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in Honour of Professor Kai-Tai Fang's 65th Birthday: 20-24 June 2005
This meeting will be held in Hong Kong, China, 20-24 June 2005.
Professor Kai-Tai Fang, Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, is the co-inventor of
the uniform experimental design, which is used by engineers to expedite product
development. He has discovered new methods for inference in multivariate data.
In recent years he has collaborated with biologists and chemists to enhance our
understanding of Chinese medicine. He is the author or co-author of six research
monographs, twelve textbooks and over 250 articles that cover computational
statistics, distribution theory, experimental design, growth curve models, Monte
Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, multivariate analysis, optimization,
popularity, statistical graphs, statistical inference and others. As Professor
Fang celebrates his 65th
birthday, we are organising a conference to recognise his achievements. The
conference will cover all main areas in statistics.
Contact fang65@math.hkbu.edu.hk or
visit www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/Fang65/
for more information.
SPA'05 will be a major international meeting, covering the
most exciting recent developments in probability. It will be held on the sunny
seaside campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Opening with a
reception on Sunday, 26 June, the program will include three Special Invited
Lectures given by leading researchers, 13 invited talks, and numerous
contributed talks. A mid-conference tour and conference dinner will encourage
informal interactions between participants. Some evenings are left free for the
participants to explore the beautiful town of Santa Barbara or swim in the
Pacific Ocean at nearby Goleta beach.
The meeting is held under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical
Statistics and Probability and co-sponsored by the IMS. The program will feature
a Lévy Lecture delivered by Jean Bertoin (Paris VI), two IMS Medallion Lectures
presented by Jean-François Le Gall (Paris VI) and Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH
Zurich), and invited and contributed talks.
Invited speakers are Percy Deift (Courant), Darrell Duffie (Stanford), Janos
Englander (UC Santa Barbara), Nina Gantert (Karlsruhe), Peter Glynn (Stanford),
Claudio Landim (IMPA), Vlada Limic (Vancouver), Leonid Mytnik (Technion), Walter
Schachermayer (Vienna), Jonathan Taylor (Stanford), Bálint Tóth (Budapest),
Tandy Warnow (UT Austin), and Nobuo Yoshida (Kyoto).
Contributed paper submissions from new researchers and graduate students are
especially encouraged. Although California, and Santa Barbara in particular, are
well-known for high hotel prices, we will be able to host participants on campus
for an estimated cost of about USD420 (single) and USD340 (double), including
three all-you-can-eat buffet style meals (actual costs will be available in
December). Several scholarships are available for US-based (but not necessarily
US citizens) students and for new researchers. Please check details on the
website above.
The Scientific Program Committee is: Raya Feldman (Chair, UC Santa Barbara),
Robert Adler (Technion), David Aldous (UC Berkeley), Guillaume Bonnet (UC Santa
Barbara), Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft and U of Washington), Don Dawson (Carleton
U), Rick Durrett (Cornell U), Klaus Fleischmann (WIAS), Tadahisa Funaki (U of
Tokyo), Paul Glasserman (Columbia U), Olle Häggström (Chalmers U of Technology),
Thomas Mikosch (U of Copenhagen), Philip Pollett (U of Queensland), Wendelin
Werner (U Paris-Sud), and Ruth Williams (UC San Diego).
This meeting will be held at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, California, USA, on 26 June 2005. It is a satellite meeting of
the 30th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Application (see above).
Phenomenon such as molecular transport, gene regulation and cellular behavior
require very sophisticated models to understand their functions, and the role of
mathematicians in this domain is crucial to the analysis of these models. The
goal of the workshop is to bring together probabilists interested in biological
applications and experts in interdisciplinary research in stochastic modeling
for molecular biology problems.
See
www.pstat.ucsb.edu/projects/smmsb/ for details, or email the organiser
Guillaume Bonnet at bonnet@pstat.ucsb.edu.
The 13th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference will take
place 6-8 July in the capital city of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. Please bookmark
the conference website: appliedprob.society.informs.org/ottawaconf.html and
visit it for updates on the program and on events occurring in and around
Ottawa. On the site you are also able to submit your abstract, book your room at
the Westin and register for the conference.
