2012 Meetings Around the World

2012 IMS Annual Meeting/8th World Congress

July 9-14, 2012

Istanbul, Turkey

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

January

The goal of the conference is to bring together statisticians and other scientists engaged in inter-disciplinary research involving applications of Statistics from different parts of the world, and provide a platform for them to interact among themselves and to share their thoughts on recent developments in different areas of the subject. Success of the conference will definitely infuse further enthusiasm in statistical activities in India, particularly among young researchers.

The topics to be covered in this PASI lie in several overlapping areas of Probability Theory and Statistical Physics: Disordered Systems (including Spin Glasses and Random Walks in a Random Medium), Percolation and Interacting Particle Systems.

Observations are key to uncertainty quantification (UQ) in climate research because they provide a corroborating source of information about physical processes being modeled. However, observations have uncertainties and this poses a set of methodological and practical issues for comparing them to model simulations. The scientific themes of the workshop include: Experimental design aspects of collecting ground-based and remotely-sensed observations; Data fusion and homogenization: how to combine heterogeneous observational data sources to get a clearer picture of the true physical process; Link to Uncertainty Quantification for projection of future climate based on past and present observations.

In recent years, the mathematical theory associated with financial risk management and the pricing of contingent claims has been a highly active field of research. The area has established itself as one of the most vigorously growing branches of applied mathematics. Model-based analysis of contracts and portfolios has become a standard in the finance industry, and the number of academic institutions offering curricula in financial mathematics is increasing rapidly. In this context, the winter school aims at providing a meeting place for participants both from industry and from academia.

The workshop will focus on recent advances and applications of measure concentration and will gather participants from various areas where this idea has been useful and fruitful to favour exchanges and collaborative research.

The goal of the conference is to bring together active researchers from the various disciplines to showcase their state-of-the-art research results and hopefully to forge new cross-disciplinary interactions among the participants. The conference provides a unique opportunity for in-depth technical discussions and exchange of ideas in mathematical and computational sciences, as well as explores the potential of their applications in natural and social sciences, engineering and technology and industry and finance.

One week (Monday to Friday) a group of 50 to 80 mathematicians, working in academia or industry, from anywhere in the Netherlands and from abroad come together to tackle industrial problems. Companies present their problems on Monday. The group of mathematicians then devote the entire week aiming for solutions of the problems. Friday the groups present their solution.

February

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on time series models with structural breaks both from a methodological as well as applied point of view.

All academics and practitioners are welcomed to participate in this yearly conference. The scientific programme (including sandwich lunches) is free for academics, for non-academics there is a fee of 150 euro. The fee for the conference dinner is 75 euro for all participants. Members of the IA|BE receive 11 CPD points for attending this conference.

The MCQMC Conference is a biennial meeting devoted to the study of Monte Carlo (MC) and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the relationships between the two classes of methods, and their effective application in different areas. Its aim is to provide a forum where leading researchers and users can exchange information on the latest theoretical developments and important applications of these methods.

The main aim of the workshop is to contribute to the development of efficient algorithms to simulate complex stochastic systems conditioned on the occurrence of a rare event. Although they may occur with small probability, such events may be of great practical interest because they represent very undesirable system behavior. Simulation algorithms give an estimate of these small probabilities and an understanding of the likely mechanism by which the event occurs. Applications of rare event simulation methods include many engineered systems such as noisy optical laser systems, queuing networks, and mechanical reliability analysis, as well as financial risk, climate dynamics, and random graph and network models.

As part of its Education and Outreach Program for 2011-2012, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) will offer a two-day undergraduate workshop on topics of current interest in statistics and applied mathematics. In addition to an overview of current and planned SAMSI Research Programs, the program topic "Applications of UQ" will be covered in some depth.

Learn about the challenging research facing scientists and statisticians across the Department of Energy at the first Conference on Data Analysis (CoDA), hosted by the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The CoDA poster session will showcase exciting statistical work that could lead to future collaborations.

March

This meeting, organized jointly by DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik and the University of Mainz, provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. There will be plenary presentations by N. El Karoui, G. Lawler, Ph. Protter and M. Taqqu as well as 14 scientific sections with invited and contributed talks.

Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2012

March 22-24, 2012

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Program Committees: Krzysztov Burdzy, Ruth Williams, David Nualart

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The XII CLAPEM is the largest conference gathering Probabilists and Statisticians in the Latin American region. It is organized by the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society and takes place every two/three years, attracting researchers and students from the most important Latin American centers. The CLAPEM activities include: thematic sessions, short courses, lectures held by invited researchers, sessions of oral and poster contributions, and satellite meetings.

April

2012 ENAR/IMS Meeting

April 1-4, 2012

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

This workshop will bring together a group of world-leading researchers whose work addresses intractability, in its various forms, with a diverse set of techniques. The aim is to create an event at which experts highlight the sources of difficulty in their respective fields of specialisation, describe recent developments which treat these issues and thereby foster opportunities for transfer of ideas and methodology.

David Blackwell Memorial Conference

April 19-20, 2012

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Peter Bickel, Steve Shreve

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The school is primarily aimed at advanced doctoral students and early postdocs in probability theory and random processes. There will be five intensive courses broadly focused on random walks and jump processes and their applications to real-world problems. Participants will have a chance to present their research results.

May

Conference on New Statistical Methods for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis

May 11, 2012

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dan Nettleton

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

Southeastern Probability Conference

May 14-15, 2012

Duke University & UNC Chapel Hill, NC

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committee: Rick Durrett, Yuri Bakhtin, Amarjit Budhiraja, Jim Fill, Jonathan Mattingly, and Tai Melcher

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

This week long workshop will provide an introduction to the field of uncertainty quantification (UQ) to students and faculty from the mathematical and statistical sciences. The overall goal of the workshop is to illustrate to need for and power of quantitative methods to confront the very hardest and most important data- and model-driven scientific challenges.

The aim of this school and workshop is to bring together researchers working on random polymer models and related problems, as well as young researchers interested in this area, to foster learning, exchange of ideas, and collaboration, and to promote further progress in our understanding. The topics to be covered in the school and workshop include, but are not restricted to: random pinning models, copolymer models, directed polymers with bulk disorder, Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class, and dynamics of polymers

Workshop on Analysis of High-Dimensional and Functional Data

May 19-20, 2012

Davis, CA

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Hans-Georg Müller

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

All statistical themes, theoretical and applied, are welcome, but special attention will be given to dependent risks and econometrics, biostatistics, high-dimensional data, etc.

This two-day workshop deals with analytical and numerical results of stochastic models. It addresses two topics of intensive and growing research activities:
• Model Uncertainty and Non-Linear Expectation. with many important applications in financial mathematics.
• Time-Series Econometrics. In 2003, Granger and Engle received the Nobel Prize in Economics for their research in Time-Series Econometrics.

Quantitative methods in statistics, biostatistics and actuarial sciences

May 30 - June 1, 2012

Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Prof. Ingrid Van Keilegom

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

This workshop series is concerned with analysis methods for neural signals from various sources, including EEG, fMRI, MEG, 2-Photon, and extracellular recordings

June

The program will invite world-leading experts in the areas of stationary and non-stationary modelling of low- and high-dimensional financial time series, and encourage them to use data covering the period of the recent financial crisis to discuss the impact of the crisis on their proposed models, methods and theories.

Differential equations (deterministic or stochastic) play a fundamental role in modelling dynamic phenomena in fields as diverse as physics, biology, finance, engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, neuroscience, ecology, meteorology, pharmacology and others. Models defined via differential equations (or systems of differential equations) usually depend on finite- or possibly infinite-dimensional parameters. In order to obtain a model that is useful in practice, it is critical to know these parameters, or to estimate them in case they are unknown. The workshop aims at providing a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the area of parameter estimation for deterministic and stochastic differential equations, who will review different methods used to tackle the problems arising in these fields, assess the achieved progress, and identify future research directions.

The main objective is to together reseachers, users of statistic and Ph.D students to discuss and exchange ideas and present new results in the fields of probabilities and statistics according to the proposed themes. The organizers hope to:
- Bring together researchers in the field of statistics and its uses.
- To review the recent progress of research in Statistics.
- To enable PhD students to present their research and discuss with other leading researchers.

