C
ate students to pursue careers in industry leading edge research by academic and and Ronald Wasserstein. Contributed paper
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and technology; students are charged a industrial statisticians and showing the abstracts may be submitted to Jiming Jiang
reduced registration fee, and scholarships best new statistical methods for improving at
jiang@wald.ucdavis.edu by May 1, 2009. AR
are given to selected graduate students who industrial quality and productivity. There The symposium will also sponsor J-P Hsu
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present contributed papers. For details, visit will be a pre-conference, full day course student awards and travel grants, with the
www.stat.sfu.ca/~boxint/src2009 or con- on June 2, followed by two and a half application deadline of April 1, 2009. For
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tact Boxin Tang, Department of Statistics
days of plenary/invited/contributed/ more information, visit
http://icsa2.org/2009
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and Actuarial Science, Burnaby, British
tutorial sessions and special events. For or contact Ying Lu, 185 Berry Street, Suite
Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada, (778) 782-
more information, visit
research.ihost.com/ 350, San Francisco, CA 94143-0946;
4898,
boxint@stat.sfu.ca.
qprc_2009 or contact Emmanuel Yashchin,
ying.lu@radiology.ucsf.edu.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr., P.O. Box
31–6/3—37th Annual Meeting of the
218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; (914)
21–25—7th Workshop on Bayesian
Statistical Society of Canada, Vancouver,
945-1828;
yashchi@us.ibm.com.
Nonparametrics, Moncalieri (Turin), Italy
Canada The aim of this workshop is to highlight
This conference will bring together aca-
➤ 5–9—O-Bayes09, Philadelphia,
the latest developments in Bayesian non-
demic, governmental, and industrial
Pennsylvania
parametrics, covering a variety of theoretical
researchers, as well as users of statistics and
The 2009 International Workshop on
and applied topics. For more information,
probability. It will present workshops and
Objective Bayes Methodology will facilitate
visit
bnpworkshop.carloalberto.org or contact
invited and contributed sessions. The SSC
the exchange of recent research develop-
Pierpaolo De Blasi, via Real Collegio 30,
features sections in biostatistics, survey
ments in objective Bayes methodology and
Moncalieri, International 10024, Italy; +39
methods, business and industrial statistics,
provide opportunities for new researchers
0116705282;
bnp@carloalberto.org.
and probability. Consequently, the program
to establish partnerships. O-Bayes09 also
will include papers in all areas of statistics
will further crystallize objective Bayes meth-
23–27—18th International Workshop
and probability. About 450 statisticians are
odology as an established area for statistical
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS ’09,
expected to participate. For more informa-
research. The workshop will consist of invit-
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
tion, visit
www.ssc.ca or contact Christian
ed talks, followed by discussion, and one
This workshop will stimulate the exchange
Léger, University of Montréal, Department
or more sessions dedicated to contributed
of ideas and research at the interfaces of
of Mathematics and Statistics, CP 6128
posters. The first day of the workshop will
matrix theory, statistics, and stochastic pro-
Succursale Centreville, Montréal, Quebec
include longer ‘tutorial’ sessions. For more
cesses. It includes invited and contributed
H3C 3J7, Canada; (514) 343-7824;
information, visit
stat.wharton.upenn.edu/ talks and posters. For further information,
leger@dms.umontreal.ca.
statweb/Conference/OBayes09/OBayes.html visit
www.um.sav.sk/en/iwms2009.html
or contact Linda Zhao, 3730 Walnut St., or contact Viktor Witkovsky, Institute of
Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 898-8228; Measurement Science, Slovak Academy
June
lzhao@wharton.upenn.edu. of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava,
International 84104, Slovakia; +421 2
*2–5—2009 Quality & Productivity 21–24—ICSA 2009 Applied Statistics
591045 30;
witkovsky@savba.sk.
Research Conference, Yorktown Heights, Symposium, San Francisco, California
New York Short courses will be offered on June 21, 28–7/1—IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings,
The conference theme is “Data, Statistics, with more than 50 scientific sessions taking Seoul, South Korea
and Vision Lead to Great Decisions.” The place from June 22–24. Keynote speakers This new meeting series will provide an
focus, as always, will be on presenting include Wing Hung Wong, Nicholas Jewell, excellent forum for scientific communica-
109th Meeting of the
Committee on National Statistics
Friday, May 8, 2009
NAS Keck Center, Room 100, 500 5th St. NW, Washington, DC
Public Symposium and Reception, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Theme: Federal Statistics in the 21st Century*
Cosponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science
*Papers will be presented and published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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