C
quickly. For details, visit
stat.ethz.ch/
June
surveillance and monitoring, fault detec-
ALEND
talks/Ascona_09 or contact Cecilia Rey, tion and isolation, and teaching sequential
Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zentrum,
*2–5—2009 Quality & Productivity
methodologies. Prospective authors are
AR
LEO D11, Zürich, International 8092,
Research Conference, Yorktown
invited to submit two-page extended
OF E
Switzerland;
sekretariat@stat.math.ethz.ch.
Heights, New York
abstracts of contributed papers by January
15. All abstracts should be submitted in
VENT
The conference theme is “Data, Statistics,
PDF format at
www.utt.fr/iwsm2009.
25–29—41st Annual Conference of the
and Vision Lead to Great Decisions.” The
S
Prospective organizers are invited to sub-
French Statistical Society, Bordeaux,
focus, as always, will be on presenting
mit session proposals with a short sum-
France
leading edge research by academic and
mary (goal and motivation) by December
For information, visit
www.sm.u-bordeaux2.
industrial statisticians and showing the
15. For more information, visit www.utt.
fr/JDS2009/index.html or contact Marta
best new statistical methods for improving
fr/iwsm2009 or contact Igor Nikiforov,
Avalos, 146 rue Leo Saignat, Bordeaux,
industrial quality and productivity. There
UTT, 12 rue Marie Curie BP 2060,
International 33076, France; 33 557 5715
will be a pre-conference, full day course
Troyes, International 10010, France; +33
34;
Marta.Avalos@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr.
on June 2, followed by two and a half
days of plenary/invited/contributed/tuto-
3 25 71 56 78;
Igor.Nikiforov@utt.fr.
rial sessions and special events. For more
*27–29—2009 Spring Research information, visit http://research.ihost.
➤18–20—Econometrics, Time Series
Conference on Statistics in Industry com/qprc_2009 or contact Emmanuel
Analysis, and Systems Theory: A
and Technology, Vancouver, British Yashchin, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Conference in Honor of Manfred
Columbia Ctr., P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights,
Deistler, Vienna, Austria
This conference aims to promote research NY 10598; (914)-945-1828;
The purpose of this conference is to cel-
in statistical methods that address prob-
yashchi@us.ibm.com.
ebrate Manfred Deistler’s scientific achieve-
lems in industry and technology and to
ments. It will consist of a series of invited
stimulate interaction among statisticians,
and contributed presentations. Invited
researchers in the application areas, and
5–9—O-Bayes09, Philadelphia,
speakers are Brian D.O. Anderson, Laurent
industrial practitioners. It also strives to
Pennsylvania
Baratchart, A. Ronald Gallant, Michel
encourage graduate students to pursue
The 2009 International Workshop
Gevers, Marco Lippi, Ingmar Prucha, Peter
careers in industry and technology; stu-
on Objective Bayes Methodology will
M. Robinson, and Jan Willems. The dead-
dents are charged a reduced registration
facilitate the exchange of recent research
line for submitting contributed abstracts
fee, and scholarships are given to selected
developments in objective Bayes meth-
to
etsast@ihs.ac.at is February 1. For more
graduate students who present contrib-
odology and provide opportunities for
information, visit
www.ihs.ac.at/etsast or
uted papers. For details, visit www.stat.sfu.
new researchers to establish partnerships.
contact Benedikt Pötscher, Department of
ca/~boxint/src2009 or contact Boxin Tang,
O-Bayes09 also will further crystallize
Statistics, University of Vienna, Vienna,
Department of Statistics and Actuarial
objective Bayes methodology as an estab-
International A-1010, Austria; +431
Science, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A
lished area for statistical research. The
427738640;
benedikt.poetscher@univie.ac.at.
1S6, Canada, 778-782-4898,
workshop will consist of invited talks,
boxint@stat.sfu.ca. followed by discussion, and one or more
sessions dedicated to contributed posters.
➤18–20—BISP6 - Bayesian Inference
The first day of the workshop will include
in Stochastic Processes, Bressanone/
31–6/3—37th Annual Meeting of
longer ‘tutorial’ sessions. For more infor-
the Statistical Society of Canada,
Brixen, Italy
mation, visit
http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/
Vancouver, Canada
This workshop will bring together experts
statweb/Conference/OBayes09/OBayes.html
This conference will bring together
to review, discuss, and explore directions
or contact Linda Zhao, 3730 Walnut St.,
academic, governmental, and industrial
of development of Bayesian inference
Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-8228;
researchers, as well as users of statistics
in stochastic processes and in the use of
lzhao@wharton.upenn.edu.
and probability. It will present workshops
stochastic processes for Bayesian infer-
and invited and contributed sessions.
ence. There will be sessions on Markov
The SSC features sections in biostatistics, ➤15–17—Second International
processes; state-space models; and spatial,
survey methods, business and industrial Workshop in Sequential Methodologies,
empirical, birth-death, and branching
statistics, and probability. Consequently, Troyes, France
processes. Theoretical and applied contri-
the program will include papers in all IWSM is organized every two years and
butions are welcome. For more informa-
areas of statistics and probability. About covers all aspects of sequential method-
tion, visit
www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/
450 statisticians are expected to partici- ologies. Particular themes will include
bisp6.html or contact Fabrizio Ruggeri,
pate. For more information, visit www.ssc. optimal stopping, sequential analysis,
via Tremelloni 15, Milano, International
ca or contact Christian Léger, University sequential estimation, hypotheses test-
20133, Italy; +39 0223699521; bisp6@
of Montréal, Department of Mathematics ing, changepoint detection and isolation,
mi.imati.cnr.it.
and Statistics, CP 6128 Succursale
mathematical finance, quality control,
Centreville, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7,
clinical trials, sequential methods in sig-
Canada; (514) 343-7824; leger@dms.
nal/image processing, sensors networks,
umontreal.ca.
DECEMBER 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 51
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82