The Applied Probability Trust in its 38th YearTopReports on Recent ActivitiesMeetings in 2002

Meetings in 2002

  • 5th International Conference on Operations Research Optimization, Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Economics and Algorithms
  • The Fifth German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics
  • Workshop on Nonparametric Smoothing in Complex Statistical Models
  • 34th Journées de Statistique
  • A conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of B.V.Gnedenko
  • SPA 2002: 28th International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
  • The 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference
  • 17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Statistical Modelling in Society
  • Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics
  • Symposium on Stochastics and Applications (SSA)
  • Statistics in Genetics
  • 24th European Meeting of Statisticians
  • Second Annual Conference on Business and Industrial Statistics

  • 5th International Conference on Operations Research Optimization, Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Economics and Algorithms

  • Date:  4-8 March 2002
  • Place:  Havana, Cuba
  • ContactCarlos Bouza
  • Organizing bodies 
    Universidad de La Habana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid

    Cosponsors 
    Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigación Operativa, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste, International Mathematical Union, Multicriteria Decision Making Society, Sociedad Cubana de Matemática y Computación

    Program Committee 
    S.Allende (Havana), L.Alvarez (Havana), J.M.Bernardo (Valencia), R. Biscay (Havana), C.Bouza (Havana), O.Bunke (Berlin), J.Climacao (Lisbon), B.Cornet (Paris), J.Daduna (Berlin), S.Fläm (Bergen), G.Gallo (Pisa), M.Graña (San Sebastian), Jürgen Guddat (Chair, Berlin), X.Guyon (Paris), C.Herrero (Alicante), C.Hervés (Vigo), D.Hinrichssen (Bremen), T.Ichiishi (Columbus), A.Iussem (Rio de Janeiro), A.Joffre (Santiago de Chile), G.Joya (Malaga), P.Kall (Zürich), N.Keiding (Copenhagen), D.Klatte (Zürich), N.Maculan (Rio de Janeiro), A.Marín (Madrid), K.Marti (Munich), P.Michelon (Avignon), C.Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro), L.Rodríguez-Marín (Madrid), W.Römisch (Berlin), G.Rubino (Rennes), J.Rückman, (Ilmenau), A. Ruiz (Havana), S.Sorin (Paris), G.Styan (Montreal), B.Wegner (Berlin), A.Weintraub (Santiago de Chile), B.A.Wickström, (Berlin), J.Zowe (Erlangen-Nurenberger).

    Organizing Committee 
    Sira Allende (Chair, Havana), H.Arazoza (Havana), M.L.Baguer (Havana), G.Calvillo (Mexico DF), A.Coca (Lima), M.Cotrell (Paris), F.Cucker (Hong-Kong), M.Florenzano (Paris), I.Gil (Havana), A.Gómez (Havana), E.Gori (Udine), J.Guddat (Berlin), R.Hing (Santa Clara), A.Kakes (Havana), M.Lassonde (Pointe a Pitre), H.Läuter (Potsdam), I.Loisseau (Buenos Aires), A.Marrero (Havana), E.Mendez (Havana), A.Mesa (Havana), P.Olivares (Havana), J.Otero (Havana), L.Paradena (Santiago de Chile), L.Pedreira (La Coruña), L.Rodríguez-Marín (Madrid), A.Ruiz (Havana), R.Steuer (Georgia), V.Trejos (San José), B.Vitoriano (Madrid), D.Vilariño (Havana)

    Topics 
    Optimization, probability and statistics, mathematical economics, algorithms, multicriteria decision making, systems and control.

    Information

  • Prof. Dr. J.Guddat:  Institüt fur Mathematik, Humboldt Universität-Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany. Fax [49-30] 2478677
    <guddat@mathematik.hu-berlin.de>,
    <kerger@mathematik.hu-.berlin.de>
  • Prof. Dr. S.Allende:  Facultad de Matemática y Computación, Universidad de La Habana, San Lázaro y L.Habana,4 Cuba.
  • Prof. Dr. L. Rodríguez Marín:  Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. <lromarin@ind.uned.es>
  • Optimization and Statistics Working Days 
    Symposia on Parametric and Discrete Optimization, Mathematical Statistics, Dynamic Systems and related topics will be developed within the frame of the Working Days. Workshop on `Biometry and applications of biomathematics'.

