2007 Meetings Around the World

IMS Annual Meeting/ Joint Statistical Meetings

July 29 - August 2, 2007

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

IMS Program Co-chairs: Tony Cai and Mark Low

(IMS sponsored meeting)

January

Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas

January 2-6, 2007

Cochin, India

(IMS co-sponsored meeting)

The workshop is dedicated to exploring emerging statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting data related to pressing environmental problems.

The website provides further details about the conference and a mechanism for submitting abstracts. We welcome abstracts in all areas of biometrics.

The aim of this annual workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on disordered or random systems, and to discuss recent developments on themes of common interest.

February

Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics

February 25 - March 3, 2007

Lima, Peru

Program Chair: Antonio Galves
IMS Chairs: Thomas Kurtz & Alicia Carriquiry

(IMS sponsored meeting)

March

ENAR/IMS Spring Meeting

March 11-14, 2007

Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia

IMS Program Chair: David Banks

(IMS sponsored meeting)

Afternoons will be devoted to short talks and informal presentations. Information for those who wish to arrange in advance to give such a presentation will soon be available on the conference webpage.

A one day conference to celebrate the 150th birthday of the Victorian mathematician, Karl Pearson (1857-1936) who established the discipline of mathematical statistics.

A workshop on smoothing-based and Gaussian-process based methods for non-parametric regression in environmental problems

The scientific advisory group comprises Marian Scott, Adrian Bowman, Clive Anderson, Richard Smith, Feridun Turkman, Vic Barnett and Ron Smith. he workshop will be primarily by invitation and limited to 35 participants.

Major themes in 2007 are Statistical Methods of Bioinformatics, Survival Analysis, Time Series, Graphical Models, Analysis of Panel Data, Analysis of Space-Time Data, and much more.

April

The intent of this special session is to solicit, show-case, and discuss recent developments in computational technologies, statistics and data mining that contribute to scientific understanding from massive Earth science data sets.

In this workshop the committee has decided to deliberately mix together scientists from overall risk methodology, financial risk, general reliability and software reliability. The overall theme is risk metrics and measurement and we trust that common ground can be found.

Our purpose is to bring together statisticians from all over New England at a central location. The symposium provides a unique opportunity for statisticians working in academic institutions, government agencies and industry to exchange ideas on latest advances in research and technology. Special effort will be made to attract graduate students and young researchers to attend this symposium and present a paper in one of the contributed sessions.

May

The Stochastics and Optimization Group organises the Stochastics Colloquium, which is a seminar for talks in probability and mathematical statistics.

This particular workshop is designed to bring together researchers in the geosciences, statisticians and applied mathematicians to understand the scientific and data issues connected with the application of random matrices to geophysical problems and to suggest new methods for representing geophysical processes.

This workshop is intended to provide a forum for the presentation of recent developments in the efficient design, theoretical analysis, and novel application of Monte Carlo methods, with an emphasis on their relevance to bioinformatics, engineering, and statistics.

Please email questions to Javier Rojo – Organizer and Chair, jrojo@stat.rice.edu

The fifteenth meeting of the AiOs (PhD students) in Stochastics in the Netherlands will take place from 7 - 9 May 2007. This meeting is organized by the AiO Network Stochastics and is supported by the research schools MRI and Stieltjes Institute.

This workshop will highlight the application of design and analysis of computer experiments (DACE) to substantial numerical models for important geophysical processes.

There will also be a "Post-Conference Workshop on Recent Developments in Statistics" on May 23-24, 2007.

Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology

May 21-23, 2007

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Conference goals are the encouragement and dissemination of statistical research pertaining to problems that arise in industry and technology.

(IMS co-sponsored meeting)

Organised by the Graduate School in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the Belgian French Speaking Community at the Institut de statistique, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Roland Glowinski, lecturer
Kendall E. Atkisnon , Weimin Han , Laurent O. Jay, Brian E. Moore, Suely Oliveira, and David Stewart, organizers

The purpose of the conference is to bring together the researches working in several areas of statistics and stochastic analysis and to promote new developments in the intersection of these areas.

