The Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Singapore) is organizing a program on Algorithmic Techniques in Computational Biology. The program will take place from June 1^st to July 31^st 2006 in Singapore.

The theme of this program is algorithmic techniques in computational biology. The program will bring together researchers in algorithmic biology from a wide spectrum of application areas including, but not limited to, sequence comparison and analysis, microarray design and analysis, whole genome alignment, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, motif finding, gene network, phylogeny reconstruction, phylogenetic networks, molecular evolution, computational proteomics, and systems biology.

The program will consist of tutorials and workshops, with ample opportunities for collaborative research among local and international participants.
Activities of the program :
• Workshop 1: RECOMB Workshop on Regulatory Genomics (19-23 June 2006, tentative);
• Workshop 2: Workshop on Bioalgorithmics (17-21 July 2006);
• Tutorials: (to be advised).

The Organizing Committee of this program consists of:
• Co-chairs: Hon Wai Leong (National Univ. of Singapore), Pavel Pevzner (Univ. of California, San Diego), Franco Preparata (Brown Univ), Ken W. K. Sung (National Univ. of Singapore), Louxin Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore).
For further information and registration, please visit http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/algorithmicbiology/index.htm.

For general enquiries, please email imssec@nus.edu.sg. For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Hon-Wai Leong ( leonghw@comp.nus.edu.sg ).

XV International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics: 13-17 June 2006

The Fifteenth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics will be held in Uppsala, from Tuesday, June 13 till Saturday, June 17, 2006. The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate research, in an informal setting, and to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between matrix theory and statistics. Additional emphasis will be put on related numerical linear algebra issues and numerical solution methods, relevant to problems arising in statistics. The workshop will include both invited and contributed talks.
For more detailed info please visit the homepage: www.bt.slu.se/iwms2006/iwms06.html.

Workshop on Performance analysis of manufacturing systems: 19–20 June 2006

The workshop on “Performance analysis of manufacturing systems” will be held in June 19–20, 2006, in EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together industry and academia to discuss the performance analysis of discrete manufacturing systems, for which discrete-event simulation models and analytical queueing models provide a common tool. Theoretical developments in this area as well as applications to manufacturing will receive attention. Emphasis will be on aggregate models for manufacturing systems, as well as on incorporating manufacturing data into these models.
The flavour of the first day is application oriented; the emphasis of the second day is on theoretical developments. Speakers from industry as well as from academia will be invited.

Organizing committee:
I.J.B.F. Adan ( I.J.B.F.Adan@tue.nl ),
O.J. Boxma ( O.J.Boxma@tue.nl ),
L.F.P. Etman ( L.F.P.Etman@tue.nl ),
A.A.J. Lefeber ( A.A.J.Lefeber@tue.nl ),
J.E. Rooda ( J.E.Rooda@tue.nl ).

For further information and registration, please visit
http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2006/EPT/EPT_main.htm.

Conference on Stochastic Networks: 19-24 June 2006

The seventh international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held on June 19-24, 2006 at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This conference will continue a tradition of similar meetings held at irregular intervals over the last 20 years or so, starting with the one organized by Peter Glynn and Tom Kurtz in Madison in 1987, continuing with conferences in Minneapolis, Edinburgh, Madison, Stanford and Montreal. These meetings have brought together mathematicians and applied researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models.

Like its predecessors, the 2006 Stochastic Networks Conference (sponsored by US Army Research Office) will emphasize new model structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments in wireless networks, Internet, biology, manufacturing, and mathematical methods for stochastic network analysis. There will be roughly twenty invited talks over a six-day period (Monday through Saturday), with plenty of time in the interstices for informal discussions. In addition, there will be a poster session for contributed papers.
For preliminary information about the conference, see http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/~srikant/stochnet.htm.
Further updates will become available at the same website.

Fifth International Conference on Probability and Statistics (PROBASTAT2006):25-30 June 2006

The 5^th 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 18^th 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 19^th century, and was finished in 1955. The castle is used both for recreation and work (conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.).

The conference sessions will cover the following areas:
• Regression and Mixed Models (Chairs: Marie Hušková, Charles Univ, Prague, and Júlia Volaufová, Louisiana State Univ. Health Sciences Center, New Orleans);
• Experimental Design (Chairs: Werner Müller, Univ. of Economics and BA, Vienna, and Andrej Pázman, Comenius Univ, Bratislava);
• Time Series (Chair: Benedikt Pötscher, Univ. of Vienna);
• Statistical Learning (Chair: Ivan Mizera, Univ. 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 organizers at:
PROBASTAT 2006
Institute of Measurement Science
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9
841 04 BRATISLAVA
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
E-mail: probastat@savba.sk.

9^th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics: 25-30 June 2006

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/.

6^th International Conference on Stereology, Spatial Statistics, Stochastic Geometry: 26-29 June 2006

This conference will be held at the Charles Univ, 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/.