    Submission of papers 
    Those participants who want to present a paper must send a short abstract of the paper (about 100 words) together with the registration form. The Program Committee will decide on the acceptance of the submitted papers. A number of the presented papers will be published in a volume of the journal Investigación Operacional. The selection will be based on the ususal refereing process. To simplify the publishing process, every speaker must bring to the conference two copies of his paper and a (3.5") diskette with the corresponding TeX or Word file. Word files are specially welcome.

    The Fifth German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics

  • Date:  19-22 March 2002
  • Place:  University of Magdeburg, Germany
  • Contact<stoch2002@uni-magdeburg.de>
  • Web-sitehttp://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/stoch2002
  • In the tradition of the previous conferences, hold in Marburg 1993, Freiberg 1996, Munich 1998, and Hamburg 2000, the `Magdeburger Stochastik-Tage'  provides an international forum for presentation and discussions of new results in the area of probability and statistics. The conference is open for all participants fom universities, business, administration and industry.

    Program Committee: Gerd Christoph (Magdeburg), Lutz Duembgen (Luebeck), Jürgen Gaertner (Berlin), Ursula Gather (Dortmund), Norbert Henze (Karlsruhe), Claudia Klüppelberg (Munich), Volker Nollau (Dresden), Volker Schmidt (Chair, Ulm), Winfried Stute (Giessen).

    Local Organizing Committee: Gerd Christoph (Chair), Norbert Gaffke (Vice-Chair), Berthold Heiligers, Waltraud Kahle, Axel Lehmann, Burkhard Thiele

    Address:

    Magdeburger Stochastik-Tage 2002
    c/o Prof. Dr. Gerd Christoph
    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
    Institut für Mathematische Stochastik
    Universitätsplatz 2
    D-39106 Magdeburg
    Germany
    Fax:   0049-(0)391-67 11172
    Phone: 0049-(0)391-67 18652


    Sections, Organizers & Invited Speakers

    The Stochastik-Tage are organized in sections, all of which comprise an invited survey lecture (40min) and contributed lectures (25 min, including discussion) in parallel sessions. Additionally, there will be three invited plenary lectures (including opening and closing lecture), a panel discussion on the topic `Stochastik für die Schule', and a conference dinner. Upon request, poster sessions will be enabled; software presentations are also possible.

    During the conference, an assembly of the Fachgruppe Stochastik will take place.


    Plenary Lectures

    Panel Discussion A panel discussion on the topic "Stochastik für die Schule" will be held under the chairmanship of Norbert Henze (Karlsruhe). The following persons have agreed to be discussants: Joachim Engel (Ludwigsburg), Heinz Klaus Strick (Leverkusen), Sabine Zoellner (Stendal).

    Award The prize of the Fachgruppe Stochastik which is announced for outstanding doctoral dissertations will be awarded during the conference. See
    http://wws.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~netwww/fgshtml/foerderpreis

    Conference languages are German and English.

    Workshop on Nonparametric Smoothing in Complex Statistical Models

  • Date:  28 April - 3 May 2002
  • Place:  Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland
  • Organizers:  Theo Gasser, Hans-Ruedi Künsch, Enno Mammen
  • Web-sitehttp://www.unizh.ch/biostat/Smoothing2002/
  • The workshop deals with regression problems with possibly many predictors, and partly with classification problems. Nonparametric, additive and semiparametric models will be of central interest. The workshop takes place in a beautiful conference centre managed by ETH Zürich with restaurant and hotel facilities, enabling intense contacts between participants. Attendance is limited to about 50 persons.

