer School June 26-July 7, 2006 Ithaca, New York, USA Submission date: March 17, 2006
Mid-Atlantic Causal Modeling Conference June 27, 2006 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA This one-day conference is intended to provide a forum for researchers interested in causal modeling and inference to exchange ideas. 2006 WNAR/IMS Western Regional Meeting June 27-30, 2006 Flagstaff, AZ, USA IMS Program Chair: Wolfgang Polonik
JulyJuly 2-7, 2006 Salvador (Bahia), Brazil Theme: Working cooperatively in statistics education. Information: Carmen Batanero, batanero@ugr.es ASC/NZSA 2006: Australian Statistical Conference/New Zealand Statistical Association 2006 July 3-6, 2006 Auckland, New Zealand For further information and registration visit the website or email: statsnz2006@tourhosts.com.au Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics July 4 - 6, 2006 University of Leeds, United Kingdom The 25th LASR workshop will be a special event, not only exploring new and innovative statistical methods and applications in bioinformatics, but also celebrating the history and achievements of the LASR series of workshops. Contact: workshop@maths.leeds.ac.uk International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics July 7 - 8, 2006 Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Samuel Kou
Markov Processes and Related Topics (A conference in honor of Tom Kurtz on his 65th birthday) July 10 - 13, 2006 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Stew Ethier
July 10 - 14, 2006 Leiden, The Netherlands This meeting is split up in a 3-days workshop from Monday July 10 until Wednesday July 12, and a 2-days meeting on Thursday July 13 and Friday July 14 in which a few experts will present their work to young researchers. XXIII International Biometric Conference (IBC2006) July 16-21, 2006 Montreal, Quebec, Canada The International Biometric Conference, sponsored by the International Biometric Society, is held every two years and brings together statisticians and bioscientists interested in the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods for the biological sciences. The conference was held in Berkeley California in 2000, Freiburg Germany [http://www.ibc2002.uni-freiburg.de] in 2002, Cairns Australia [http://www.ozaccom.com.au/cairns2004] in 2004. The International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS 2006) July 16-21, 2006 Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal ICORS is the main meeting devoted to discuss recent results and to present the state-of-the art on robust statistics and related subjects. Email: icors2006@math.ist.utl.pt 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications July 17-21, 2006 Paris, France IMS reps: E. Perkins, J. Pitman , P. Protter, As Sznitman, S. Tavare and E. Waymire
26th European Meeting of Statisticians July 24-28, 2006 Torun, Poland contact: ems2006@umk.pl The Second SIPTA Summer School on Imprecise Probabilities July 24-28, 2006 Madrid, Spain Contact: Enrique Miranda, enrique.miranda@urjc.es The 17th Brazilian Symposium of Probability and Statistics July 24-28, 2006 Hotel Gloria, Caxambu, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sponsored by the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE). This event is generally attended by 600 people, scholars, professionals and students, and the program includes conferences, short courses, round tables, oral and poster communications. For more info, visit the website. Two-day Workshop on Matrix Theory and Computations for Research in Social and Physical Sciences July 27-28, 2006 Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania The purpose of the workshop is to foster the interaction of research workers in matrix theory and computations and researchers in social and physical sciences who use them. The Interplay between Convex Geometry and Harmonic Analysis July 29 - August 2, 2006 Kansas State University, Kansas Organizers: Dmitry Ryabogin (785-532-6750, ryabs@math.ksu.edu) and David Auckly (785-532-6750, dav@math.ksu.edu)
July 30 - August 4, 2006 Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program Chairs: Robert Adler and Steve
Lalley (Probability); Sara van de Geer and Guenther Walther
(Statistics); Contributed Papers Chair: Marten Wegkamp; Local
Chair: Maria Eulália Vares, CBPF
AugustNinth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability August 1-5, 2006 University of Washington, Seattle, WA Co-chairs: Peter Craigmile, Peter Hoff
Recent Advances on Stochastic Computation and Bioinformatics August 2-3 2006 University of British Columbia, Vancouver IMS Rep: Raphael Gottardo, raph@stat.ubc.ca
August 5–6, 2006 IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil IMS Representative on Program Committees:
S.R.S. Varadhan
August 6-10, 2006 Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, USA IMS Program Chair: Christopher Genovese, IMS Contributed Paper Chair: Jennifer Hoeting, IMS Local Chair: TBA
International Congress on Mathematical Physics - ICMP 2006 August 6 - 11, 2006 Rio de Janeiro Young Researchers Symposium, August 5-6, IMPA. For more info, visit the website. Probabilistic and Combinatorial Approach in Analysis August 6-12, 2006 Kent State University Lecturer: Mark Rudelson First International Workshop on Gerber-Shiu Functions August 7-8, 2006 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada The purpose of this satellite workshop is to sum up the latest theoretical developments on Gerber-Shiu functions and to stimulate applications, both in finance and risk theory. Preceeding ARC 2006 at http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Arc2006/index_e.html. International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications August 7-11, 2006 University of Washington, Seattle The main topics of the conference include