7^th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7): 2-7 July 2006

The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) are organising the 7^th 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 papers 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 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 ).

Conference on Markov Processes and Related Topics: 10-13 July 2006

A conference on Markov Processes and Related Topics will be held at the Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison July 10-13, 2006, to honor Tom Kurtz on his 65^th birthday for his many fundamental contributions to probability
theory.
For a list of invited speakers, go to http://www.math.utah.edu/~ethier/kurtzfest.html.
There will also be contributed talks. See the web page for information about contributing.

XXIII International Biometric Conference (IBC2006): 16-21 July 2006

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 Organising Committee, James Hanley by email at james.hanley@mcgill.ca.

31^st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications: 17-21 July 2006

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/.

26^th European Meeting of Statisticians: 24-28 July 2006

This conference will be held in Toruń, Poland. This is the first announcement.

The Chairperson of the Scientific Program Committee is Herold Dehling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Univ, Toruń) is in the chair of the Local Organising Committee.

The town of Toruń, located over the biggest river of Poland, Vistula, is famous for being the place where Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473. Toruń's main attraction is as the medieval town of Toruń, as inscribed in The World Heritage List. The old town of Toruń 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 Toruń visit www.torun.pl.

Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. is the main organising institution of the conference. It was founded in 1945, by a group of professors which left Vilnius. The Univ. 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 Univ.

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.

Program on Dynamical Chaos and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: 1 August – 30 September 2006

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Singapore) is organizing a program on Dynamical Chaos and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: From Rigorous Results to Applications in Nano-systems. The program will take place from August 1 – September 30, 2006 in Singapore. The Organizing Committee of this program consists of Co-chairs: Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology), Giulio Casati (Univ. Insubria, Italy, and National Univ. of Singapore), Lock Yue Chew (Nanyang Technological Univ), Baowen Li (National Univ. of Singapore), George Zaslavsky (New York Univ).

This two-month program will bring together leading international scientists in the field of mathematics, theoretical, computational, and experimental physics, and local experts from Departments of Physics, Mathematics, Computational Science, Material Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, DSO labs, Temasek Labs, and A*Star Institutes.

The program participants will review recent developments of dynamical chaos theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its applications to quantum systems and, in particular, to nanosystems. The participants will discuss basic scientific topics for the understanding of the fundamental laws of physics as well as applications to nano and quantum systems. The program will provide a platform for the participants, in particular the mathematicians and physicists, to dialogue and collaborate in the fast developing field of nano science and technology.

The following areas would be the core issues of the program:
• non-equilibrium statistical physics;
• directed and anomalous transport in nano-systems

The program will provide ample opportunities for collaborative research among local and international participants.

Activities of the program :
• Collaborative research: 1 Aug - 30 Sep 2006. During this period, local and overseas researchers will interact and collaborate in research on various topics of the field.
• Conference: The First International Workshop on Transmission of Information and Energy in Nonlinear and Complex Systems (TIENCS), 1 - 4 Aug 2006. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers world-wide to discuss the most recent developments in anomalous energy (heat) transport in low dimensional systems, synchronization of chaotic systems and applications to communication of information. It also serves as a forum to promote regional as well as international scientific exchange and collaboration.
• Tutorials: 7 - 11 Aug 2006. Recent developments in dynamical chaos and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

For further information and registration, lease visit http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/chaos
For general enquiries, please email imssec@nus.edu.sg.For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Baowen Li at phylibw@nus.edu.sg.

Prague Stochastics 2006: 21-25 August 2006

This conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, 21-25 August 2006. It is a joint session of the 7^th Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics and the 15^th 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 Univ. and the Department of Stochastic Information, Institute of Information and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences.
The scientific program will be aimed to cover a 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 Univ, Sokolovska 83, 186 75 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, e-mail praskova@karlin.mff.cuni.cz, or see www.utia.cas.cz/pragstoch06 for further details.

A conference in honor of Professor Ester Samuel-Cahn: 18-20 December 2006

A conference in honor of Professor Ester Samuel-Cahn, who recently retired from the Hebrew Univ, will be held near Jerusalem on December 18-20, 2006.
The general theme of the conference will be statistics and its applications. Ester's lifelong commitment and contributions to the profession and science of statistics, her endless fostering of young statisticians and her impressive record of teaching statistical theory are highly respected by her many colleagues and her countless former students. Her achievements have earned her worldwide recognition and many awards, including the Israel Prize. We all feel Ester merits honoring her with a conference.

There is still a possibility to add speakers. Those interested in contributing to the program are kindly requested to contact: Prof. Isaac Meilijson, Chair, Program Committee, at isaco@post.tau.ac.il, tel: +972-3-640-8826.