The general theme of Interface 2007 will be Systems Biology. For more information, please contact Alan J. Izenman, Department of Statistics, Speakman Hall, 1810 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083, (215) 204-8166, alan@temple.edu.

The conference is organized jointly by the Schools of Mathematical Sciences and of Computer Science, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

he conference theme is Statistical Science: Present Position and Future Prospects, and it will feature talks by prominent graduates of the Department.

June

16th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics

June 1-3, 2007

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

George P. H. Styan

(IMS Co-sponsored meeting)

Those who wish to attend should send an email message to rtd1@cornell.edu and lsc@math.cornell.edu, which explains why they would benefit from attending, includes the name of their thesis advisor or postdoctoral mentor, and has a CV attached.

The workshop will consist of a series of invited talks followed by a discussion and one or more sessions dedicated to contributed posters.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational science, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction.

This exceptional three-day program brings together leading Wall Street practitioners and members of the Harvard community (including from the Statistics faculty and the Harvard Management Company) to address the theory and practice of quantitative modeling in today's financial markets.

The conference on Ordered Statistical Data is an international annual conference. It aims at creating a stimulating atmosphere for researchers in the area by fostering research, discussion, and exchange of ideas on statistical work on ordered data.

Graybill VI will bring together leading researchers in the fields of applied probability, time series, and computational biology as well as young investigators and graduate students interested in these areas. In addition to the approximately 30 invited talks there will be poster sessions for bioinformatics/computational biology, applied probability, and time series and a limited number of contributed talks in applied probability and time series.

The workshop is aimed to encourage discussion and promote further research in the field of Bayesian inference in stochastic processes and on the use of stochastic processes for Bayesian inference.

Skorokhod Space. 50 years on

June 17-23, 2007

Kyiv, Ukraine

The aim of the conference is to provide the scientists from different countries with the possibility to analyze the results of their recent investigations and to discuss the new trends in the fields founded by A.V.Skorokhod about 50 years ago.

(IMS co-sponsored meeting)

This workshop is designed to review recent progress in the study of polymers. The emphasis will be on their rigorous mathematical treatment. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers in probability theory, combinatorics and statistical physics.

This 5 days lecture series provides an introduction to genomic data and their interpretation. 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.

2007 WNAR/IMS Western Regional Meeting

June 25-28, 2007

Irvine, CA, USA

IMS Program Chair: TBA

(IMS sponsored meeting)

The Workshop will cover both Monte Carlo methodologies and applications. It will focus on adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, population Monte Carlo algorithms, and on machine learning strategies on which the on-line optimisation of Monte Carlo algorithms heavily rely.

July

Course 1 (2 and 3 July): "Statistical Analysis with Incomplete Data"
Course 2 (4 July): "Software for Incomplete Data Analysis"
Course 3 (5 July): "Development and Application of a State-of-the-Art Multiple Imputation Routine, and its Evaluation in a Real World Example"

For this workshop, submissions are especially encouraged in the following areas: Statistics in Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Agriculture, Compositional Data Analysis, Interval Censoring, Latent Variable Models, modern Bayesian Methods, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Small Area Estimation and Mixed Effects models. However, more general papers that illustrate several statistical responses to modern issues are also encouraged.

Contact: Stuart Barber, workshop@maths.leeds.ac.uk
The 2007 Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop will focus on developments in interdisciplinary statistics and in particular the interface between statistical methodology and bioinformatics.

The aim of this satellite meeting to Statphys 23 is to bring together theorists and experimentalists working in phenomena of relevance for the statistical mechanics community, having their roots in materials science.

This year, the three courses will be
J. Buzzi: "Hyperbolicity through entropies for dynamical systems"
F. den Hollander: "Random polymers"
J. Mattingly: "Ergodicity of stochastic partial differential equations"

The conference intends to bring statisticians from academy, industry and regulatory agencies together to present new research findings in multiple testing.

Applied Probability INFORMS Conference

July 9-11, 2007

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Local organiser: Onno Boxma, boxma@eurandom.tue.nl
IMS Representative(s): R. Atar, B.D. Choi, D. Denteneer, P. Dupuis, P. Glynn, G. Grimmett, I. Kaj, O. Kella, T. Mikosch, I. Norros, W. Schoutens, H. Schmidli, A. Zeevi

The series of Conferences STATPHYS take place every three years in a different continent to give the maximum international relevance and visibility to the event. It is the world event for the broad field of Statistical Physics and all its interdisciplinary developments.

