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The 2003 Bernoulli Society EAPR Conference will be held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. The conference is organised by HKUST under the auspices of the EAPR Committee of the Bernoulli Society.
Keynote speakers include David Aldous, Friedrich Gotze, Zhi-ming Ma, Kei Takeuchi, Wing Hung Wong and C F Jeff Wu. Albert Lo chairs the Program Committee.
Authors are now invited to submit contributed papers through email to eapr2003@ust.hk in either LaTeX or Microsoft Word formats.
For registration and hotel information, please visit the EAPR conference website www.bm.ust.hk/~eapr2003/.
The workshop's program will start with two plenary speakers (one hour talks, including a ten minute discussion) each day, followed by invited sessions (two or three in parallel at a time) of four speakers each (30 minute talks, including a five minute discussion). Participants are encouraged to submit their contributions to Journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability where some special issues will be scheduled containing (refereed) workshop articles. Based on the demand, poster sessions will be organised.
Plenary speakers will be Paul Deheuvels (Paris VI), Luc Devroye (McGill), Marc Goovaerts (Amsterdam), Peter Hall (Australian National University), Holger Rootzen (Chalmers), Sheldon Ross (California, Berkeley), Michael Steele (Pennsylvania) and Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology).
The workshop chairs are Ricardo Baize-Yates (Chile), Joseph Glaz (Connecticut), Henryk Gzyl (Simon Bolivar), Markos V Koutras (Piraeus), Jurg Husler (Bern) and Jose Luis Palacios (Simon Bolivar). M V Koutras (mkoutras@unipi.gr) is the head of the Local Organising Committee.
The deadline for early registration is 30 November 2003. For more details see mefast.sta.unipi.gr/iwap2004/.
To give a good number (around 25) of young researchers the possibility to present their work during various poster sessions (there will be no contributed talks), we have managed to keep the costs comparatively low. Registration, accommodation (five nights) and half board in a nicely situated sea-shore hotel will cost EUR 150 (upon early registration by 31 March 2004) or EUR 200 (registering up to 31 May 2004).
Further information, including about registration, can soon be found on the website www.ucy.ac.cy/~rats/. For inquiries, please contact Theofanis Sapatinas (t.sapatinas@ucy.ac.cy).
The Organising Committee comprises Kostantinos Fokianos, Efstathios Paparoditis, Theofanis Sapatinas and Rainer von Sachs.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational science, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction. <> The invited speakers include Philip Brown (Kent), Sandrine Dudoit (Berkeley), Robert Gentleman (Harvard), Othmar Pfannes (GeneData), Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College), Terry Speed (Berkeley), Martin Vingron (Max Planck Institute) and Anja Wille (ETH Zurich).
The conference website can be found at www.stat.math.ethz.ch/talks/Ascona_04/, or, for more information, contact Christina Kunzli (kuenzli@stat.math.ethz.ch).
Speakers include O Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), S Darby (Oxford), D Firth (Oxford), P Hall (Canberra), V Isham (University College, London), P McCullagh (Chicago), N Reid (Toronto), I Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton), A Rotnitzky (Harvard), N Shephard (Oxford), N Wermuth (Mainz) and S Zeger (Johns Hopkins).
Those wishing to present papers are asked to submit an abstract in English (limited to one typed page) to the conference organisers, no later than 30 September 2003.
For further details, contact Yadolah Dodge at yadolah.dodge@unine.ch or see the website www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/Welcome.html.
This is the first European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) following the new ideas of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The renewed EMS wants to be a central international event in all areas of statistics and probability, including methodological statistics, applied and computational statistics, probability theory, stochastic processes and applied probability.
The scientific program will be interesting and broad, making the conference appealing for scientists, graduate and postgraduate students in all these areas. The scientific program will be broader than in past EMS, with more space for important applications of our disciplines. The program will also aim at cross-fertilisation between the various areas, through special invited speakers and sessions which bridge between theory and practice, inference and stochastic models. We hope to see an increase in terms of participation and contributed talks.
We encourage students and young statisticians to join the meeting in Oslo. In order to make this possible we will be offering accommodation near campus (with good standards) at a very good price, for those, students or otherwise, who do not wish to stay in a more conventional hotel. We currently estimate the on-campus accommodation to cost circa EUR 200 for the whole period. (In fact, because of local rules, the rent will be for two full weeks. We are currently working on the possibility to organise a training event during the week preceding the conference, for those who would be interested.) Of course we will offer traditional hotel accommodation, too. In summary, we aim to organise a conference for each budget.
This is the 25th EMS and we are planning to mark this round number by looking back into the history of the EMS. We wish to collect and publish historical material from the whole series of the EMS. Do you have interesting material, especially from the first 15 EMS meetings? Would you be interested in joining a small group planning this activity? Please email us at frigessi@nr.no if so.
Expected arrival of participants is Saturday, 23 July 2005. The meeting starts on Sunday, 24 July 2005, in the morning, because we want to make full use of over-the-weekend low airfares. The conference will close in the afternoon of Thursday, 28 July 2005. For us "low cost" is an important issue. The reason why the conference is in July, and not in August as is the tradition, is to use the campus facilities in full in absence of regular classes, and to profit from the long warm summer days of July. The Scandinavian summer is a unique experience!
The Scientific Program committee is chaired by Aad van der Vaart (Free University Amsterdam, and Eurandom) and the Local Organising Committee includes Arnoldo Frigessi (Norwegian Computing Centre, and Oslo), chair, and Nils L Hjort (Oslo), deputy.
For more information see the web page www.ems2005.no/, where you can also enter your name to receive the first bulletin.