We are very pleased to announce that we have three excellent plenary speakers
for the meeting: David Aldous (Berkeley), Onno Boxma (Eindhoven) and Darrell
Duffie (Stanford).
We have an exciting program of social events planned, including a boat cruise on
the Ottawa River, and conference reception on the opening night, and a Museum
Evening featuring a choice between the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum
of Civilisation. The conference hotel is in an excellent location allowing
attendees and their guests to experience Parliament Hill with its daily Changing
of the Guard ceremony, to
explore the Rideau Canal, and to savour the Byward Market.
Please keep in touch with the conference website for all developments. Specific
enquiries regarding Program should be directed to Paul Glasserman (Columbia) or
Peter Glynn (Stanford). For Local Arrangements and Events, please contact Doug
Down (McMaster) ( downd@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca )
or David Stanford (U. Western Ontario).
This meeting will be held in Salvador, Brazil, 2-7 July 2005. For further information, please see the website www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~scott/symposium or contact biomcmc@maths.unsw.edu.au.
This meeting will be held in Sydney, Australia, 7-8 July
2005. It will be organised by the IASE and the Brazilian Statistical Association
(ABE), with support of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
(IBGE).
Statistics educators, statisticians, teachers and educators at large are invited
to contribute to the scientific program. Types of contribution include invited
papers, contributed papers and posters. No person may author more than one
invited paper at the conference, although the same person can be co-author of
more than one paper, provided each paper is presented by a different person.
Voluntary refereeing procedures will be implemented for ICOTS7. Details of how
to prepare manuscripts, the refereeing process and final submission arrangements
will be announced later.
Invited Paper Sessions are organised within nine different conference topics.
The list of topic and sessions themes, with email contacts for session
organizers, is available at
www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7 , the ICOTS-7 web site, under “Scientific
Program”. Those interested in submitting an invited paper should contact the
appropriate session organiser before 1 December 2004.
Contributed paper sessions will be arranged in a variety of areas. Those
interested in submitting one should contact Joachim Engel ( engel_joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de )
or Allan MacLean ( alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au )
before September 1, 2005.
Those interested in submitting a poster should contact Celi Lopes ( celilopes@uol.com.br )
before 1 February 2006.
Details about the registration procedure will be given later.
If requested, the IASE is normally happy to give permission for authors to
submit their papers (or a more comprehensive version) to other journals, such as
Statistics Education Research Journal, Journal of Statistics Education,
International Statistical Review or Teaching Statistics. If this occurs the
author must seek approval of the editors of the ICOTS7 Proceedings and the IASE
President. The paper must have an acknowledgement saying "This article was
written for, and published in, the ICOTS7 Proceedings and is reprinted (in
revised form, if relevant) here with the permission of the IASE".
More information is available from the ICOTS-7 web site or from the ICOTS IPC
Chair Carmen Batanero ( batanero@ugr.es ),
the Program Chair Susan Starkings ( starkisa@lsbu.ac.uk )
and the Scientific Secretary John Harraway ( jharraway@maths.otago.ac.nz).
This meeting will be held in Beijing, China, 9-11 July 2005. For further information, see math.bnu.edu.cn/statprob/CSPS-IMS2005/.
The joint meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability
and Statistics (CSPS) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) will
take place in Beijing on 9-11 July 2005.
The venue of the meeting is Peking University with accommodation in the nearby
Friendship Hotel (shuttles will be provided between the university and the
hotel). As a city, Beijing offers many cultural attractions. The Program and
Local Organising Committees will be delighted to invite you to come to Beijing.
Your participation will ensure that the 2005 CSPS/IMS joint meeting becomes an
unforgettable scientific event.
The invited program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability,
presenting recent and state-of-the-art developments in modern methodology
research and applications such as non-parametric statistics, machine learning,
finance, bioinformatics, environmental statistics, and information technology.
Submissions of contributed papers are invited via the conference website with a
deadline of 20 January 2005.
Moreover, a half day sightseeing to the Great Wall during the meeting is planned
and an after-meeting program and an accompanying persons program during the
meeting are also being planned. Please visit the conference website for updates.
We look forward to meeting you in Beijing!
The conference (SMOCS-05) will be held 10-16 July 2005 at
the Daydream Island resort (Whitsundays, near Proserpine, Queensland,
Australia).