(but are not limited to) Prague Stochastics 2006: joint session of the 7th Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics and the 15th Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions and Random Processes August 21-25, 2006 Prague, Czech Republic Contact: Zuzana Prášková, praskova@karlin.mff.cuni.cz 8th Iranian Statistical Conference August 22–24, 2006 Shiraz University, Iran Contact Dr A Borhani-Haghighi, Conference Secretary, email: isc8@susc.ac.ir International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) August 22-30, 2006 Madrid, Spain Meeting on High Performance Computing and Statistical Inference August 23 - 25, 2006 University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland This meeting will focus on how to exploit
developments in and the increasing availability of distributed
computing for implementing computationally intensive statistical
methodology 17th Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) - COMPSTAT2006 August 28-September 1, 2006 Rome, Italy First announcement and call for papers: February 2005. Contact: compstat2006@uniroma1.it SeptemberSeptember 1-4, 2006 New University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal The major concentration of the conference’s academic activities will be in mathematical and statistical sciences. International Conference on "Statistical Latent Variables Models in the Health Sciences" September 6-8, 2006 Perugia, Italy The primary objective of the conference is to bring together statisticians from academia as well as other research institutions working on different theoretical aspects and relevant applications of latent variable models to the health sciences and to provide a forum to share ideas, problems and methodologies. September 10-14, 2006 Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland The annual international conference of the
Royal Statistical Society - plenary speakers include Lord May,
Steve Fienberg, Trevor Hastie and Adrian Raftery. Spatial Data Methods for Environmental and Ecological Processes September 14–15, 2006 Foggia, Italy Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics September 15-17, 2006 Carleton University Contributed talks are invited for 15-minute presentations. Deadline to submit July 31, 2006. For additional information contact A. K. E. Saleh, esaleh@math.carleton.ca International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMA3) September 27-29, 2006 Pamplona, Spain The purpose of this workshop is to promote
the development and application of spatial, temporal, and mainly
spatio-temporal statistical methods to different fields related to
the environment. OctoberOct 11-14, 2006 University of Missouri, Columbia, MO The aim of this conference is to foster collaboration among mathematical statisticians and quantitatively-oriented social science researchers. The Twenty-eighth Midwest Probability Colloquium October 20-21, 2006 Northwestern University The program will feature the following speakers: Ofer Zeitouni (U. Minnesota and Technion), two lectures, Alexander Holryod (U British Columbia), one lecture, Balint Virag (U Toronto), one lecture. The Eighth Northwest Probability Seminar October 22, 2006 University of Washington, Seattle, WA Dedicated to the memory of Ron Pyke (1931-2005). If you are interested in attending this event, please contact Chris Burdzy (burdzy@math.washington.edu). NovemberAnnual Conference of the South African Statistical Association November 1-3, 2006 Stellenbosch, South Africa The conference will be preceded by two days of workshops on 30 and 31 October. Thirteenth Annual CAP Workshop on Derivative Securities and Risk Management November 3rd, 2006 Columbia University, New York City Contact: E-mail: emc2135@columbia.edu Tel: 212.854.8404 International Symposium: Bruno de Finetti Centenary Conference November 15-17, 2006 Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Invited lectures will be given by: E. Regazzini, O. Kallenberg, P. Diaconis, S. Lauritzen, P. Ressel, Y. Rinott, M. Taqqu (De Finetti's Legacy in Probability Today), G. Lunghini, L. Barone and F. Pressacco (Bruno de Finetti and Economic Theory). Fifth Northeast Probability Seminar In Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Michael Marcus November 16-17, 2006 Columbia University, New York, NY Invited speakers: Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft), Rodrigo Banuelos (Purdue University), Christian Houdre (Georgia Tech), Yuval Peres (Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley). December24th Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics December 1–3, 2006 Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India The theme of the conference is
“Medical Statistics and National Millennium Development
Goals”. Leverage the Power of Data Mining with Salford Systems' training session in San Diego December 4-7, 2006 San Diego, California Register for 1, 2, 3, or 4 days. Companies can receive training at their own sites or send representatives to our seminars. December 4-8, 2006 Australian National University, > Canberra, Australia THEME: Genome to Phenome Modelling 96th Statistical Mechanics Conference December 17-19, 2006 Rutgers University, New Jersey At the meeting we will celebrate the achievements (and birthdays) of our distinguished colleagues, Elihu Abrahams and Philip W. Anderson. The Book of Ester Samuel-Cahn: from Empirical Bayes to Prophet Inequality December 18-20, 2006 Jerusalem, Israel A conference in honor of Professor Ester Samuel-Cahn, who recently retired from the Hebrew University. For details, and inquiries contact Prof. Meilijson at isaco@post.tau.ac.il. Multivariate Statistical Methods in the 21st Century December 28-29, 2006 Eastern Zonal Cultural Center, Govt. of India, Kolkata, India IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Barry C. Arnold, barry.arnold@ucr.edu, Ashis SenGupta, ashis@stat.ucr.edu, J.K. Ghosh, K.V. Mardia and P.K. Sen.
Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium December 29-31, 2006 Calcutta University, Kolkata, India The objective is to provide a forum to the researchers, engaged in the field of Statistics and Probability to exchange ideas, facilitate discussions and share views amongst themselves. |
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