Among those who already approved their participation in the conference are: Robert J. Aumann (Hebrew U.); Lawrence D. Brown (Penn); F. Thomas Bruss (ULB); Theofilos Cacoullos (Athens U.); Yuan S. Chow (Columbia U.); Thomas Ferguson (UCLA); Larry Goldstein (USC); Alexander Gnedin (Utrecht U.); Allan Gut (Uppsala U.); Sergiu Hart (Hebrew U.); Theodore P. Hill (Georgia Tech); Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia U.); Abba M. Krieger (Penn); Tze L. Lai (Stanford); Isaac Meilijson (Tel Aviv U.); Ingram Olkin (Stanford U.); Emanuel Parzen (Texas A&M); Danny Pfeffermann (Hebrew U.); Jerome K. Percus (NYU); John Preater (Keele U.); Ernst Presman (Russian Academy of Sciences); Yosef Rinott (Hebrew U.); Uwe Saint-Mont (Fach-Hochschule Nordhausen); Stephen M. Samuels (Purdue U.); Marco Scarsini (Torino U.); Norbert Schmitz (Muenster U.); Lawrence Shepp (Rutgers); David O. Siegmund (Stanford U.); Isaac M. Sonin (UNC Charlotte); Wolfgang Stadje (Osnabrueck U.); Krzysztof Szajowski (Wroclaw Tech.); Mitsushi Tamaki (Aichi U.); Neil Turner (Keele U.); Alexander Yushkevich (UNC Charlotte); Shelemyahu Zacks (Binghamton U.) and Cunhui Zhang (Rutgers).

For further information contact: Ms. Aliza Shadmi, Conference Coordinator
shadmi-n@012.net.il, tel: +972-2-641-6394, or see: http://www.EsterConference.huji.ac.il (under construction).

Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium: 29-31 December 2006

Calcutta Statistical Association jointly with the Department of Statistics, Calcutta University is organizing the Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics during December 29-31, 2006.

This Symposium follows in the footsteps of earlier five Symposia held in 1991,1994,1997,2000 and 2003. As in the earlier Symposia, the objective is to provide a forum to the researchers, engaged in the field of Statistics and Probability to exchange ideas, facilitate discussions and share views amongst themselves.

As in the previous occasions, this time also there will be a special session on Design of Experiments and Combinatorics in the memory of the Late Professor R.C. Bose. On the occasion of the 100^th birthday of the late Professor S.N. Roy, there will be a special session on December 29, 2006.
Intending participants are requested to contact the convener of the organizing committee for further details:
Dr Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Department of Statistics, Calcutta University 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, INDIA.
e-mail: akcstat@caluniv.ac.in
asis_stat@yahoo.com
sixtricalsy@yahoo.com

For further information visit us at www.calcuttastatisticalassociation.org.

Statistics under one roof: 27-30 March 2007

This conference will be held in Bielefeld, Germany, 27-30 March 2007.
This is the first joint conference of German Statisticians organized by DAGStat-Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik/German Statistical Working Group.

The DAGStat is a collaborative project among five larger statistical societies in Germany, namely the:
* German Statistical Society (DStatG),
* German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DG),
* German Classification Society (GfKL),
* Fachgruppe Stochastik within the German Mathematical Society ,
* Association of German Urban Statisticians (VDSt).

The first joint statistical conference organized by DAGStat brings together academics and professionals from different areas of statistics, providing a platform for interdisciplinary research and exchange.
Major themes in 2007 are Statistical Methods of Bioinformatics, Survival Analysis, Time Series, Graphical Models, Analysis of Panel Data, Analysis of Space-Time Data, and much more.

Confirmed invited speakers are: Raymond J. Carroll, Lon Cardon, Ralf Korn, Helmut Lütkepohl, Johann Pfanzagl.
Email: dagstat2007@uni-bielefeld.de
Web: www.statistik2007.de
Languages: German and English.

Invitation to the Bernoulli Society satellite meeting of ISI 2007

As broadly publicised the 56^th Session of the ISI will be held in Lisbon in 2007 and satellite meetings are being organized on a few subjects.
We would like to invite people working in the field of Probability and Statistics in Science and Technology to join us at the Bernoulli Society satellite meeting of ISI 2007, to be held at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal, after the Session in Lisbon. More information will be available in the near future.

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto has good facilities and hosts a few scientific conferences and technical meetings each year ( http://www.fe.up.pt/si_uk/web_page.inicial ).

The city of Porto is very easily to reach by plane from many cities in Europe; connections from some cities are at various times throughout the day. International flights into Porto are also very convenient and arrive at the international airport. Connections to Lisbon are good and frequent by train (3 hr. trip departures approximately every hour), by plane (30 min. several flights a day) or bus. Porto is also a touristic destination together with the River Douro Valley and the old part of town is a classified UNESCO World Heritage ( http://www.portoturismo.pt/en/init/default1.asp ).

Address for inquiries:
Local Organisers: Paula Milheiro, poliv@fe.up.pt, (+351) 225081923.
Secretary: Clotilde Leite, clotilde@fe.up.pt, (+351) 225081944.
Faculdade de Engenharia, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, s/n, P-4200-465 PORTO, Portugal.
Dates: following the 2007 ISI Lisboa Session.

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