The goal is to develop a common mathematical framework for all aspects of cognition, and review how it explains empirical phenomena in the major areas of cognitive science - including vision, memory, reasoning, learning, planning, and language.

This conference will follow in the tradition of earlier conferences held at Hamilton (Canada), New Delhi (India), Vienna (Austria), and Athens (Greece). Invited tutorial talks will be given by G. Andrews, A. Kemp, I. Gessell, and W. Bohm.

The conference will specifically focus on three major research lines, i.e. opinion dynamics, dynamics in human language and the statistical physics of language dynamics.

The conference focuses on forty years of scientific activity of Professor Runggaldier and its aim is to bring together the people of the scientific and industrial world with whom he has cooperated during this time.

IWSM2007 will include four plenary lectures and a number of specially arranged invited paper sessions. The plenary lectures will discuss topics such as adaptive designs of clinical trials, applications in finance, engineering, and health sciences, multivariate sequential process control, and sequential selection.

It is the aim of the conference to bring together a wide range of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students whose work is related to the analysis of extreme values in a wide sense.

Tenth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability

July 24-28, 2007

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Chairs - Mayetri Gupta and Xiaoming Sheng

(IMS sponsored meeting)

IMS Annual Meeting/ Joint Statistical Meetings

July 29 - August 2, 2007

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

IMS Program Co-chairs: Tony Cai and Mark Low

(IMS sponsored meeting)

In addition to an excellent line up of speakers, we hope this one day probability meeting will help to strengthen links, stimulate further research and foster new collaborations amongst those working in probability within the region, including PhD students.

August

32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications

August 5-11, 2007

Urbana-Champaign

Local organizer: Richard Sowers

(IMS co-sponsored meeting)

This workshop will be of most value to AP teachers and college instructors of probability and statistics classes who have interests in exploring novel IT-based approaches for enhancing statistics education. The workshop will provide an interactive forum for exchange of ideas and recommendations for strategies to integrate computers, modern pedagogical approaches, the Internet and new student assessment techniques. Presenters

If you are interested in NP Bayes, please consider joining the fun at this workshop. We have an exciting program shaping up. Please visit the workshop homepage to sign up on-line (by June 30).

International Conference on the Frontier of Statistics: High Dimensional Data Analysis

August 13-14, 2007

Yunnan University, Kunming, China

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Samuel Kou

Sponsored by the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), an official section of the International Statistical Institute. Contacts: Francisco Samaniego, Program Chair (fjsamaniego@ucdavis.edu) and Bovas Abraham, ISBIS President (babraham@uwaterloo.ca).

The aim of this conference is to present the statistical and mathematical principles of smoothing with a focus on applicable techniques in fields like econometrics, time series, finance, environmental sciences, biometrics, spatial analysis, among others.

ISI Sessions provide an opportunity for statisticians to attend scientific meetings focusing on their own speciality, and at the same time absorb new research in other statistical fields that may have unanticipated applications to one’s own speciality. Many have spoken of the ‘cross pollination’ of ideas that they have experienced during ISI Sessions.

The purpose of this meeting is to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between computational statistics, data mining, knowledge discovery and statistical learning.

The aim of this meeting is to highlight and focus on the methodological advances that are taking place around the world, and raise awareness regarding best practices in census methodology.

September

This conference aims to bring key researchers from computational, statistical, numerical, physical and biological science and industry development together who work on diverse areas in the field of biometrical identification systems.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior people involved in this relatively new area of research. We want to create communication and links between the different directions of research, notably between probability, physics, combinatorics and algebra.

The aim is to provide a scientific forum for the next generation of European researchers in probability theory and statistics.

8th International Conference on Computer Data Analysis and Modelling: Stochastic Data and Systems

Organized by the Belarusian State University, the Belarusian Statistical Association, and the Vienna University of Technology.

The meeting features a school and a workshop in the fields of Statistics, Probability and Operations Research, introducing relevant topics and some of the most recent advances and prospective challenges of the fields with special emphasis on applications.

