15–17—Second International Workshop CD containing R programs. A proceedings information, visit http://icsa2.org/2009 or
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in Sequential Methodologies, Troyes, volume also is planned. For details, visit contact Ying Lu, 185 Berry Street, Suite
France www.cis.fordham.edu/QR2009 or contact 350, San Francisco, CA 94143-0946;
OF E IWSM is organized every two years and Hrishikesh Vinod, Economics Dept., 441 ying.lu@radiology.ucsf.edu.
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covers all aspects of sequential methodolo- E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458;
gies. Particular themes will include optimal (718) 817-4065; qssur@fordham.edu.
21–25—7th Workshop on Bayesian
ALEND
stopping, sequential analysis, sequential
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estimation, hypotheses testing, change-
Nonparametrics, Moncalieri
point detection and isolation, mathemati-
18–20—Econometrics, Time Series (Turin), Italy
cal finance, quality control, clinical trials,
Analysis, and Systems Theory: A The aim of this workshop is to high-
sequential methods in signal/image pro-
Conference in Honor of Manfred light the latest developments in Bayesian
cessing, sensors networks, surveillance and
Deistler, Vienna, Austria nonparametrics, covering a variety of
monitoring, fault detection and isolation,
The purpose of this conference is to cel- theoretical and applied topics. For more
and teaching sequential methodologies.
ebrate Manfred Deistler’s scientific achieve- information, visit bnpworkshop.carloalberto.
For more information, visit www.utt.fr/
ments. It will consist of a series of invited org or contact Pierpaolo De Blasi, via Real
iwsm2009 or contact Igor Nikiforov, UTT,
and contributed presentations. Invited Collegio 30, Moncalieri, International
12 rue Marie Curie BP 2060, Troyes,
speakers are Brian D.O. Anderson, Laurent 10024, Italy; +39 0116705282;
International 10010, France; +33 3 25 71
Baratchart, A. Ronald Gallant, Michel bnp@carloalberto.org.
56 78; Igor.Nikiforov@utt.fr.
Gevers, Marco Lippi, Ingmar Prucha, Peter
M. Robinson, and Jan Willems. For more
information, visit www.ihs.ac.at/etsast or
23–27—18th International Workshop
17–19—Summer Institute of Applied contact Benedikt Pötscher, Department
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS ’09,
Statistics, Provo, Utah of Statistics, University of Vienna,
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
The 34th Annual Brigham Young Vienna, International A-1010, Austria;
This workshop will stimulate the exchange
University Summer Institute of Applied +431 427738640; benedikt.poetscher@
of ideas and research at the interfaces of
Statistics will be presented by Di Cook of univie.ac.at.
matrix theory, statistics, and stochastic pro-
Iowa State University. “Exploring Data
cesses. It includes invited and contributed
Visually” teaches the process of extracting
talks and posters. For further information,
knowledge from data, using interactive
18–20—BISP6 - Bayesian Inference in visit www.um.sav.sk/en/iwms2009.html
graphics as an integral part of the statistical
Stochastic Processes, Bressanone/ or contact Viktor Witkovsky, Institute of
analysis. For more information, visit
Brixen, Italy Measurement Science, Slovak Academy
http://.statistics.byu.edu/summer_institute
This workshop will bring together experts of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava,
or contact Kathi Carter, 223 TMCB,
to review, discuss, and explore directions of International 84104, Slovakia; +421 2
Provo, UT 84602; (801) 422-4506;
development of Bayesian inference in sto- 591045 30; witkovsky@savba.sk.
kathi_carter@byu.edu.
chastic processes and in the use of stochas-
tic processes for Bayesian inference. There
will be sessions on Markov processes;
25–27—United States Conference on
››18—NIC-ASA Summer Workshop, state-space models; and spatial, empiri-
Teaching Statistics ’09, Columbus, Ohio
Northbrook, Illinois cal, birth-death, and branching processes.
The target audience for this conference is
The Northeastern Illinois Chapter of Theoretical and applied contributions
teachers of undergraduate and AP statistics.
the American Statistical Association are welcome. For more information, visit
Teachers of statistics at two-year colleges
(NIC-ASA) will host its annual summer www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/bisp6.html
and those planning a career in statistics
workshop, covering clinical trial designs or contact Fabrizio Ruggeri, via Tremelloni
education are especially encouraged to
for predictive biomarkers validation and 15, Milano, International 20133, Italy;
attend. USCOTS is a ‘working conference,’
pharmacogenomics. For details, visit www. +39 0223699521; bisp6@mi.imati.cnr.it.
with many opportunities for hands-on
amstat.org/chapters/Northeasternillinois or
activities, demonstrations, networking, and
contact Xuejun Peng, 675 North Field
idea sharing. Leaders in statistics educa-
Drive, Lake Forest, IL 60045;
21–24—ICSA 2009 Applied Statistics tion and assessment will give plenary talks,
xpeng@tgrd.com.
Symposium, San Francisco, California including Dani Ben-Zvi, George Cobb,
Short courses will be offered on June Peter Ewell, Ronald Wasserstein, and
21, with more than 50 scientific sessions Chris Wild. For more information, visit
18–19—Conference on Quantitative taking place from June 22–24. Keynote www.causeweb.org/uscots or contact Deb
Social Science Research Using R, speakers include Wing Hung Wong, Rumsey at rumsey@stat.ohio-state.edu.
Bronx, New York Nicholas Jewell, and Ronald Wasserstein.
This conference will focus on applications Contributed paper abstracts may be
of the R software and graphics system to submitted to Jiming Jiang at jiang@wald.
28–7/1—IMS Asia Pacific Rim
important policy and research problems. ucdavis.edu by May 1, 2009. The sympo-
Meetings, Seoul, South Korea
Papers presented will be both theoretical sium will also sponsor J-P Hsu student
This new meeting series will provide an
and applied. There will be poster and par- awards and travel grants, with the applica-
excellent forum for scientific communica-
allel sessions, and we expect to produce a tion deadline of April 1, 2009. For more
tion and collaboration among researchers
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