About 450 statisticians are expected to
July
the International Chinese Statistical
participate. For details, contact Thierry Association. Attended by more than 5,500
VENTS
Duchesne, Université Laval, Département
4–9—IWSM 2010, Glasgow, United
people, activities include oral presenta-
OF E de mathématiques et de statistique,
Kingdom
tions, panel sessions, poster presentations,
AR Pavillon Vachon, Québec, Quebec G1K
The 25th International Workshop on
continuing education courses, an exhibit
7P4, Canada; (418) 656-2131, Ext. 5077;
Statistical Modeling (IWSM 2010) will
hall, a placement service, society and
ALEND
thierry.duchesne@mat.ulaval.ca. section business meetings, committee
C
be hosted by the University of Glasgow in
Scotland. For more information, visit or
meetings, social activities, and network-
25–27—Joint Research Conference contact Claire Ferguson, Department of
ing opportunities. For more information,
on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Statistics, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow,
visit
www.amstat.org/meetings or contact
Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland International G12 8QW, Scotland; +0141
ASA Meetings Department, 732 North
The Quality and Productivity Research
330-5023;
c.ferguson@stats.gla.ac.uk.
Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314;
Conference and the Spring Research
(888) 231-3473;
jsm@amstat.org.
Conference on Statistics in Industry
*5–9—ISBIS-2010 (International
and Technology will be held jointly at
Symposium on Business and Industrial
the National Institute of Standards and
Statistics), Slovenia
August
Technology (NIST). The goal of the con-
The key themes of this conference are
ference is to stimulate interdisciplinary
industrial applications of statistical image
30–9/3—Prague Stochastics 2010,
research among statisticians, engineers,
analysis, future directions for handling large
Prague, Czech Republic
and physical scientists in quality and pro-
and complex data sets, financial services, Prague Stochastics 2010 is next in a series
ductivity, industrial needs, and the physical
health services, quality and productiv- of international conferences on stochas-
sciences. The conference will feature pre-
ity improvement, and decisionmaking in tics organized in Prague since 1956.
sentations on statistical issues and research
business and industry. For more informa- The scientific program will be aimed
approaches drawn from collaborative
tion, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2010 or at covering a wide range of stochastics,
research. For more information, contact
contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68 with special emphasis on the topics of
Will Guthrie, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech this lively field that have been pursued in
8980, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8980;
Republic; +420 267 312 333; milena@ Prague. For more information, visit www.
(301) 975-2854;
will.guthrie@nist.gov.
action-m.com.
utia.cas.cz/pragstoch2010 or contact Lucie
Fajfrova, Pod Vodarenskou vezi 4, Prague
27–31—LinStat 2010, Tomar, Portugal
8, International 18208, Czech Republic;
June The aim of this conference is to bring
pragstoch@utia.cas.cz.
together researchers sharing an interest in a
29–7/1—International Conference on
variety of aspects of statistics and its appli-
Probability Distributions and Related
cations to discuss current developments.
December
Topics in Conjunction with NZSA
There will be plenary talks and sessions
Conference, Palmerston North,
with contributed talks, as well as a special
6–10—Australian Statistical Conference
New Zealand
session with talks by graduate students. For
2010, Fremantle, West Australia
This international conference is devoted more information, visit www.linstat2010.
Delegates from all areas of work in statis-
to all aspects of distribution theory and its
ipt.pt or contact Francisco Carvalho,
tics will be encouraged to communicate
applications, including discrete, univariate, Estrada da Serra - Quinta do Contador,
their knowledge and expertise and join
and multivariate continuous distributions; Tomar, International 2300-313, Portugal;
world-class Australian and international
copulas; extreme values; skewed distribu- +351249328100;
fpcarvalho@ipt.pt.
statisticians to discuss new work. The
tions; conditionally specified distributions;
theme for the 2010 conference, “Statistics
and life distributions in engineering and
*31–8/5—2010 Joint Statistical
in the West: Understanding Our World,”
survival analysis. For more information,
Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia,
provides opportunities for presentations on
visit
http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz or
Canada
a range of topics. For more information,
contact Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) is the
visit
www.statsoc.org.au or contact Promaco
Hamilton, International L8S 4K1,
largest gathering of statisticians held in
Conventions, Unit 10 22 Parry Avenue,
Canada; (905) 525-9140, Ext. 23420;
North America. It is held jointly with
Bateman, International 6150, Australia;
bala@mcmaster.ca.
the American Statistical Association,
+61 8 9332 2900; promaco@promaco.
the International Biometric Society
com.au. ■
(ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, the Statistical
Society of Canada, the International
Indian Statistical Association, and
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