The principal goal will be to engage a broadly representative segment of the statistical, applied mathematical and decision analysis/ operations research communities in formulation and pursuit of specific research activities to be undertaken by the Program Working Groups. The application/registration deadline is August 16, 2007.

Algorithms play an important role in the analysis of complex systems. The practical implementation of any procedure almost always depends on fast, stable and accurate algorithms. The workshop will concentrate on algorithms in the areas of statistical analysis under (shape) constraints, Bayesian procedures, image analysis and machine learning and will cover the latest advances in linear and quadratic programming, constrained maximization, sparse systems, differential equations in image analysis and simulation techniques.

The ECAS courses are intended to achieve postgraduate training in special areas of statistics for both researchers and teachers at universities. Also professionals working in industry and interested in the application of new statistical methods are invited to participate.

October

Three well known researchers in the field (Lutz Duembgen, Guenther Walther and Jon A. Wellner) will give presentations focusing on asymptotics, algorithms and testing respectively. Moreover, young statisticians are encouraged to give a presentation themselves for the audience consisting of other young statisticians and senior researchers. There is no registration fee.

The goal is to examine the interplay between emerging genomic technologies, population- based studies, and developing statistical and computational methods. Three important topics will be discussed: genome-wide association studies; gene-environment interactions; "omics" techniques in population sciences.

The workshop aims to provide the opportunity to listen to and interact with key opinion leaders and influential statisticians from regulatory agencies, academia and industry across a broad range of topics pertaining to Phase I – Phase IV clinical trials.

Queueing theory studies systems which require customers or objects to wait. It is among its most important objectives to assess overall system performance, as well as the evolution of this performance over time. However, exact expressions for performance metrics often cannot be found. In such cases, one can resort to approximate or asymptotic methods. This workshop is devoted to the study of queues and stochastic networks, with special attention to both transient (time-dependent) analysis and asymptotic methods.

The Workshop will feature in-depth presentations and discussions of substantial applications of Bayesian statistics to problems in science and technology, poster presentations of contributed papers on applied Bayesian work and, new this year, contributed presentations by young researchers

The local organizer of this year's colloquium is Mark Pinsky (Northwestern University).

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different mathematical communities (such as mathematical physics, probability and mathematical analysis) working on the topic of interacting particle systems; and lead them to a deeper understanding of the relationships between their different perspectives.

For questions about the event, please e-mail symposia@stat.harvard.edu, call Ellen Weene at 617-496-1402, or visit the web page.

The goal of this workshop is to inform the scientific community about the CDI program, with the aim of eliciting strong proposals involving mathematical scientists. This workshop will be focused on the "knowledge extraction" aspect of the CDI program.

November

The scope of the workshop will be inverse problems (especially measurement errors) and curve estimation under qualitative constraints.

The objectives are; to call on Arab Statisticians from government statistical agencies, Universities, International and regional organizations, policy makers and planners or any other users, to get together for the first time in the Arab world, to announce and emphasize the importance of good statistical work, and to point out the role of the National Statistical Organizations, and the need of Capacity building in statistics.

Six invited speakers will give two lectures of one hour each on topics in Statistics or Probability. The lectures are open to anyone who is interested.

The invited speakers are: 1) Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
2) Mireille Bousquet-Melou (Universite Bordeaux)
3) Thomas Liggett (UCLA)
4) Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University).

December

The purpose of the three-day Deming Conference on Applied Statistics and the following two parallel two-day short courses is to provide a learning experience on recent developments in statistical methodologies.

The BioInfoSummer Symposium comprises both a research meeting in bioinformatics, and a summer school, aimed at promoting bioinformatics as an interdisciplinary research area to interested researchers and students

At this meeting we will honor some of our outstanding experimental colleagues, Guenter Ahlers, Herman Cummins, Jerry Gollub, Anneke Sengers, and Harry Swinney. You can get updated additional information at: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/index.html.

Organized by SLS and CMSD of the University of Hyderabad and C.R.Rao Advanced Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

The aim of this workshop is to examine and evaluate teaching methods-say traditional or innovative and to suggest some modifications in the delivery of knowledge.