The conference is organised and partly sponsored by the Australian Research
Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems
( www.complex.org.au ) and the
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute ( www.amsi.org.au ).
The Australian Fourth National Symposium on Financial Mathematics will be an
organic part of the Conference.
One of the conference sessions will be dedicated to the 80th
birthday of Professor Joe Gani.
The program will consists of fifty-minute invited and twenty-five-minute
contributed talks. Confirmed invited speakers include: N El Karoui, R Elliot, C
R Hwang, P Imkeller, S Ogawa, L Rueschendorf, A N Shiryaev, F Spieksma, S Tavare
and V Vatutin.
The SMOCS-05 Web page is located at
www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/smocs05/.
The conference will be held 18-22 July 2005 in Mikulov,
Czech Republic.
Jana Jureckova is chair of the Program Committee, and Ivana Horova is the chair
of the Local Organising Committee.
The conference web page is located at
www.math.muni.cz/workshop_2005/.
The conference will be held 20-23 July 2005 at Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The ISIPTA meetings are one of the primary international forums to present and
discuss new results on the theory and applications of imprecise probabilities.
Imprecise probability has a wide scope, being a generic term for the many
mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without
sharp numerical probabilities. These models include belief functions, Choquet
capacities, comparative probability orderings, convex sets of probability
measures, fuzzy measures, interval-valued probabilities, possibility measures,
plausibility measures, and upper and lower expectations or previsions. Imprecise
probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant
information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where
preferences may also be incomplete.
Although the symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise
probability, three main themes will be emphasised: decision-making, algorithms,
and real applications.
There will be a workshop addendum to the conference, to be held on 24 July 2004,
with invited speakers on the topic of financial risk assessment, to which all of
the ISIPTA'05 participants are welcome, at no additional registration cost.
Details will be announced later.
The Program Board comprises
If you have any questions about the symposium, please
contact the Organising Committee at
teddy@stat.cmu.edu or fgcozman@usp.br
or at the following address.
Teddy Seidenfeld
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Telephone +1 412 268 2209
Facsimile +1 412 268 1440
The 25th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Oslo, the capital of Norway, 24-28 July 2005, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. See www.ems2005.no for final details.
This meeting will be held in Săo Paulo, Brasil. See www.ime.usp.br/~ubatuba/2nd/.
This conference will be held in Săo Paulo, Brasil. The
conference website can be found at
www.ime.usp.br/ebp/ebp9/ .
Courses and talks will be given by Imre Csiszar, Giovanni Jona-Lasinio Miguel
Abadi, Pierre Collet, Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos, Thierry De La Rue, Roberto
Fernández, Nancy Garcia, Charles M Newman, Sandro Vaienti and Victor Yohai.
This conference will be held at the University of
Minnesota, 2-6 August 2005. These conferences were/are organised by the IMS to
promote interaction among new researchers primarily by introducing them to each
other's research in an informal setting. As part of the conference, participants
will present talks and posters on their research and discuss interests and
professional experiences over meals and social activities organised through the
meeting as well as by the participants themselves. The relationships established
in this informal collegiate setting among junior researchers are ones that may
last a career, or even lifetime!
The New Researchers Conference is a meeting of recent PhD recipients in
Statistics and Probability. A new researcher is defined as anyone who has
received a PhD since 2000. (Applications have now closed.)
For further details, please see the website
pages.pomona.edu/~jsh04747/NRC/NRC.htm or email Galin Jones:
galin@stat.umn.edu.
This conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 15-19
August 2005.
The Scientific Organising Committee consists of Stuart Coles, Richard A Davis,
Claudia Kluppelberg, Thomas Mikosch, Holger Rootzen and Johan Segers. The Local
Organising Committee consists of Henrik Hult, Filip Lindskog, Thomas Mikosch,
Holger Rootzen and Catalin Starica.
See
www.math.ku.dk/~mikosch/maphysto _extremes_2005/extremes.html for more
information.
The conference will be held in Bern, Switzerland, 3-7
October 2005.
The conference topics concern various aspects of stochastic geometry and its
applications, in particular, in material science and telecommunications. One day
of the conference will be devoted to Professor Dietrich Stoyan.
For more information contact Ilya Molchanov ( ilya@stat.unibe.ch )
or visit the website
www.cx.unibe.ch/~ilya/wbec/.
