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Meetings in 2001

  • XXI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models
  • Workshop QRANDOM on Quantum Stochastics
  • SPA'01: 27th International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
  • Third Bayesian Nonparametrics Inference Workshop
  • International conference on Extremes in Theory and Practice
  • The 23rd European Meeting of Statisticians
  • 53rd Session of ISI

  • XXI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models

  • Date:  28 January to 3 February 2001
  • Place:  Eger, Hungary
  • E-mail<stabil@neumann.math.klte.hu>, <kolchin@mi.ras.ru>
  • Web-pageshttp://neumann.math.klte.hu/~stabil, http://bernoulli.mi.ras.ru
  • The XXI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models is organized under the auspices of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Debrecen and Károly Eszterházy College of Education, Eger.

    Eger is situated in the northeastern Hungary between the Bükk and Mátra mountains about 130km to the north-east of Budapest. Eger with its historic monuments and therapeutic baths is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Hungary. Eger's surroundings also display some of most significant wineyards in Europe producing such famous brands of wines as leányka and the bull's blood.


    Scope of the seminar:

    This seminar is dedicated to the 70th jubilees of Mátyás Arató, the organizer and Chairman of some previous seminars, and Vladimir Zolotarev, the founder and Chairman of the seminars on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models.

    The program will include invited and contributed paper sessions, and poster sessions. The proceedings of the seminar will be published in the Journal of Mathematical Sciences. It is assumed that the résumés of the talks will be published in Theory of Probability and Its Applications.


    Programme and organizing committee

    Registration fees: 60 USD for the participants, 35 USD for accompanying persons, 30 USD for students and Ph.D. students.

    Accomodation:  approximately 35 USD per day per person in a double room at the hotel (meals included), 25 USD for students and Ph.D. students.

    Deadlines

    Pre-registration28 February 2000
    2nd announcement31 May 2000
    Submission of abstracts 15 October 2000
    3rd announcement20 December 2000

    Addresses for Pre-Registration Write to either of the following addresses:

    Further information is available from the Web pages indicated above.

    Workshop QRANDOM on Quantum Stochastics

  • Date:  12-16 February 2001
  • Place:  EURANDOM (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Web-pagehttp://www.math.uu.nl/people/gill/qrandom.html
  • BS-LiasionRichard Gill (Utrecht)
  • The workshop Qrandom is part of the Bernoulli Society's programme for the World Mathematical Year 2000. It will be held at the EURANDOM institute at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and is devoted to the following themes:

    The aim is to bring together physicists and mathematicians interested in stochastic aspects of quantum mechanics, especially as connected to recent developments in quantum computing, cryptography, communication. We will pay attention to stochastic process models in quantum optics, decoherence and more generally, of continuous time observation of a quantum system; to statistical inference on quantum states, to quantum tomography and to other approaches to quantum state reconstruction; and to the interplay between `quantum probability' and `classical probability' modelling.

    The meeting will take the form of a small-scale workshop of about four days with around 40 participants. Appended to this, as will be the case for the other World Mathematical Year meetings organized by the Bernoulli Society and other organizations, will be a more large-scale, open and public-oriented one day happening with further speakers, to bring to the public the role of mathematics in the modern world. On this day we will pay attention to philosophical aspects (locality, measurement problem), cosmology, and to societal/technological implications (quantum computers etc).

    Before the meeting, a Concentrated Advanced Course is planned, jointly organized with the MaPhySto network (based in Aarhus), in order to allow interested beginners to get a quick introduction to the subjects of the workshop. This course will either be held at EURANDOM or at the University of Utrecht.

    The workshop will be organized and prepared by a committee of three, namely

    SPA'01: 27th International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications

  • Date:  9-13 July 2001
  • Place:  Cambridge, UK
  • Organizer:  J.R. Norris
  • E-mail<spa27@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
  • Third Bayesian Nonparametrics Inference Workshop

  • Date:  27 July - 2 August 2001
  • Place:  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • ContactPaul Damien (University of Michigan, USA)
  • The third Bayesian Nonparametrics Inference Workshop continues the series of meetings previously held in Belgirate (Italy) and Reading (England). This series of international Bayesian meetings is fast becoming the major venue for presentation and dissemination of research on Bayesian nonparametric statistical methodology and its applications.

    Bayesian nonparametric statistics is one of the most dynamic areas of current statistical development. Not only is it rapidly developing in all of the classical areas of statistics, but it is leading the way in a host of more modern developments such as biomedicine, image processing, graphical models, geology, business (finance, economics and marketing) and much of computational statistics in general. In addition, it is becoming the method of choice in a host of application areas. Indeed, numerous groups of Bayesian nonparametric researchers are growing in other sciences, engineering, and industry; often, these groups do not contain statisticians. Finally, this spectacular growth in Bayesian statistics is truly a worldwide phenomenon, with large groups of Bayesian researchers developing in dozens of countries.

