C
23–26—DAGStat2010: Statistics Under For details, contact Thierry Duchesne, contact Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan,
ALEND
One Umbrella, Dortmund, Germany Université Laval, Département de Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
DAGStat is a network of scientific and mathématiques et de statistique, Pavillon Hamilton, International L8S 4K1,
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professional organizations that develop Vachon, Québec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada; (905) 525-9140, Ext. 23420;
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and promote statistical theory and meth- Canada; (418) 656-2131, Ext. 5077;
bala@mcmaster.ca.
e
odology. The aim of the working group
thierry.duchesne@mat.ulaval.ca.
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is to offer a panel for shared activities
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and public relations to reach a stronger
25–27—Joint Research Conference
July
cognition of statistics. Lectures will cover
on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and 4–9—IWSM 2010, Glasgow,
aspects of theoretical and applied statistics.
Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland United Kingdom
For more information, visit www.statistik.
The Quality and Productivity Research The 25th International Workshop on
tu-dortmund.de/DAGStat2010/en or con-
Conference and the Spring Research Statistical Modeling (IWSM 2010) will
tact Jörg Rahnenführer, Vogelpothsweg
Conference on Statistics in Industry be hosted by the University of Glasgow in
87, Dortmund, International 44227,
and Technology will be held jointly at Scotland. For more information, visit or
Germany; +49 231 755 3121;
the National Institute of Standards and contact Claire Ferguson, Department of
rahnenfuehrer@statistik.tu-dortmund.de.
Technology (NIST). The goal of the con- Statistics, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow,
ference is to stimulate interdisciplinary International G12 8QW, Scotland; 0141
research among statisticians, engineers, and
May
330 5023;
c.ferguson@stats.gla.ac.uk.
physical scientists in quality and produc-
19–22—Conference on Nonparametric tivity, industrial needs, and the physical
*5–9—ISBIS-2010 (International
Statistics and Statistical Learning, sciences. The conference will feature pre-
Symposium on Business and Industrial
Columbus, Ohio sentations on statistical issues and research
Statistics), Slovenia
This conference will bring together approaches drawn from collaborative
The key themes of this conference are
researchers in nonparametrics and statisti- research. For more information, contact
industrial applications of statistical image
cal learning from academia, industry, and Will Guthrie, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
analysis, future directions for handling
government in an atmosphere focused 8980, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8980;
large and complex data sets, financial ser-
on the development of both statistical (301) 975-2854;
will.guthrie@nist.gov.
vices, health services, quality and produc-
theory and methods. The areas are broadly
tivity improvement, and decisionmaking in
defined, with nonparametrics encompass-
business and industry. For more informa-
ing distribution-free statistics, rank-based June
tion, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2010 or
and robust statistics, Bayesian nonparamet-
››28–7/2—ICORS 2010, Prague, contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68
ric methods, permutation-based methods,
Czech Republic 101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech
nonparametric regression, and density esti-
The International Conference on Robust Republic; +420 267 312 333; milena@
mation. Statistical learning includes a range
Statistics aims to be a forum for the
action-m.com.
of methods focused on the general goals of
development and application of robust
discovery, classification, and prediction. Six
statistical methods. It is an opportunity
27–31—LinStat 2010, Tomar, Portugal
prominent researchers will present plenary
to meet, exchange knowledge, and build
The aim of this conference is to bring
talks relating to both fields. There also
scientific contacts with others interested
together researchers sharing an interest in a
will be eight contributed paper sessions
in the subject. For more information, visit
variety of aspects of statistics and its appli-
and two contributed poster sessions where
icors2010.karlin.mff.cuni.cz or contact
cations to discuss current developments.
junior investigators and graduate students
Jana Jureckova, Department of Statistics,
There will be plenary talks and sessions
are expected to participate. For more infor-
Sokolovska 83, Prague 8, International
with contributed talks, as well as a special
mation, visit www.stat.osu.edu/~nssl2010 or
CZ-186 75, Czech Republic; icors2010@
session with talks by graduate students. For
contact Steven MacEachern, Department
karlin.mff.cuni.cz.
more information, visit www.linstat2010.
of Statistics, The Ohio State University,
ipt.pt or contact Francisco Carvalho,
1958 Neil Ave., Cockins Hall, Rm. 404,
29–7/1—International Conference on Estrada da Serra - Quinta do Contador,
Columbus, OH 43210-1247; (614) 292-
Probability Distributions and Related Tomar, International 2300-313, Portugal;
5843;
snm@stat.osu.edu.
Topics in Conjunction with NZSA +351249328100;
fpcarvalho@ipt.pt.
Conference, Palmerston North,
23–26—38th Annual Meeting of the
New Zealand
*31–8/5—2010 Joint Statistical
Statistical Society of Canada, Québec
This international conference is devoted
Meetings, Vancouver, British
City, Québec
to all aspects of distribution theory and its
Columbia, Canada
This conference will bring together
applications, including discrete, univariate,
JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) is the
academic, government, and industrial
and multivariate continuous distributions;
largest gathering of statisticians held in
researchers as well as users of statistics and
copulas; extreme values; skewed distribu-
North America. It is held jointly with
probability. Featured will be workshops
tions; conditionally specified distributions;
the American Statistical Association,
and invited and contributed sessions on
and life distributions in engineering and
the International Biometric Society
all areas of statistics and probability. About
survival analysis. For more information,
(ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of
450 statisticians are expected to participate.
visit
http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz or
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