    34th Journées de Statistique

  • Date:  13-17 May 2002
  • Place:  Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Organizer:  Leopold Simar
  • Contact:  Claudia Lemoine <lemoine@stat.ucl.ac.be>
  • Web-sitehttp://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/jsbl2002
  • The 34th Journées de Statistique of the Société Française de Statistique will be held in Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. This event is jointly organized by the Institutes of Statistics of the Université libre de Bruxelles and of the Université catholique de Louvain.

    The main topics include statistical analysis of functional data, actuarial and financial econometrics, resampling methods, nonparametric inference and modelling, voice and writing recognition, epidemics, genomics as well as mathematical statistics. In addition to these main topics, a number of invited sessions will focus on various subjects.

    The conference is open to all persons interested in statistics, affiliated to universities, national institutes of statistics, business or industry.

    For further information, please consult :

    JSBL 2002
    Institute of Statistics
    Université catholique de Louvain
    20 Voie du Roman Pays
    B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
    Belgium
    Telephone: +32 10 47 43 54
    Fax: +32 10 47 30 32

    A conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of B.V.Gnedenko

  • Date:  3-7 June 2002
  • Place:  Kyiv, Ukraine
  • ContactOleg Klesov (National Technical University of Ukraine, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Probability Theory, pr.Peremogy 37, 02056 Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • Web-sitehttp://ln.com.ua/~tbimc/gnedenko
  • The conference will focus on topics close to wide range of scientific interests of B.V.Gnedenko. The aim is twofold: first, to highlight the contributions of B.V.Gnedenko in probability theory and its applications, history of mathematics, problems of educations, and, second, to present the developments of his ideas as well as the current trends in the theory of probability and related fields.

    Organizing committee V.S.Korolyuk (co-head), Yu.V.Prokhorov (co-head), V.V.Buldygin, S.S.Demidov, D.B.Gnedenko, I.A.Ibragimov, V.I.Khokhlov, O.I.Klesov, Yu.G.Kondratiev, Yu.S.Mishura, M.O.Perestyuk, N.I.Portenko, Yu.A.Rozanov, A.M.Samoilenko, V.V.Sazonov, B.A.Sevastyanov, A.N.Shiryaev, Ya.G.Sinai, M.I.Skil', V.V.Skopenko, A.V.Skorokhod, N.N.Vakhania, M.I.Yadrenko, O.K.Zakusylo, V.M.Zolotarev.


    Sections and organizers

    SPA 2002: 28th International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications

  • Date:  1-5 July 2002
  • Place:  The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Contact<spa@ms.unimelb.edu.au>
  • Web-sitehttp://www.spa28.ms.unimelb.edu.au
  • The Scientific Programme Committee includes: S.Asmussen, P.J.Brockwell, L.H.Y.Chen, F.Den Hollander, C.C.Heyde, G.R.Grimmett, I.A.Ibragimov, O.Zeitouni.

    The Organizing Committee consists of: T.Brown (chairman), K.Borovkov (sci. secretary), G.Byrnes, K.Hamza, B.Hughes, F.Klebaner, A.Sudbury, R.Watson, N.Wormald, A.Xia

    The topics include, but are not limited to: stochastic analysis, discrete random processes and randomised algorithms, topics in limit theorems, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Markov processes, random processes in random environments, point processes, as well as application areas such as: stochastic processes in finance and insurance, stochastic processes in physics, applications to telecommunications, time series, modelling in biology and medicine.

    The 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference

  • Date:  7-10 July 2002
  • Place:  Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  • Web-sitehttp://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/2002symp
  • To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, will host the 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference from 7 to 10 July 2002, jointly organized by the Institute of Statistical Science, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), Executive Yuan, R.O.C., and the East-Asian and Pacific Regional Committee (EAPRC) of the Bernoulli Society.

    17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Statistical Modelling in Society

  • Date:  8-12 July 2002
  • Place:  Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Crete, Greece
  • Contact<d.stasinopoulos@unl.ac.uk>
  • Web-sitehttp://www.unl.ac.uk/iwsm
  • The International Workshop on Statistical Modelling concentrates on the various aspects of statistical modelling, including theoretical developments, applications and computational methods. Papers motivated by real practical problems are encouraged, but theoretical contributions addressing problems of practical importance or related to software developments are also welcome.