The conference will be held in Solís, Uruguay, 1-9
December 2005.
ELAM is one of the main events on Mathematics in Latin America, and this edition
is devoted to Probability and Dynamical Systems. This event will be also part of
the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the foundation of UMALCA (Unión
Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe), Mathematical Society for
mathematicians from Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The organising commitee is Pablo Ferrari (USP-Brasil), Roberto Markarian
(IMERL-Uruguay), Ernesto Mordeki (CMAT-Uruguay), Gonzalo Perera (IMERL-Uruguay),
Martin Sambarino (CMAT-Uruguay), Marcelo Viana
(IMPA-Brasil), Mario Wschebor (CMAT-Uruguay) and Marcelo Cerminara (Secretary)
(IMERL-Uruguay). There will be six courses and eight invited lectures, as well
as four sessions devoted to short communications.
Invited courses will be given by
• Pierre Collet, Ecolé Polytechnique, France: "Probability and dynamical
systems"
• Konstantin Khanin: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: "Ergodic theory,
continued fractions and renormalisations"
• Alain Chenciner: IMCCE and Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France:
"Calculus of variations in the convex case: an introduction to Fathi's weak KAM
theory and Mather's theory of minimal invariant measures"
• Michael Shub y Charle Pugh, University of Toronto, Canada: "Introduction to
hyperbolic and partially hyperbolic dynamical systems"
• Ravi R Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada: "Applications of probability
to traffic modeling"
• David Nualart, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain: "Fractional Brownian Motion:
stochastic calculus and applications".
The organising committee will probably be able to provide some financial support
to postgraduate students and mathematicians from Latin America. No registration
fees will be charged to participants for the event.
For more information, please contact
elam@fing.edu.uy , and see the website
http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/elam/ .
This conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 14-17
March 2006.
This conference is held every two years by the Fachgruppe Stochastik of the
German Mathematical Society. It provides a forum for participants from
universities, business, and industry to discuss new results in the area of
probability and statistics.
The “Stochastik-Tage" have become the major event probability and statistics in
Germany, and belong to the most important probability and statistics conferences
in Europe. There will be 14 sections covering major parts of the field, and a
few hundred participants are expected.
A first announcement of the conference, including the list of sections, their
organisers and the plenary speakers, is at
http://stoch2006.math.uni-frankfurt.de .
Conference on Stochastics in Science,
in Honour of Ole Barndorff-Nielsen’s 71st
Birthday: 20-24 March 2006
This conference will be held in Guanajuato, Mexico, 20-24 March 2006. Contact
pabreu@cimat.mx or visit the website
www.cimat.mx/Eventos/oebn-conference.
The 5th
International Conference on Probability and Statistics,
PROBASTAT 2006, will be held at Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, 5-9 June 2006.
Smolenice is a village in the west part of Slovakia, located about 60 km
north-east of the capital city Bratislava. The Smolenice Castle, surrounded by a
beautiful park, towers above the village of Smolenice in the eastern foothills
of Male Karpaty (Small Carpatians). The castle used to be a stronghold watching
the Czech Road, and it was destroyed and abandoned in late 18th
century. From this medieval stronghold only a
part of the outside rampart with a cannon bastion is preserved. Renovation of
the castle in Romantic style, started in the late 19th
century, and was finished in 1955. The castle is
used to shelter both recreation and work (conferences, workshops, seminars, and
so on).
The conference sessions will cover the following areas:
• Regression and Mixed Models (Chairs: Marie Hušková, Charles University,
Prague, and Júlia Volaufová, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center,
New Orleans)
• Experimental Design (Chairs: Werner Müller, University of Economics and BA,
Vienna, and Andrej Pázman, Comenius University, Bratislava)
• Time Series (Chair: Benedikt Pötscher, University of Vienna)
• Statistical Learning (Chair: Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta, Edmonton)
There will be invited talks on these areas. Contributed papers or posters on
these areas or others are welcome. A proceedings volume is intended to be
published after the conference.
For more details visit the web site at
http://aiolos.um.savba.sk/~viktor/probastat.html where the information is
regularly updated, or contact the organisers at
PROBASTAT 2006
Institute of Measurement Science
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9
841 04 BRATISLAVA
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
E-mail: probastat@savba.sk.
