First IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting
Considered a Success
Byeong u. Park, Chair of the Local APRM Organizing Committee, and Feifang Hu and Runze Li, co-chairs of the
APRM scientific Program Committee
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Despite cancellations due to the flu
pandemic and funding cuts, more than
700 people attended …
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T
he inaugural meeting of Despite cancellations due
the IMS Asia Pacific Rim to the flu pandemic and fund-
Meeting (IMS-APRM) ing cuts, more than 700 people
took place at Seoul National attended the 386 presentations.
University (SNU) in Seoul, South The meeting opened with the
Korea, June 28–July 1. The new poster session, which was fol-
meeting series provides a forum lowed by a welcome reception
for researchers in Asia and the held in the University Cultural
Pacific Rim to communicate Center. The second day began
and collaborate and promotes with opening remarks by Byeong
communication and collabora- U. Park, chair of the local orga-
Peter Bickel gives the statistics plenary lecture.
tion between area researchers and nizing committee; Shin Bok Kim,
those from other parts of vice president of SNU; Jongwoo
the world. Jeon, president of the Korean
The program covered a range Statistical Society (KSS); Jianqing
of topics in statistics and prob- Fan, IMS past-president; Sastry
ability, highlighting recent Pantula, president-elect of the
developments and a variety of American Statistical Association;
modern research topics and Runze Li, co-chair of the scientific
applications. Plenary lectures program committee; and Bickel.
were given by Peter Bickel (statis- The two plenary lectures ran in
tics) and Masatoshi Fukushima parallel after the opening remarks.
(probability). There were 17 Bickel spoke about approaches to
distinguished lecture sessions, taking advantage of sparsity in
44 invited sessions, 16 topic- large p and small n problems,
contributed sessions, 13 contrib- while Fukushima gave a review
uted sessions, and 1 large poster of stochastic calculus in
session. Distinguished lecturers Markov processes.
included Tony Cai, Louis Chen, A half-day excursion was made
Jianqing Fan, Peter Hall, Xuming throughout seoul on the third
He, Sangyeol Lee, Xihong Lin, day of the conference. About 300
Zhengyan Lin, Jun Liu, J. S. people attended a banquet and
Masatoshi Fukushima gives the probability plenary Marron, Rahul Mukerjee, Sastry cultural program at Hotel Lottea.
lecture. G. Pantula, John Robinson, The banquet was presided over by
Xiaotong Shen, John Jen Tai, Na Ri, winner of the 2008 Miss
Katsuto Tanaka, and Mark van Korea Pageant and a third-year
der Laan. statistics student.
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