    The scientific programme is characterized by having invited lectures and a pre-workshop tutorial, contributed papers, posters and software demonstrations. Contributed papers should be suitable for a 20 to 30 minute oral presentation (including discussion) and focus on motivation, statement of key results and conclusions, and emphasize examples, wherever possible. Submissions are especially encouraged in the following areas: Health, Environment, Education, Economy, Social Issues, Missing data, mixed effects models, repeated measurements and event history analysis.

    Students are encouraged to attend the workshop. The programme is designed to allow for discussions and interchange between junior and senior scientists. A special session is devoted to students contributions, and an award for the best student presentation will be given.

    Scientific Programme Committee: Abdel Babiker (MRC, UK), Petros Dellaportas (AUEB, Greece), Ludwig Fahrmeir (Munich, Germany), Bob Gilchrist (UNL, UK), Bent Jřrgensen (Odense, Denmark), Klea Katsouyanni (AMS, Greece), Göran Kauermann (Glasgow, UK), John Panaretos (AUEB, Greece), Clive Richarson (Panteion University of Athens, Greece), Mikis Stasinopoulos (UNL, UK, coordinator), Giota Touloumi (AMS, Greece), Geert Verbeke (Leuven, Belgium), Constantin Yiannoutsos (Harvard, USA).

    Local Organizing Committee: Christina Bamia (AMS, Athens), Chrys Caroni (NTUA, Athens), Dimitris Karlis (AUEB, Athens), Klea Katsouyanni (AMS, Athens), Markos Koutras (PP, Pireas), Vana Sypsa (AMS, Athens), Christos Skiadas (PK, Chania), Mikis Stasinopoulos (UNL, London), Giota Touloumi (AMS, Athens), Anastasia Tzonou (AMS, Athens).

    Further information details about invited speakers, registration for the workshop, instructions for authors, deadlines and further information will be available from the workshop homepage, or contact the organizer: Mikis Stasinopoulos, STORM, University of North London, Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, UK. Phone: +44 20 7753 5792, fax: +44 20 7753 5793, E-mail: <d.stasinopoulos@unl.ac.uk>.

    Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics

  • Date:  15-19 July 2002
  • Place:  Knossos Royal Village, Limin Hersonissou, Crete, Greece
  • Organizers:  Michael G.Akritas and Dimitris N.Politis
  • Web-sitehttp://www.stat.psu.edu/~npconf
  • The meeting is cosponsored by Bernoulli Society, IMS and the Nonparametrics Section of ASA.


    Main themes

    Deadline for submitting contributed papers: 30 April 2002

    Symposium on Stochastics and Applications (SSA)

  • Date:  15-17 August 2002
  • Place:  National University of Singapore
  • Contact<ssa@math.nus.edu.sg> fax: 65-779 5452
  • Web-sitehttp://www.math.nus.edu.sg/ssa
  • An ICM-2002 Satellite Conference to be held in the National University of Singapore (NUS)


    Topics


    Organizing Committee


    Invited Speakers

    Contact Information

    The Organising Committee
    SSA 2002
    c/o Department of Mathematics
    National University of Singapore
    2 Science Drive 2
    Singapore 117543
    Republic of Singapore

    Statistics in Genetics

  • Date:  14-16 August 2002
  • Place:  München, Germany
  • Organizers:  Heike Bickeböller, Ludwig Fahrmeir and Claudia Klüppelberg
  • Contact<sfb386@stat.uni-muenchen.de>
  • Web-sitehttp://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/sfb386/
  • Satellite Meeting to the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians in Prague

    The Human Genome Project and advances in technology led to a huge amount of genetic data. However, there is still limited knowledge of the underlying biological mechanisms and functionalities. Modelling and analyzing such problems is extremely complex and requires advanced and novel statistical techniques. The meeting will bring together state-of-the-art researchers in the following topics: Biological Sequence Analysis, Analysis of Microarray Data, Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Diseases, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Trees.

