Quality and Productivity and Physical and Engineering Sciences
Fall Technical Conference 2007
Jeffery J. Luner, SPES FTC Program Representative, and J. D. Williams, Q&P FTC Program Representative
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f you happen to run into Additionally, two awards 19–21. The conference will be held
someone who is nicely were presented for papers pub- on the campus of Georgia Institute of
tanned, chances are they lished in Technometrics. The Technology and the Georgia Tech Hotel
were at this year’s Fall Jack Youden Prize for the best and Conference Center.
Technical Conference. The expository article was present- The purpose of the Spring Research
51st annual FTC was hosted ed to Crystal Linkletter, Derek Conference is to promote research in
in Jacksonville, “where Florida Bingham, Nicholas Hengartner, statistical methods that address prob-
begins.” Attendees listened to a David Higdon, and Kenny Q. Ye lems in industry and technology. This
variety of speakers from industry, aca- for their paper, “Variable Selection for focus will cover a range of application
demia, and the consulting world present a Gaussian Process Models in Computer areas, including manufacturing, logis-
range of statistical topics, including design Experiments,” which was published in tics, health systems, and information
of experiments, statistical process control, the November 2006 issue. The Frank sciences. The conference is intended to
Six Sigma, and reliability. Thanks and Wilcoxon Prize for the best practical stimulate interaction among statisticians,
congratulations to Jim Simpson, general application paper was awarded to Dale N. researchers in the application areas, and
conference chair; John Faison, local con- Anderson, David C. Stromswold, Sharon industrial practitioners. It will provide a
ference chair; and Jorge Romeu, short C. Wunschel, Anthony J. Peurrung, forum for participants to describe current
course chair. Thanks also to the commit- and Randy R. Hansen for their paper, research, identify important problems
tee members who worked long and hard “Detection and Location of Gamma-Ray and areas of application, and formulate
to make the conference a success. Sources with a Modulating Coded Mask,” future research directions.
Richard F. Gunst of Southern published in the May 2006 issue. Plenary speakers for the 2008 SRC
Methodist University delivered the plenary In order to make the 2008 FTC in include Peter Bickel of the University of
address, describing the collaborative effort Phoenix-East/Mesa, Arizona, as success- California, Berkeley; James Glimm of the
between the Center for Statistical Research ful as this year’s conference, consider University at Stony Brook; and Zhong
and Southern Methodist University’s submitting an abstract to Program Chair L i n Wang of Georgia Tech.
Medical Center in the search for clues to J. D. Williams of GE Global Research. Travel awards for up to
diagnosing Gulf War Syndrome. There Or, pass along ideas for topics you a $700 reimbursement
also were a number of invited sessions would like to hear about to the will be available to
organized by the sponsoring organiza- program committee. The call for qualified students
tions. Additionally, Technometrics and the papers can be found at www. who want to par-
Journal of Quality Technology highlight
asq.org/cpi. The theme for ticipate in the
papers from their recent issues. the 2008 FTC is “Statistics conference. The
Several prestigious awards were pre- and Quality: Coming to application pack-
sented at the conference. This year, the the Table for Growth and age should include
Statistics Division honored Vijay Nair Improvement.” In recent a CV, transcript,
of the University of Michigan by select- years, we have seen a cor- presentation title and
ing him to present the W. J. Youden porate emphasis on sustain- abstract, and recommen-
Memorial Address, “Industrial Statistics: able growth. We hope you dation letter from the major thesis
The Gap Between Research and Practice.” will submit your ideas about how statis- advisor. The deadline for the application
The Shewell Award, for best presenta- tics and quality can and have helped to is February 1, 2008. Submit applications
tion and supporting documents at the grow a company. The deadline to submit to Kwok Tsui, School of Industrial and
2006 FTC, was awarded to Flor Castillo abstracts is February 22, 2008. Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute
and Jeff Sweeney of the Dow Chemical of Technology, Campus Box 0205, 765
Company for their presentation, “Split-
Spring Research Conference 2008
Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205.
Plot Experimental Designs in a High-
Paul Kvam, Physical and Engineering
For conference details, contact Paul
Throughput Reactor.” The Hunter Award,
Science SRC Program Representative
Kvam at
pkvam@isye.gatech.edu, Jye-
in honor of ASQ Statistics Division’s Chyi Lu at
jclu@isye.gatech.edu, or Tsui
founding chair, William G. Hunter, was
The 2008 Spring Research Conference
at
ktsui@isye.gatech.edu. n
bestowed upon Thong Ngee Goh of the
on Statistics in Industry and Technology
National University of Singapore.
will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, May
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