s
talks relating to both fields. There also applications, including discrete, univariate, largest gathering of statisticians held in
VENT
will be eight contributed paper sessions and multivariate continuous distributions; North America. It is held jointly with
and two contributed poster sessions where copulas; extreme values; skewed distribu- the American Statistical Association,
OF E junior investigators and graduate students tions; conditionally specified distributions; the International Biometric Society
AR
are expected to participate. For more infor- and life distributions in engineering and (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of
mation, visit www.stat.osu.edu/~nssl2010 or survival analysis. For more information, Mathematical Statistics, the Statistical
ALEND
contact Steven MacEachern, Department visit
http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz or Society of Canada, the International
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of Statistics, The Ohio State University, contact Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Indian Statistical Association, and
1958 Neil Ave., Cockins Hall, Rm. 404, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the International Chinese Statistical
Columbus, OH 43210-1247; (614) Hamilton, International L8S 4K1, Association. Attended by more than 5,500
292-5843;
snm@stat.osu.edu. Canada; (905) 525-9140, Ext. 23420; people, activities include oral presenta-
bala@mcmaster.ca. tions, panel sessions, poster presentations,
23–26—38th Annual Meeting of
continuing education courses, an exhibit
the Statistical Society of Canada,
hall, a placement service, society and
Québec City, Québec
July
section business meetings, committee
This conference will bring together
meetings, social activities, and network-
academic, government, and industrial
4–9—IWSM 2010, Glasgow,
ing opportunities. For more information,
researchers as well as users of statistics and
United Kingdom
visit
www.amstat.org/meetings or contact
probability. Featured will be workshops
The 25th International Workshop on
ASA Meetings Department, 732 North
and invited and contributed sessions on
Statistical Modeling (IWSM 2010) will
all areas of statistics and probability. About
be hosted by the University of Glasgow in
Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314;
450 statisticians are expected to participate.
Scotland. For more information, visit or
(888) 231-3473;
jsm@amstat.org.
For details, contact Thierry Duchesne,
contact Claire Ferguson, Department of
Université Laval, Département de mathé-
Statistics, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow,
matiques et de statistique, Pavillon Vachon,
International G12 8QW, Scotland; 0141
August
Québec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada; (418)
330 5023;
c.ferguson@stats.gla.ac.uk. 30–9/3—Prague Stochastics 2010,
656-2131, Ext. 5077; thierry.duchesne@
Prague, Czech Republic
››*5–9—ISBIS-2010 (International
mat.ulaval.ca.
Prague Stochastics 2010 is next in a series
Symposium on Business and Industrial
of international conferences on stochas-
Statistics), Slovenia
tics organized in Prague since 1956.
25–27—Joint Research Conference The key themes of this conference are
The scientific program will be aimed
on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and industrial applications of statistical image
at covering a wide range of stochastics,
Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland analysis, future directions for handling
with special emphasis on the topics of
The Quality and Productivity Research large and complex data sets, financial ser-
this lively field that have been pursued in
Conference and the Spring Research vices, health services, quality and produc-
Prague. For more information, visit www.
Conference on Statistics in Industry tivity improvement, and decisionmaking in
utia.cas.cz/pragstoch2010 or contact Lucie
and Technology will be held jointly at business and industry. For more informa-
Fajfrova, Pod Vodarenskou vezi 4, Prague
the National Institute of Standards and tion, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2010 or
8, International 18208, Czech Republic;
Technology (NIST). The goal of the con- contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68
pragstoch@utia.cas.cz.
ference is to stimulate interdisciplinary 101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech
research among statisticians, engineers, and Republic; +420 267 312 333; milena@
physical scientists in quality and produc-
action-m.com.
December
tivity, industrial needs, and the physical
sciences. The conference will feature pre-
27–31—LinStat 2010, Tomar, Portugal ››6–10—Australian Statistical
sentations on statistical issues and research
The aim of this conference is to bring Conference 2010, Fremantle,
approaches drawn from collaborative
together researchers sharing an interest in a West Australia
research. For more information, contact
variety of aspects of statistics and its appli- Delegates from all areas of work in statis-
Will Guthrie, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
cations to discuss current developments. tics will be encouraged to communicate
8980, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8980;
There will be plenary talks and sessions their knowledge and expertise and join
(301) 975-2854;
will.guthrie@nist.gov.
with contributed talks, as well as a special world-class Australian and international
session with talks by graduate students. For statisticians to discuss new work. The
more information, visit www.linstat2010. theme for the 2010 conference, “Statistics
June
ipt.pt or contact Francisco Carvalho, in the West: Understanding Our World,”
Estrada da Serra - Quinta do Contador, provides opportunities for presentations
29–7/1—International Conference on
Tomar, International 2300-313, Portugal; on a range of topics. For more informa-
Probability Distributions and Related
+351249328100;
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Topics in Conjunction with NZSA
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Avenue, Bateman, International 6150,
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This international conference is devoted
Columbia, Canada
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to all aspects of distribution theory and its
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