C
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, also will further crystallize objective Bayes related areas. There will be opportunities to
ALEND
CP 6128 Succursale Centreville, Montréal, methodology as an established area for sta- present papers, in poster format, related to
Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada; (514) 343- tistical research. The workshop will consist Yakovlev’s interests. It is intended to pub-
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7824;
leger@dms.umontreal.ca. of invited talks, followed by discussion, lish the papers presented in a peer-reviewed
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and one or more sessions dedicated to con- commemorative volume of proceedings.
tributed posters. The first day of the work- For more information, visit www.urmc.
VENTS
June
shop will include longer ‘tutorial’ sessions.
rochester.edu/biostat/ayconference or contact
For more information, visit stat.wharton. Cheryl Cicero, 601 Elmwood Ave.,
*2–5—2009 Quality & Productivity
upenn.edu/statweb/Conference/OBayes09/ Box 630, Rochester, NY 14624;
Research Conference, Yorktown Heights,
OBayes.html or contact Linda Zhao, 3730
cheryl_cicero@urmc.rochester.edu.
New York
Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215)
The conference theme is “Data, Statistics,
898-8228;
lzhao@wharton.upenn.edu.
››8–10—Workshop on Parameter
and Vision Lead to Great Decisions.” The
Estimation for Dynamical Systems,
focus, as always, will be on presenting lead-
››*7–10—Southern Regional Eindhoven, The Netherlands
ing edge research by academic and indus-
Conference on Statistics Annual The aim of the workshop is to provide a
trial statisticians and showing the best new
Summer Research Conference, Jekyll meeting place for researchers in this new
statistical methods for improving industrial
Island, Georgia and challenging area of statistical research.
quality and productivity. There will be a
The annual SRCOS Summer Research They will review different methods used
pre-conference, full day course on June 2,
Conference is designed to bring together to tackle the problem, assess the achieved
followed by two and a half days of plenary/
statistical researchers at all levels to learn progress, and identify future research
invited/contributed/tutorial sessions and
about current areas of investigation and directions. Invited speakers include
special events. For more information, visit
trends in statistics, including statistics Nicolas Brunel (Évry), David Campbell
research.ihost.com/qprc_2009 or contact
education. The conference format consists (Vancouver), Edward Ionides (Ann
Emmanuel Yashchin, IBM T. J. Watson
of morning, early afternoon, and evening Arbor), David Lunn (London), Kimberley
Research Ctr., P.O. Box 218, Yorktown
sessions, leaving late afternoons open for McAuley (Kingston), Eric Mjolsness
Heights, NY 10598; (914)-945-1828;
informal professional discussions and social (Irvine), James Ramsay (Montréal),
yashchi@us.ibm.com.
interaction. New researchers and gradu- Eberhard Voit (Atlanta), and Victor Zavala
ate students are encouraged to contribute (Argonne). For more information, visit
4–6—Workshop on Statistical Methods
poster presentations. Keynote speakers
www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2009/
for Dynamic System Models, Vancouver,
include Raymond Carroll (Texas A&M), PEDS/PEDS_main.htm or contact
British Columbia, Canada
Malay Ghosh (University of Florida), Shota Gugushvili, Den Dolech 2,
This workshop aims to foster the growing
Michael Kosorok (The University of North Eindhoven, International 5612 AZ,
demand for research and collaboration
Carolina at Chapel Hill), Xihong Lin The Netherlands; +31 40 2478113;
between statisticians and dynamic systems
(Harvard University), Thomas Louis (The
gugushvili@eurandom.tue.nl.
modelers through a mixture of presenta-
Johns Hopkins University), and Pranab
tions about new statistical methods, novel
Sen (The University of North Carolina at
applications of dynamic systems, and areas
Chapel Hill). For more information, visit
››10–12—ITACOSM09 - First ITAlian
in need of further collaboration. Alongside
www.sph.emory.edu/srcos2009 or contact
COnference on Survey Methodology,
the goal of bringing researchers together
Bob Waggoner, 1518 Clifton Road, NE,
Siena, Tuscany, Italy
from diverse areas to share current research,
#318, Atlanta, GA 30322; (404)
This conference serves as a scientific forum
the workshop aims to transfer technol-
727-7693;
rwaggon@sph.emory.edu.
on development, testing, and application
of survey sampling methodologies in eco-
ogy and cultivate new research in applied
nomics, social and demographic sciences,
dynamics systems. For more information,
8–9—Statistical Modeling for Biological official statistics, and studies on biological
visit http://stat.sfu.ca/~dac5/workshop09
Systems: A Conference in Memory of and environmental phenomena. Keynote
or contact Jiguo Cao, Department
Andrei Yakovlev, Rochester, New York speakers include Yves Berger (University
of Statistics and Actuarial Science,
The Department of Biostatistics and of Southampton), Timothy Gregoire (Yale
BURNABY, British Columbia V5A1S6,
Computational Biology will host a scien- University), Carl Erik Särndal (University
Canada; (778) 782-7600;
jca76@sfu.ca.
tific conference to honor late chairman of Montréal), and Yves Tillè (Université
Andrei Yakovlev, who led a major expan- de Neuchatel). The deadline for title and
5–9—O-Bayes09, Philadelphia,
sion of the department, tripling its size extended abstract submission is March 31.
Pennsylvania
and greatly increasing its scope, while Notice of acceptance will be given by April
The 2009 International Workshop on
vigorously pursuing research programs in 15. For details, visit
www.unisi.it/eventi/
Objective Bayes Methodology will facilitate
a number of areas at the intersection of dmq2009 or contact Lorenzo Fattorini,
the exchange of recent research develop-
mathematics, statistics, and biology. Many University of Siena, Via Valdimontone 1,
ments in objective Bayes methodology and
of Yakovlev’s collaborators have accepted Siena, International 53100, Italy;
provide opportunities for new research-
invitations to participate as have other dis-
itacosm09@unisi.it.
ers to establish partnerships. O-Bayes09
tinguished researchers who have worked in
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