    The main purpose of the Workshops is to bring together this diverse community of Bayesians to focus on modern developments in the various areas and to initiate communication between the various groups. The Bayesian world is changing so rapidly, and in so many diverse ways, that it is increasingly difficult to monitor the various strands. There tends to be considerable duplication of effort because of lack of contact of the various groups, and breakthroughs in one group take increasingly longer to filter through to other Bayesian groups. The history and format of the Workshops strongly encourages interactions and knowledge transfer between the differing communities.

    The Workshop will consist of 40 to 45 invited talks by leaders in Bayesian Statistics and its applications; substantial time for floor discussion following each talk will be allowed. At most two poster session will also be held, allowing each participant the opportunity of presenting their research. Finally, a pre-conference tutorial will be held, aimed at graduate students and new researchers.


    Organizing committee

    International conference on Extremes in Theory and Practice

  • Date:  6-10 August 2001
  • Place:  Leuven, Belgium
  • ContactJan Beirlant (University Center of Statistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, de Croylaan 52B, B-3001 Heverlee; tel:+32-16-322789; fax:+32-16-322831)
  • Satellite meeting of 23rd EMS.

    The 23rd European Meeting of Statisticians

  • Date:  13-19 August 2001
  • Place:  Funchal (Island of Madeira), Portugal
  • Programme Chair:  Anthony C.Davison (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Special lectures

  • Forum lecture:  Peter Donnelly (Oxford): Some statistical challenges in modern genetics
  • Opening lecture:  Frank den Hollander (Eindhoven): Polymer chains
  • Closing lecture:  Andrew Barron (Yale): Information theory in probability and statistics

  • Special invited lectures

    Sessions. This is the list of the invited speakers sessions, with the name of the organizers, followed by the names of the speakers (where already known).

  • Bayesian nonparametrics:  Stephen Walker (UK)
  • Disease mapping and spatial epidemiology:  Sylvia Richardson (F)
  • Stochastic models in telecommunications:  Walter Willinger (USA)
  • Statistics of extremes:  Ivette Gomes (P)
  • Perfect simulation:  Jesper Mřller (DK): D.Murdoch (Western Ontario), E.Thönnes (Warwick), G.Nicholls (Auckland)
  • Probability and statistics in bioinformatics:  Timo Koski (SW)
  • Quantum probability and statistics:  Inge Helland (N): L.Accardi (Rome), V.P.Belavkin (Nottingham), R.D.Gill (Utrecht)
  • Causal inference and graphical modelling:  Nanny Wermuth (D)
  • Stochastic models in finance:  Wolfgang Runggaldier (Padua)
  • Statistics in the environmental sciences:  Feridun Turkman (P): J.A.Tawn (Lancaster), A.Soares (Lisbon), J.V.Zidek (British Columbia)
  • Statistical mechanics:  Pierre Picco (F): M.E.Vares (Rio de Janeiro), C.Newman (New York), F.Martinelli (Rome)
  • Recent developments in time series:  Jan Beran (D)
  • Probability approximations for rare events:  Holger Rootzen (SW)
  • Asymptotic statistics:  Aad van der Vaart (NL)
  • Concentration of measure:  A.N.Other

  • Programme Committee:

    53rd Session of ISI

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  • Date:  22-30 August 2001
  • Place:  Seoul, Korea
  • Web-sitehttp://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001
  • BS programme representativeNick Fisher
  • Organization The Hosting Body of the 53rd Session of the ISI consists of the Honorary Committee, the National Organizing Committee and the Session Patrons. The Honorary Committee will be finalized in 2000, possibly headed by the President of the Republic of Korea. The NOC is composed of representatives from the relevant ministries of the Korean government, statistical organizations and institutes, the city of Seoul, and many other influential bodies. The National Organizing Committee consists of a Council, an Executive Committee, an Executive Secretariat, and a Local Programme Committee. The National Statistical Office is primarily responsible for preparing the Seoul Session.

