2010 Meetings Around the World

International Conference on Statistics, Probability, Operations Research, Computer Science and Allied Areas

January 4-8, 2010

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: N. BalaKrishnan (Chair), CANADA; Hira Koul, USA; Soumendra Nath Lahiri,USA;

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

For information about this international conference on Statistics, Probability, and Related Areas, please contact: S. Rao Jammalamadaka (Organizing Committee Chair) rao@pstat.ucsb.edu

The main objective of this conference is to bring together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Statistics and Information Analytics.

This programme aims at the exposition of the latest developments in mathematical sciences lying on the boundary between the disciplines of stochastics and communications.

This is the inaugural workshop of the programme on Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences. It brings together several leading experts studying problems in the modern communication sciences using stochastic techniques. The interplay between these fields has been enormously fruitful over the last couple of decades, with stochastic techniques making an impact on the development of communication systems and problems in communications leading to new developments in the theory of stochastic processes. The aim of the workshop is to survey these developments and to map out possible pathways for the synergistic evolution of these fields in the future.

The X Chilean Biometric Conference, the IV Chilean Dental-Statistical Meeting, the II Chilean Bayesian Workshop and the I Chilean Medical-Statistical Meeting will be held on these dates. The scientific program considers plenary, discussion, and poster sessions. Participants are invited to present their work. The scientific committee will assign every submission to the category of Oral Presentation or Poster. An edited volume based on peer-review abstract will be available for the participants in a CD.

The workshop will focus on recent developments in methodology for categorical data analysis, such as analyzing high-dimensional data, Bayesian inference, dealing with clustering and missing data, and applications to rapidly-developing disciplines such as statistical genetics. A major purpose of the workshop is to discuss many recent significant developments and to identify important problems and new research directions.

The program will consist of two Mini Courses, three Special Invited Lectures, and four Short Lectures.

February

The focus will be on the interplay between finance and insurance but also other topics in actuarial and financial mathematics are welcome.

The SMRLO'10 will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of Stochastic Models and Methods in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management and their applications. The idea of symposium is to assemble researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions, industries, businesses and government, working in these fields. Theoretical issues and applied case-studied, presented on the symposium, will range from academic considerations to operational applications.

The XVIIth International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences (XVII SIMMAC) is the most important event in applied mathematics in Central America. It is organized by the School of Mathematics and the Center for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA) of the University of Costa Rica every two years.

SAMSI annually conducts a national Education and Outreach Program for undergraduate and graduate students interested in statistics and applied mathematics and their application in the disciplinary sciences.

March

In the tradition of the previous conferences, it provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. Participants from universities, business, administration and industry are welcome.

Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2010

March 11-13, 2010

University of Central Florida

Apart from informal presentations by conference participants, there will be plenary talks by five invited speakers. In addition, a short informal afternoon session will be held honoring the late Kai Lai Chung's mathematical career.

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

Conference on Frontier of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis - In Honor of James O. Berger

March 17-20, 2010

University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

The conference consists of plenary-speaker sessions, invited-speaker sessions, and poster sessions. Plenary speakers include Professors Donald Berry, Lawrence Brown, Persi Diaconis, Stephen Fienberg, and Alan Gelfand.
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dipak K. Dey

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The aim of the Seminar is to highlight the role of computer technology in statistical computations and analysis specially surveys and censuses through GIS and other information technology tools. The Seminar will focus on theoretical and empirical aspects of the Official Statistics in modern technology.

2010 ENAR/IMS Spring Meetings

March 21-24, 2010

Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA, USA

IMS Program Chairs: Marie Davidian and Hao Helen Zhang

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

Jointly organized by Department of Statistics, Stanford University and Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

Stochastic networks is a multifaceted area of research dealing with the stability, control, performance, approximation and design of stochastic models of networks. It gives rise to challenging and subtle mathematical problems, whose solution often requires a combination of ideas and techniques from several branches of mathematics, including probability theory, stochastic processes, analysis, optimization, combinatorics and graph theory. Research in this area is strongly motivated by applications in diverse areas, ranging from the traditional areas of telecommunications and manufacturing to service operations, biological and social networks and revenue management. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in this area to survey recent developments and identify future research directions.

The 'Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik' (DAGStat) is a network of scientific and professional organisations that develop and promote statistical theory and methodology. The second joint conference includes the 56th Biometrisches Kolloquium and the Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft. The theme is 'Statistics under one umbrella', encouraging a fruitful scientific communication between statisticians working in different fields.

