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Conference on Probability, Statistics, and Related Areas
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The Lamar University Mathematics Department will host a regional
591 7142;
hirotsu@ge.meisei-u.ac.jp.
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conference titled “Probability, statistics, and Related Areas” to
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take place in Beaumont, Texas, February 27–28, 2009.
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April
Participants include distinguished professors and scientific personalities,
graduate students, and undergraduate students. The first in a series, the
department plans to hold a conference annually featuring a different topic.
16–18—Twelfth International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Abstracts are due by January 15, 2009. For more information, visit
and Statistics, Clearwater Beach,
www.math.lamar.edu\statconference or contact conference organizer
Florida
Kumer Pial Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
This is an interdisciplinary gathering of
Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710;
kumer.das@lamar.edu.
researchers at the intersection of com-
puter science, statistics, and related areas.
Since its inception in 1985, the primary
goal has been to broaden research in both
of these fields by promoting the exchange
September 29, 2008. For more informa-
of ideas between them. We encourage the
tion, visit
www3.iam.metu.edu.tr/ setting for graduate students and others
submission of all papers in keeping with
juergenlehn or contact Zeynep new to the field to learn about cutting-
this objective. For more information,
Kalaylioglu, Department of Statistics, edge research by hearing talks, attending
visit www.ics.uci.edu/~aistats or contact
Middle East Technical University, tutorials (included with conference regis-
David van Dyk, 2206 Bren Hall, Irvine,
Ankara, International 06531, Turkey; tration), and participating in workshops
CA 92697-1250;
dvd@ics.uci.edu.
zeynepisil@yahoo.com. held on the last day of the conference.
Conference proceedings from previ-
ous years are available at
www.siam.org/
*19–21—21st Annual Kansas State
25—The 23rd New England Statistics
proceedings. For more information, visit
University Conference on Applied
Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut
www.siam.org/meetings/sdm09 or contact
Statistics in Agriculture, Manhattan,
The Department of Statistics of the
Chandrika Kamath, 7000 East Avenue,
Kansas
University of Connecticut will host this
L-561, Livermore, CA 94551; (925)
This conference will bring together
symposium to bring together statisti-
423-3768;
kamath2@llnl.gov.
statisticians from academia, industry,
cians from all over New England. Invited
and government to discuss ideas and
keynote speakers are James O. Berger
advances in the application of statistics
and Richard A. Davis. There will be
to solve agricultural research problems.
a half-day short course, “Hierarchical
May
The three-day conference will include a
Modeling for Spatially Referenced Data
3–8—Statistical Advances in
keynote speaker, workshop, and series of
with Applications to Environmental
Genome-Scale Data Analysis, Ascona,
contributed paper and poster presenta-
Sciences and Public Health.” There also
Switzerland
tions. For more information, visit www.
will be several theme and contributed
This interdisciplinary workshop will
ksu.edu/stats/agstat.conference or contact
paper sessions. Talks on all aspects of
address the challenges posed by the enor-
John Boyer, Kansas State University,
statistics and probability are invited. The
mous need for quantitative data integra-
Department of Statistics, 101 Dickens
NISS Affiliates Annual Meeting also will
tion and modeling in biology. Targeted
Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506; (785) 532-
be held in Storrs on April 24. For more
areas include emerging technologies,
0518;
jboyer@ksu.edu.
information, visit
www.stat.uconn.edu/
analysis of DNA composition data,
www or contact Ming-Hui Chen, 215
machine learning with genome-scale
Glenbrook Road, Unit 4120, Storrs, CT
biomolecular data, pharmacogenomics,
06269-4120; (860) 486-6984; mhchen@
››23–24—Recent Developments in
and systems approaches with heteroge-
stat.uconn.edu.
Applied Probability and Statistics,
neous data types. We strongly encour-
Ankara, Turkey
age pre-registration; in previous years,
The Institute of Applied Mathematics
places have filled up quickly. For details,
at Middle East Technical University
*30–5/2—SDM09: The Ninth SIAM
visit
stat.ethz.ch/talks/Ascona_09 or con-
and the Department of Mathematics
International Conference on Data
tact Cecilia Rey, Seminar für Statistik,
at Darmstadt Technical University are
Mining, Reno, Nevada
ETH Zentrum, LEO D11, Zürich,
organizing this workshop in memory
This conference provides a venue for
International 8092, Switzerland;
of Juergen Lehn, who passed away on
researchers to present their work in a
sekretariat@stat.math.ethz.ch.
peer-reviewed forum. It is also an ideal
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