This Summer School will include two main courses, by Gregory Miermont on planar maps and by Omer Angel on interacting particle systems, and short presentations by participants.

International Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis (RATS2012)

June 9-12, 2012

Protaras, Cyprus

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dimitris Politis

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The conference will bring together mathematicians from the areas of Analysis and Probability, in particular those whose work relates to the life-long scientific interests of Professor Stanislaw Kwapien. The meeting is in honor of his 70th anniversary.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together and to foster exchanges among scientists in Applied Probability and Stochastic Modeling from diverse fields of science such as Mathematics, Statistics, Statistical Physics, Biophysics, Queuing, Networks, Financial Engineering, and Econophysics. Participants are encouraged to submit their contributions to the journal of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, published by Springer.

NIH-funded University of Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling will host a symposium on modeling immune responses with three main themes: 1) bioinformatics modeling for immunology; 2) bridging immunology and mathematics; and 3) bridging immunological data and mathematical models--statistical methods. Invited plenary speakers are Fiona Brinkman (Simon Fraser University), Rob de Boer (Utrecht University), Elizabeth Halloran (University of Washington), Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Lab), and Eberhard O. Voit (Georgia Tech). Travel support applications for students and postdocs are available.

First Conference of the International Society for Non-parametric Statistics

June 15-19, 2012

Halkidiki, Greece

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Soumendra Lahiri

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

This event will bring together researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models, to survey recent developments, and identify future research directions. The meeting will be structured in a workshop format, with approximately twenty hour-long invited talks, and ample free time, so as to maximize interactions between speakers and participants, and to facilitate a fruitful exchange of ideas. In addition, there will be a poster session for contributed papers.

The School is devoted to recent advances in probability and statistical physics as well as to classical topics with current increase of activity. It targets graduate students and postdocs, but undergraduate students and advanced researchers are also welcome to attend. Longer courses will be accompanied by tutorials.

Innovative creation, development, and dissemination of research ideas and results on the interface between Statistics and Engineering for the support of complex system design and operation, quality and reliability improvement, and optimal proactive decision-making.

The goal of this summer workshop is to bring together such researchers from the mathematical, statistical, computational, scientific, and engineering communities to first talk about their interests and research and then, by having groups of participants work together to establish lasting, synergistic connections that lead to new research. We are also interested in having participants who may not be involved in research into nonlocal continuum models, but that have expertise in areas that will influence future research into those models.

July

The 2nd IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting

July 1-4, 2012

Tsukuba, Japan

Program Chairs: Byeong U. Park (bupark@stats.snu.ac.kr) and Runze Li (rli@stat.psu.edu)

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)

The LASR Workshop is a well established annual statistical meeting founded over 30 years ago by Kanti Mardia. The theme for the 31st workshop in July is "New Statistics and Modern Natural Sciences".

The third biennial International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC2012) is now accepting abstracts (deadline 20 January) and registrations. The conference is hosted by the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, University of Oslo. It will take place at Sundvolden Hotel outside Oslo. Further information about the conference, workshops and abstract submission can be found at the conference website.

Conference in Honour of Miklós Csörgő's Work on the occasion of his 80th birthday

The workshop will consist of a series of invited and contributed talks on the general topic of inference in complex/high-dimensional problems, with a special focus on methods that are based on model-selection, shrinkage, and regularization.

2012 IMS Annual Meeting/8th World Congress

July 9-14, 2012

Istanbul, Turkey

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

The workshop will consist of a graduate student poster session, presentations by Recent Ph.D.s, a mentoring event, and a career minisymposium. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet with other women mathematicians at all stages of their careers. Use the submission links below:
Graduate Students - https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/77
Recent Ph.D.s Any Applied Area - https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/78
Recent Ph.D.s Mathematical Biology - https://www.mathprograms.org/db/AWM/80

International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) on Longitudinal Data Analysis Subject to Outliers, Measurement Errors, and/or Missing Values