This conference aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of resampling methods and high dimensional data. Inference in high dimensional setting presents unique challenges. The conference will provide a unique platform for taking stock of recent developments in each area and for exploring the limits of resampling methods in high dimensional setting. Keynote speakers are Professors Peter Bickel, Jianqing Fan, Peter Hall and Bin Yu.For more information visit the website or contact snlahiri@stat.tamu.edu

This conference will bring together members of the statistical research community from across the midwestern United States. The conference is inclusive of first-rate theoretical work, computational work, and serious applied work. Students are especially encouraged to participate in the conference. Participation is limited by space, and so all participants must register on the conference web site.

2010 UIUC Statistics Symposium

March 29-30, 2010

Champaign, Illinois

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Xuming He

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

April

The aim of this trans-disciplinary workshop will be to bring together specialists in the fields of spatial stochastics, of wireless networking and information theory, and will focus on the interplay between these disciplines.

The conference themes, which are inspired by the career of Professor Leonard Gross, include; stochastic analysis, heat kernel analysis, functional inequalities, mathematical physics. This conference will be an occasion for his students, colleagues, and friends to meet for an overall look at his work and its influence on current research.

The workshop will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of risks, copulas and related topics. The main goal of this scientific event is to gather researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions, industries and Government, working in these fields.

The theme is "Statistics in the Sciences". Several invited special theme sessions will range from statistics in biological sciences (including systems-biology and genomics) to statistics in physical sciences (including astrophysics), and form statistics in healthcare and economics, to statistics in educational assessment and evaluation.

The Graduate Student Probability Conference is organized by a group of graduate students from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Jonathan Mattingly and Amarjit Budhiraja. The conference is a great opportunity for students to give and hear probability talks in a friendly environment. The two keynote speakers will be Professor Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor S.R.S. Varadhan (New York University).

May

The workshop will bring together statisticians, applied mathematicians, computer scientists and policy makers to address issues related to combining information. Professor Jim Berger (Duke University) will provide the keynote address. He will be followed by a group of distinguished speakers from statistics, computer sciences and machine learning community.

AISTATS2010 (Artificial Intelligence and Statistics)

May 13-15, 2010

Chia Laguna Resort, Sardinia

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Michael Titterington

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The meeting consists of two short courses, one in probability and one in statistics, and lectures by the participants. The purpose is both to learn topics of current research interest and to become acquainted with the work of other aios in the Netherlands.

It is well known that diffusion in single equations tends to suppress pattern formation; on the other hand, diffusion in systems may create patterns - as was first discussed by Alan Turing in his 1952 attempt at modeling hydra regeneration. Only until recently, progress has been made mathematically to understand the mechanisms involved in diffusion and related models. The purpose of this conference is to provide an opportunity to synthesize what has already been done and to extend the boundaries of our knowledge.

The principal speaker will be Professor Adrian Constantin, Chair of Partial Differential Equations at the University of Vienna, Austria. Adrian Constantin was awarded several research prizes ("Benedetto Sciarra" prize of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1994, "Göran Gustafsson" prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2005, "Friedrich Bessel" prize of the Humboldt foundation in 2007) and he is involved in international research networks.

The conference objective is to bring together researchers in Nonparametrics and Statistical Learning from academia, industry, and government in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere focused on the development of both statistical theory and methods. The major goal of the conference is to focus on principles and methods that apply to both disciplines.

This workshop series aims to: define important problems in neuronal data analysis and useful strategies for attacking them; evaluate analytical methods by their ability to yield insightful results in interesting settings; foster communication between experimental neuroscientists and those trained in statistical and computational methods; encourage young researchers, including graduate students, to present their work; expose young researchers to important challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary domain, while providing a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction of young researchers with senior colleagues.

This conference will bring together academic, governmental and industrial researchers as well as users of statistics and probability and will feature workshops, invited and contributed sessions in all areas of statistics and probability.

Professor Nakajima will give a self-contained and penetrating lectures on the fascinating subject. The talks are aimed to survey current research and provide introduction to new comers.

This meeting is to be the major event in Probability and Statistics held every two years in Africa, under the aegis of the newly Statistical Pan African Society (SPAS) to be launched alongside the meeting.

