IMS 2006 Annual Meeting Program Book
Social Program
The Banquet will be held on Tuesday, August 1.
The IMS Presidential Address will take place in the evening on Wednesday, August 2.
Scientific Program
IMS Special Invited Speakers
IMS Wald Lecture
Peter Hall
IMS Le Cam Lecture
Stephen Stigler
IMS Medallion Lectures
Paul Glasserman
Greg Lawler
Thomas Mountford
Michael Woodroofe
Program Chairs
Co Program Chairs for Statistics
Guenther Walther, Stanford University
Sara van de Geer, University of Leiden
Co Program Chairs for Probability
Steve Lalley, University of Chicago
Robert Adler, Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology
Contributed Papers Chair
Marten Wegkamp, Florida State University
Local Chair
Maria Eulália Vares, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Statistics program
July 30–August 2
Fifth International Symposium on Probability and its Applications
August 2–4
EBP Mini-courses
Yuval Peres (UC Berkeley): Determinantal processes and zeros of Gaussian analytic functions
Murad Taqqu (U Boston): Self-similarity and long-range dependence
EBP Invited Speakers
Vincent Beffara (ENS Lyon): Columnar effects and pinning for a few oriented polymer models
Jacob van den Berg (CWI): Self-destructive percolation in the plane
Stella Brassesco (IVIC): Front fluctuations in a stochastic reaction diffusion equation
Donald Dawson (Carleton): Emergence and multi-scale behaviour in spatially structured mutation-selection systems
Paul Dupuis (Brown U): Importance sampling for stochastic networks
Vlada Limic (UBC): Attracting edge: does it happen and if so when?
Jim Pitman (UC Berkeley): Random partitions and continuum random trees
EBP Sponsors
Capes, CNPq, Faperj, Fapesp, Finep, ICTP, IM-AGIMB, IMPA, NSF, Prosul, RDSES
Scientific Committee
D Brillinger (Berkeley)
C Newman (Courant)
Y Peres (Berkeley)
C-E Pfister (EPFL)
I M Skovgaard (KVL)
V Yohai (UBA)
Organizing Committee
F Cribari (UFPE)
C C Dorea (UnB)
L R Fontes (USP)
M Fragoso (LNCC)
A C Frery (UFAL)
S R Lopes (UFRGS)
V Sidoravicius (IMPA)
M E Vares (CBPF) (chair)