This conference will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 25-30 June 2006, under the auspices of the International Statistical Institute. For more information, contact Aleksandras Plikusas ( conf@ktl.mii.lt ) at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos str. 4, 08663, Vilnius, Lithuania, or visit www.science.mii.lt/vilconf9/.
6th
International Conference on Stereology, Spatial Statistics,
Stochastic Geometry: 26-29 June 2006
This conference will be held held at the Charles University, Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics, in Prague, Czech Republic, 26-29 June 2006. The meeting
is devoted to theory and applications.
For more information, contact Viktor Benes ( benesv@karlin.mff.cuni.cz )
or Radka Juzkova ( radka.juzkova@svses.cz ).
The website for the meeting is at
www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/s4g/.
The International Association for Statistical Education
(IASE) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) are organising the 7th
International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7) which will be hosted
by the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE) in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, 2-7
July 2006.
Most of the 54 Invited Paper Sessions (arranged into nine different topics) are
complete. In addition, four Special Interest Group Meetings (three of them in
both Portuguese and Spanish) have been arranged for those interested in
discussing a particular theme.
Contributed papers and posters dealing with any aspect of statistics education
are welcome.
Contributed paper will be arranged in a variety of sessions, taking into account
the proposals received. An optional refereeing process will be arranged for
those wishing their papers to be refereed.
Those interested in submitting a contributed paper should contact, before 1
September 2005, either
• Joachim Engel
( engel_joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de )
• Alan McLean
( alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au )
Those interested in submitting a poster should contact Celi Lopes ( celilopes@uol.com.br )
before 1 February 2006.
Detailed guidelines for authors, deadlines and other information are available
at www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7/
.
More information can be obtained from Carmen Batanero ( batanero@ugr.es).
The International Biometric Conference, sponsored by the
International Biometric Society, is held every two years and brings together
statisticians and bioscientists interested in the development and application of
statistical and mathematical methods for the biological sciences. The conference
was held in Berkeley, California, in 2000; in Freiburg, Germany ( www.ibc2002.uni-freiburg.de )
in 2002, and in Cairns, Australia ( www.ozaccom.com.au/cairns2004/ )
in 2004.
The 2006 meeting will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16-21 July 2006.
Please see www.ibc2006.org for information, or contact the chair of the Local
Organisating Committee, James Hanley by email at
james.hanley@mcgill.ca.
This conference will be held in Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006. This annual event will be organised under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Detailed information will be posted at www.proba.jussieu.fr/pageperso/spa06/.
This conference will be held in Torun, Poland. This is the
first announcement.
The chairperson of the Scientific Program Committee is Herold Dehling
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum). Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University,
Torun) is in the chair of the Local Organising Committee.
The town of Torun, located over the biggest river of Poland, Vistula, is famous
for being the place where Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473. Torun's main
attraction is as the medieval town of Torun, as inscribed in The World Heritage
List. The old town of Torun is an example of a small historic trading city that
preserves to a remarkable extent its original street pattern and outstanding
early buildings, and which provides an exceptionally complete picture of the
medieval way of life. For more information on Torun visit
www.torun.pl .
Nicolaus Copernicus University is the main organising institution of the
conference. It was founded in 1945, by a group of professors which left Vilnius.
The university serves to more than forty thousand students and its campus offers
perfect conditions for the conference. Visit
www.uni.torun.pl/en to learn more on
the University.
The news related to the conference will be published on the conference web page
www.ems2006.umk.pl . The contact e-mail
is ems2006@umk.pl .
This conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic,
21-25 August 2006. It is a joint session of the 7th Prague Symposium on
Asymptotic Statistics and the 15th
Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Function and
Random Processes, organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for
Mathematical Statistics and Probability.
The meeting will be organised by the Department of Probability and Mathematical
Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the
Department of Stochastic Information, Institute of Information and Automation,
Czech Academy of Sciences.
The scientific program will be aimed to cover wide range of stochastics with
special emphasis on the topics of this lively field which have been pursued in
Prague.
Contact Zuzana Praskova, Department of Statistics, Charles University,
Sokolovska 83, 186 75 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, e-mail
praskova@karlin.mff.cuni.cz ,
or see www.utia.cas.cz/pragstoch06
for further details.