Model Uncertainty

May 30 – June 1, 2010

University of Warwick, UK

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dario Spano
This workshop will highlight recent developments and research on topics related to model uncertainty and model choice in Statistics. It will be hosted by the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) at the University of Warwick.

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

June

Statistical Science - Making a Difference

June 3-4, 2010

University of Wisconsin, Madison

IMS Representatives: Rich Johnson, Kjell Doksum, Grace Wahba

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Københavns Universitet, provides a forum for state-of-the-art results and the latest advances in the area of actuarial science and finance. The meeting is open to people from Universities, Insurance Companies, Banks, Consulting Firms or Regulatory Authorities, interested in actuarial-financial mathematics.

The aim of the workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between statistics and matrix theory. Email: IWMS2010@shfc.edu.cn

This is the fifth symposium in the FERM series started in 2005. The series has grown into a great gathering of academic researchers and industry practitioners to exchange state-of-art knowledge and discoveries in financial engineering and risk management, and discuss the recent financial crisis, recent research interests and current industry trends.

The theme of the workshop is Bayesian asymptotics. It will be held at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, a Research Institution housed in an historical building located in Moncalieri on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.

From Markov Processes to Brownian Motion and Beyond — An International Conference In Memory of Kai Lai Chung

June 13-16, 2010

Peking University, China

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Louis Chen, Zhen-Qing Chen, Jim Dai, Zhi-Ming Ma and Ruth Williams.

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The goals of these meetings are to explore novel techniques for modeling and analyzing massive, high-dimensional, and nonlinearly structured scientific and internet data sets; and to bring together computer scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, and data analysis practitioners to promote cross-fertilization of ideas

The aim of this workshop is to bring together theory and practice in modelling high-dimensional data; we hope to encourage genuine interaction between proponents of different approaches.

The Italian Statistical Society (SIS) promotes every two years an international scientific meeting. The 2010 meeting will take place in Padua, Italy, next June. The Conference will include plenary, specialized, contributed and poster sessions. These can be on any area of interest relevant to theoretical and applied statistics.

WNAR/IMS Meeting

June 20–23, 2010

Seattle, Washington

Program Chairs: Carolyn Rutter (WNAR) and Brenda Kurland (IMS)

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

It covers all aspects of rare event simulation ranging from purely theoretical developments to practical applications. The objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners working in different locations and on different applications to present recent results, exchange ideas, and discuss open problems and new direction. While contributed talks are encouraged, one need not present a paper in order to participate in this event.

Monte Carlo simulation is playing an increasingly important role in the design and analysis of communications systems and protocols, as networks and communications infrastructure become more complex and the performance requirements more demanding. In many settings, performance requirements involve meeting quality-of-service levels for which the associated computation involves, either explicitly or implicitly, the computation of a rare event probability. Consequently, the workshop will bring together leading researchers in rare-event simulation to present new developments having the potential to significantly expand the applicability of these ideas in the communications setting.

The mission of ITI Conference is to promote the communication and interaction among researchers involved in the development and application of methods and techniques within the broad framework of information and communication technology.

The school will be devoted to training of doctoral students in the area of probability. We invite participation of graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, and also regular faculty.

This workshop is intended as a forum to bring together researchers with interests in this area, both as a means of communicating the current state-of-the-art and identifying important new problems and possible methods of statistical analysis.

On the occasion of Professor Kuznetsov's 60th birthday, an international conference is being organized at Boulder. Note that there will be a few more speakers added on the web site soon. Topics: measure-valued processes, PDE's, SPDE's and more.

Modeling High Frequency Data in Finance II

June 24-27, 2010

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ionut Florescu, Frederi Viens

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to Louis Chen's work in Stein's method, probability theory, computational biology and beyond. The scientific program consists of invited talks only presented by distinguished statisticians and probabilists from all over the world. Participation is open to all but participants must register. There is no registration fee but there is a charge for the conference dinner. This conference will provide a memorable occasion of celebration, reunion and reminiscence for Louis and his friends, colleagues and students.

The relations and connections amongst inference methodologies - such as relational models, Bayesian networks, random graphs, and dynamic networks - can be confusing, as they have often have indistinct boundaries and unexplored statistical properties. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds and approaches in order to explore these commonalities and differences.