July 16-18, 2012

Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Brajendra Sutradhar

(IMS Co-Sponsored Meeting)

Statistical Multiscale Methods have been developed rapidly during the last decades and provide nowadays an indispensable tool for a variety of applications. The aim of this workshop is to provide an up to date overview of the different aspects of this emerging field. This includes on the one hand a rigorous mathematical treatment of statistical multiscale estimators such as risk bound analysis, deviation inequalities and their statistical applications, e.g. the construction of confidence sets. On the other hand algorithmic and computational issues will be discussed as well, and their performance in various areas of applications, ranging from signal processing, time series analysis and financial statistics to computational genetics and bio-imaging.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications as well as matrix analysis and its applications to statistics, and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects.

An annual international workshop to promote and develop the use of statistical modelling in research and applications.

The main lecturers are: David Aldous (UC Berkely), Sourav Chatterjee (NYU), and Remco van der Hofstad (Eindhoven). In addition there were two one-hour talks by: Shankar Bhamidi (UNC), Amir Dembo (Stanford), Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis), Gregory Miermont (Pairs Sud), and Joel Spencer (NYU)

This workshop aims at covering various new developments in the theory and applications of statistics, probability, and stochastic processes, with particular emphasis on applications in health, engineering, social and environmental sciences. These areas reflect current research interests and achievements by members of the Department of Statistics as well as those areas identified in the Department’s Strategic Plan. The workshop will be held over two and half days, featuring invited talks in both the mornings and afternoons, with regular coffee and meal breaks.

More than one-third of the world's population lives in areas at risk for the transmission of dengue, a vector-transmitted disease that is one of the leading causes of death and illness in the tropics and subtropics. This workshop will bring together public health officials as well as mathematicians, biologists and epidemiologists to identify important modeling issues and to establish possible new collaborations on modeling dengue disease dynamics and control.

The purpose of the first meeting of y-BIS (Young Business and Industrial Statisticians of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics) jointly with the first meeting of jSPE (Section of Young Statisticians of the Portuguese Statistical Society) is to bring together young statisticians and professionals working in Academia and in Industry. The conference will offer opportunities to meet each other, and to share scientific and professional experiences. This meeting will cover many of the research areas in Probability and Statistics, and many areas of application.

14th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability

July 26-28, 2012

University of California, San Diego

The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in statistics and probability.

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

Joint Statistical Meetings

July 28 - August 2, 2012

San Diego, CA, USA

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)

August

The scientific program of SSP 2012 will include invited plenary talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers. All accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore.

The Brazilian School of Probability (EBP) has been organized every year since 1997. It is an initiative of the Brazilian probabilistic community intended to provide an opportunity to share new research ideas, directions and developments in the modern probability theory and related areas, to discover new possibilities for collaboration and an excellent opportunity for the students to begin their scientific life. Activities will include mini-courses and plenary talks by invited speakers, short communications and posters. Problem sessions, training sessions and round tables are also possible. The XVI EBP is the first one held at a remote area of Brazil. It provides a special opportunity for local students and researchers to get access to the cutting edge of modern probability.

This summer program will focus on computational advertising. The activities in the working groups will address real-world datasets provided by the corporate participants. Datasets that will be made available include: Recommender systems data: (1) Netflix competition data; (2) Y! Music data available from KDD cup 2011; (3) Movielens dataset available from GroupLens; (4) Y! front page data (to be released, tentative at this point)
Web Search: (1) Learning to Rank competition data.
Advertising: (1) Click logs from a real-world system (to be released, tentative at this point).
e-commerce:( 1) Epinions: data to study user trust and product ratings.

September

This course will advocate a Bayesian approach to modelling and inference for dynamic stochastic models of biological systems. The course will emphasise model development, simulation and computationally intensive methods of inference based on realistic examples. The school will make use of lectures, practical sessions, software demonstrations, informal discussion sessions and presentations of research projects by school participants. The slides and background reading material will be distributed to the students before the start of the course.

October

Workshop for Women in Probability

Otober 14-16, 2012

Durham, NC

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Amber Puha, Rick Durrett, Jonathan Mattingly

(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)