    For further information please contact:

    Iris Burger
    SFB 386
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Ludwigstrasse 33
    D-80539 München, Germany
    tel: (+49) 892180-3418
    fax: (+49) 8921805039

    24th European Meeting of Statisticians

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  • Date:  19-23 August 2002
  • Place:  Prague, Czech Republic
  • E-mail<ems@utia.cas.cz>
  • Web-sitehttp://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems/
  • Scientific Programme Committee: J.Jurecková (Czech Republic), T.Ledwina (Poland), F.Liese (Germany), T.Mikosch (Denmark, Chair), C.Rogers (United Kingdom), I.Vajda (Czech Republic), D.von Rosen (Sweden).

    Local Organizing Committee: J.Antoch, P.Bocek, A.Fialová, D.Hlubinka, J.Ivánek, M.Janzura (Chair), A.Otáhal, Z.Prásková, H.Rezanková, J.Vejnarová, M.Zeithamlová.

    Scientific Programme

  • Forum Lecture:  Terry Speed (USA): Challenges in the analysis of gene expression data
  • Opening Lecture:  Imre Csiszár (Hungary): Information, communication and statistics
  • Closing Lecture:  Brian Ripley (UK): Spatial statistics

  • Special Invited Lectures


    Invited Sessions and Their Organizers


    Topics for Contributed Talks

    Further information
    Details about registration, instructions for sending abstracts, deadlines and other information are available on the conference homepage:
    http://siprint.utia.cas.cz/24_ems
    or on the mailing address
    Martin Janzura
    EMS 2002
    Institute of Information Theory and Automation
    Pod vodárenskou vezí 4
    182 08 Praha 8
    Czech Republic
    Tel.: +420-2-6605 2572, (+420-2-8689 0298),
    Fax: +420-2-8689 0378
    E-mail: <ems@utia.cas.cz>


    Satellite and Related Events

    Second Annual Conference on Business and Industrial Statistics

  • Date:  23-24 September 2002
  • Place:  Hotel Continental e dei Congressi, Rimini, Italy
  • Web-sitehttp://www.ibisuva.nl/ENBIS/
  • People interested in presenting a paper at the conference are kindly invited to send a title and a brief abstract (approximately 250 words) to the organising committee co-ordinator, Lesley Fairbairn, specifying the preferred format for their presentation (oral/poster); the deadline is 31st March 2002.

    Organising committee: Soren Bisgaard (Conference Program Chair), Shirley Coleman, Jeroen de Mast, Ronald Does, Oystein Evandt, Lesley Fairbairn (Conference Co-ordinator), Arnoldo Frigessi, Paolo Giudici (Local Organizing Committee Vice-Chair), Fabrizio Ruggeri (Local Organizing Committee Chair), Henry Wynn.

    The European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) was founded in 2000 as a network of people from industry and academia from all European nations interested in applying, promoting and facilitating the use of statistics in business and industry.

    The purpose of this second annual conference to be held in Rimini is to build upon the success of the first conference held in Oslo on 17-18 September 2001; it will serve as an ideal forum for users of statistics to get together, share ideas and network. Any user, from the novices to experienced and their managers, are encouraged to participate. Papers and Posters will be presented showcasing a broad spectrum of applications and generate discussion about the use of statistics in a wide range of European business and industrial areas.

    With this call for papers, we seek nominations for innovative presentations from a wide range of applications and types of business. Contributions are encouraged from business, industry, manufacturing, administration, marketing, sales, logistics and service showcasing. People from industry and business are invited to present their problems and current solutions. Applications can include, but are not limited to: design of experiments, data analysis and statistical graphics, data mining quality improvement and process control, six sigma applications, quality management, statistical modeling, survey sampling, environmental issues.

    Potential speakers with applications or results with a focus on process improvement, product improvement, measurement quality, reliability, risk management, market and customer insight are highly encouraged to submit abstracts and participate in this conference.


    The Applied Probability Trust in its 38th YearTopReports on Recent ActivitiesMeetings in 2002