    ISI Programme Committee of the 53rd ISI Session

  • Chairman: Richard Gill (The Netherlands)
  • Standby-Chair: Jef Teugels (Belgium)
  • Vice-Chairman: Jae-Chang Lee (Korea)
  • Members: Fred Vogel (USA), Bo Bergman (Sweden), Murray Cameron (Australia), Anil Gore (India), Tom Louis (USA)
  • Topics and Organizers of the Invited Paper Meetings
  • Internet: network management and engineering performance, Glenn Stone (Australia)
  • Statistics in bioinformatics, Charles E. Lawrence (USA)
  • Perfect simulation, J. Fill (USA)
  • Spatial Statistical Modeling, with Environmental Applications, Noel Cressie (USA)
  • Clinical Trials of Herbal Medicine, Young Jack Lee (US NIH and Hanyang Univ, Seoul, Korea)
  • Large Data Bases and Medical Research,
  • Technology and Statistical Education, Tae Rim Lee (Korea)
  • Women's Contributions to Leadership in Statistical Education, Martha Aliaga (USA)
  • Quality issues in statistics, G. Brackstone (Canada)
  • Combining data from different sources, Tim Holt (UK)
  • The role of official statistics in university curricula, Reiner Staeglin (Germany)
  • Education and the Internet & Effective structures for the Net, Brian Phillips (Australia)
  • Internet and Innovative Data dissemination, Heli Jeskanen-Sundstrom (Finland)
  • Internet Data Collection, Warren Mitofsky (USA)
  • Disclosure Control and Data Access, Luigi Biggeri (Italy)
  • Multiple Frame Surveys, Alvaro Gonzalez-Villalobos (Argentina)
  • Measurement of E-commerce, Paul Cheung (Singapore)
  • Robust inference and model building, Elvezio Ronchetti (Switzerland)
  • Recent advances in survival analysis, Winfried Stute (Germany)
  • Concentration inequalities and information theory, Paul Shields (USA)
  • Hidden Markov chains, Timo Koski (Sweden)
  • Statistics for spatial and spatial-temporal processes, Adrian Baddeley (Australia)
  • Martingale methods in financial modelling, Marek Musiela (Australia)
  • Functional data analysis, J. O. Ramsay (Canada)
  • Analysis of high-dimensional data, David Rocke (USA)
  • Topics in probability theory, Paul Dupuis (USA)
  • Statistical physics methods and combinatorial optimization, Sung-Chul Lee (Korea)
  • Analysis of online monitoring data, Wolfgang Schmid (Germany)
  • Statistics in Information Retrieval, Jung Jin Lee (Korea)
  • Monte Carlo Filtering, Dominic Lee (Singapore)
  • Interactive Graphical Data Analysis / Statistical Visualization, Todd Ogden (USA)
  • Statistical Methods for Intrusion Detection, D.J. Marchette (USA)
  • Computational Issues in Nonparametric Bayes, Lancelot James (USA)
  • Statistical Image Analysis: Human Brain Mapping, Dan Naiman (USA)
  • Non- and Semiparametric Smoothing Regression, Michael Schimek (Austria)
  • Simulation from Complicated Multivariate Distributions, Ehsan Soofi (USA and Iran)
  • Optimization Techniques in Statistics, Yadolah Dodge (Switzerland)
  • Forum: IASE and statistics education in developing countries, Maria-Gabriella Ottaviani (Italy)
  • Undergraduate level statistics programmes, Shen Shir Ming, Hong Kong (China)
  • The Future of Statistics Education Research, Joan Garfield (USA)
  • Research on teaching statistics at School and University levels, Susan Starkings (UK)
  • Undergraduate statistics education in non-statistics degree programmes, Elisabeth Svenssen (Sweden)
  • Continuing Statistics Education in the Workplace, Carol Blumberg (USA)
  • Postgraduate training of statisticians, Gilberte Schuyten (Belgium)
  • Official statistics in government decentralisation, Pilar Martin-Guzman (Spain)
  • How to measure R&D outputs statistically?
  • Efficiency in technical cooperation in statistics, Tony Williams (U.K) and Ronald P.M. Luttikhuizen (The Netherlands)
  • Statistics and the mass media, Fred Ho, Hong Kong (China)
  • Ethical issues and official statistics, W. De Vries (Netherlands)
  • Development indicators: how to improve and harmonize them internationally, Michel Ward (UK)
  • SCORUS: A standard regional reference system as prerequisite for internationally comparable regional statistics, Rosa Giaimo (Italy)
  • SCORUS: Measuring inequalities in large urban areas, Markandey Rai (India)
  • The Role of Survey Sampling in the 21st Century, John Cornish (New Zealand)
  • Response Errors, Cathy Dippo (USA)
  • Standardised Survey Interviewing: Is it A Good Thing? Barbara Bailar (USA)
  • Linked Employer-Employee Data, Cynthia Clark (USA)
  • Multilevel Models for Survey Design and Analysis, Chris Skinner (UK)
  • Price/Production Indices, Dennis Trewin (Australia)
  • Edit and Imputation Techniques, John Kovar (Canada)
  • Statistics in Korea: History, Role in Economic Development and Current Statistical System,
  • Issues of Risk Assessment in Asian Countries, Byung-Soo Kim (Korea)
  • Marine resource estimation, Tore Schweder (Norway)
  • Recent work of Young Korean and Japanese probabilists, S. Ogawa (Japan)
  • Topics in human genetics,
  • Sampling problems in biology and epidemiology,
  • Noncompliance in clinical trials,
  • Relation between biomathematical modelling and biostatistics,
  • Spatial statistics in an agricultural environment, Alfred Stein (Netherlands)
  • The role of statistical science in the assessment of air quality, Lawrence H. Cox (USA)
  • Statistics for financial stability, B. Meganck (Belgium)
  • Millenium Anniversaries (Bayes, Bernoulli, Fechner), Chris Heyde (Australia)
  • Border and household surveys, Scott Meis (USA)
  • Contemporary Methods in Quality Management, Ronald Does (Netherlands)
  • Measuring the Status of Women and Minorities in Society, Nanjamma Chinnappa (India)

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