ICORS 2010, the International Conference on Robust Statistics

June 28 - July 2, 2010

Prague, Czech Republic

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Xuming He

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The international conference is devoted to all aspects of distribution theory and their applications, including discrete distributions, univariate and multivariate continuous distributions, copulas, extreme values, skewed distributions, conditionally specified distributions and life distributions in reliability engineering and survival analysis

The purpose of this workshop is to promote the development and application of spatio-temporal statistical methods in different fields related to Environmental Sciences.

July

One of the objectives of ICWRER conferences is to bring together physical, biological, chemical, statistical and technical expertise in order to better understand natural systems related to water resources from all around the world. As for the case of the ISSH series, the topics of ICWRER conferences are versatile encompassing GIS and remote sensing, stochastic hydrology, sustainable water management, surface water and groundwater interaction, ecosystem modelling, scaling problems in hydrology and water resources, environmental management, risk analysis and management or climate change.

5th International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP 2010)

July 5-8, 2010

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Joseph Glaz, University of Connecticut

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

Grand Hotel Bernardin, St. Bernardin Adriatic Resort & Convention Center, Portoroz (Portorose), Slovenia

Key themes: industrial applications of Statistical Image Analysis; Future Directions for handling large & complex data sets; Financial Services; Health Services; quality & produtivity improvement and decision-making in business & industry.

The 2010 Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop will focus on developments at the interface between statistical methodology and bioinformatics and more generally in interdisciplinary statistics.

International Conference on Statistics and Society

July 10-12, 2010

Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Harrison Zhou

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The meeting will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of new results on ordered statistical data as well as for reviews of existing literature. It will be devoted to all aspects of order statistics, record statistics, and other ordered/censored data, and their applications.

Data is preferable to anecdote or intuition as a basis for robust decision making in many professions and sections of society. More and more we want to see "the evidence". The root purpose of statistics is to extract insight and meaning about real contexts using data. Successful learning processes must be researched and we must consider how data and context motivate our students and guide our education practices.

Orthogonal Polynomials, Applications in Statistics and Stochastic Processes

July 12-15, 2010

University of Warwick, UK

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dario Spano
This workshop aims to bring together a wide variety of scientists that have made important contributions to the theory and applications of Orthogonal Polynomials, with the purpose of investigating the frontiers of the theory and the possibilities of its extension and further applicability in Statistics and Probability.

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

Richard Brualdi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the principal speaker. He is one of the founders and continuing leaders of the area of Combinatorial Matrix Theory, author of more than 200 papers, and an award-winning teacher.The conference will discuss the symbiotic relationship between matrices and graphs and the significant role that they jointly play in pure and applied mathematics, science, and technology. In addition to Prof. Brualdi's lectures (held during the mornings), this conference will offer collaborative (AIM-style) research groups with leading experts in combinatorial matrix theory (meeting in the afternoons) that will begin work on research problems.

The key themes for this IMSC will include analysis techniques for multi-model ensembles of climate simulations, understanding recent climate change and predicting the near-term future, extreme events, predictions of climate change relevant for impacts, reconstructing and understanding climate change over the Holocene, and broadly statistical methods for the analysis of climate data.

The aims of the program and workshop are (i) to identify the critical new developments of inference methods for PK and PD data; (ii) to determine open challenges; and (iii) to establish inference for PK and PD as an important motivating application area of non-parametric Bayes.

6th Cornell Prosbability Summer School

July 18-31, 2009

Ithaca, NY, USA

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The Probability at Warwick Young Researchers Workshop has the principal aim of bringing together young researchers working in probability. It will feature lecture courses by two excellent invited speakers, intended to be accessible to graduate mathematicians and probabilists.

This conference is held every two years and is concerned with all aspects of spatial accuracy in natural resources and environmental sciences.

The topics of this meeting will include percolation, random walks, interacting particle systems, probabilistic cellular automatas, stochastic calculus and the application of these models in biology, finance, economy and physics.

The focus is on recent developments in the theory of Lévy and jump processes and their applications. There will be invited talks and poster sessions.

Thirteenth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability

July 27–30, 2010

University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications. The conference will mainly focus on a number of topics: estimation, prediction and testing in linear models, robustness of relevant statistical methods, estimation of variance components appearing in linear models, generalizations to nonlinear models, design and analysis of experiments, including optimality and comparison of linear experiments.

The session topics will include: High dimensional probability and empirical processes; Nonparametric and semiparametric models; Shape-restricted inference; Statistical learning theory; Statistics in complex learning designs; Survival analysis. The meeting will honor Jon Wellner's 65th birthday.

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