Forthcoming Conferences, Meetings and Workshops

8^th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, July 9-14, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be in Istanbul from July 9 to 14, 2012. It is jointly organized by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS. (http://www.worldcong2012.org).Scheduled every four years, this meeting is a major worldwide event for statistics and probability, covering all its branches, including theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability and stochastic processes. It features the latest scientific developments in these fields. The program will cover a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics, with in-depth sessions on applications of these disciplines to other sciences, industrial innovation and society. It will feature several special plenary lectures presented by leading specialists. In addition, there will be many invited sessions highlighting topics of current research interests, as well as a large number of contributed sessions and posters. The venue of the meeting is Grand Cevahir Hotel & Convention Center located in Istanbul which is a vibrant, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan city bridging Europe and Asia.

The main invited speakers, delivering the named, medallion and public lectures are:

Named lectures:
• Anestis Antoniadis, University Joseph Fourier (Laplace Lecture)
• Peter Green, University of Bristol (Bernoulli Lecture)
• Steffen Lauritzen, University of Oxford (Wald Lecture)
• Yves Le Jan, Université Paris-Sud (Doob Lecture)
• Pascal Massart, Université de Paris (LeCam Lecture)
• Stanislav Smirnov, Université de Genève (Kolmogorov Lecture)
• Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (Lévy Lecture)
• Bin Yu, UC Berkeley (Tukey Lecture)

Medallion lectures:
• Sourav Chatterjee, UC Berkeley
• Nicole El Karoui, Ecole Polytechnique
• Franco Flandoli, Università di Pisa
• Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI
• Van Vu, Rutgers University

Public Lecture:
• Peter Diggle, Lancaster University

Submission of abstracts is now open at: http://www.worldcong2012.org/?p=abstract

On behalf of the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee, we invite you to join us in Istanbul for this exciting scientific event. Your participation will ensure that the 2012 World Congress will be a memorable meeting.

Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Caglar, Co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee
Arnoldo Frigessi, Chair of the Program Committee

XII Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, March 26-30, 2012, Viña del Mar, Chile

The CLAPEM is the largest conference gathering Probabilists and Statisticians in the region. It is held with the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society. It takes place every two/three years and attracts researchers and students from the most important Latin American centers. It has already been organized in Venezuela, Uruguay, México, Brasil, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and Perú. The CLAPEM activities include thematic sessions, short courses, lectures held by invited researchers, sessions of oral and poster contributions and satellite meetings.

Viña del Mar, Chile, is the host city for the twelfth edition of the CLAPEM (XII CLAPEM). The city offers a wide range of options for sharing time with friends and colleagues or sightseeing with family.

Invited Speakers

• Reinaldo Arellano (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

• Marcia Branco (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil)

• Alan Gelfand (Duke University, USA)

• Madalin Guta (The University of Nottingham, UK)

• Michael Jordan (University of California - Berkeley, USA)

• Steven Lalley (University of Chicago, USA)

• Yanyuan Ma (Texas A&M University, USA)

• Fabio Martinelli (University of Roma, Italy)

• Grégory Miermont (Université Paris-Sud, France)

• Carl Mueller (University of Rochester, USA)

• Victor Pérez-Abreu (Centro de Investigaciones Matemáticas, México) 

• Marina Vannucci (Rice University, USA)

• S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan (New York University, USA)

• Frederi Viens (Purdue University, USA)

• GraceWahba (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Abstract Submission

The deadline for submission is November 15, 2011. All contributing authors will be notified by December 15, 2011, whether their abstract has been accepted and selected for oral or poster presentation. Further instructions may be found here: http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/Abstract_Submission.html

Registration

Regular registration deadline: December 31, 2011. Late Registration Deadline: March 15, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/Registration.html.

Venue

The XII CALPEM will be held March 26 - 30, 2012, at the Hotel O’Higgins, located at Plaza Vergara S/N, Viña del Mar, Chile.
Phone: +56-32-2682000,
Fax: +56-32-2883537, Email: resevas@hotelohiggins.cl

Further Information

For further information, please visit the meeting's website http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl,or contact us by email at comm-clapem@dim.uchile.cl

Aranda Ordaz Award

The prize is awarded for one thesis in Probability and one thesis in Statistics written by students from Latin America regardless of the country of the university offering the degree or by students from other nationalities who received the degree from a Latin American university. The winner are invited to present their works at the CLAPEM meeting. Instruction can be found at: http://clapem2012.mat.puc.cl/Awards.html.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Viña del Mar!

The Organizing Committee

6^th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference (GSPC), April 27-29, 2012, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

We are pleased to announce the 6^th annual Graduate Student Probability Conference (GSPC) which will be held at Georgia Institute of Technology from April 27-29, 2012.

Our two invited speakers are Jean Bertoin from the University of Zurich and Craig Tracy from the University of California-Davis. The GSPC is open to all interested graduate students and post-docs, and there will be many open slots for contributed student talks. For more information, please visit our website http://gspc.math.gatech.edu/

Registration will open in the end of November.

44^th Journées de Statistique (JdS), May 21-25 2012, Brussels, Belgium

The 44^th Journées de Statistique, since 1970 the annual meeting of the Société française de Statistique, will take place in Brussels, on the campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles, from May 21 through 25, 2012. The Journées de Statistique is the most important meeting of the French-speaking statistical community worldwide. They have been held in Marseille in 2010 and Bordeaux in 2009, but also in Canada (Ottawa 2008, Quebec 1996), Morocco (Fes 2000), Switzerland (Neuchâtel 1994, Lausanne 1987), Tunisia (Tunis 2011). Belgium has been the host in 1982, 1992 and 2002, and will pursue this decennial tradition with 2012. All statistical themes, theoretical and applied, are welcome, but special attention will be given to dependent risks and econometrics, biostatistics, high-dimensional data, etc. Contributed talks and posters are welcome both in English as in French.

For further information, on-line registration, and the submission of abstracts, visit the conference official website http://jds2012.ulb.ac.be/

Important dates on the agenda:

November 2011: call for contributed talks / January 15, 2012: early registration / February 1, 2012: last deadline for submission of contributed talks / March 10, 2012: notification of acceptance to authors / April 8, 2012: registration fees increase! / April 16, 2012: final program issued. Contact: jds2012@ulb.ac.be

7^th Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance, May 31 – June 3, 2012, Samos, Greece

The Department of Statistics & Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of University of the Aegean is pleased to host the 7^th Samos Conference. Detailed information can be found on the web-site: http://www.actuar.aegean.gr/samos2012/

This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Københavns Universitet, provides a forum for state-of-the-art results in the area of actuarial science and finance. The meeting is open to people from Universities, Insurance Companies, Banks, Consulting Firms or Regulatory Authorities, interested in actuarial – financial mathematics.

Topics:
• Modeling Rare Events, Extremes and Dependence (Chair: Qihe Tang)
• Stochastic Models in Non-Life Insurance (Chair: Esther Frostig)
• Risk and Stochastic Control (Chair: Hanspeter Schmidli)
• Life, Health and Pension Insurance (Chair: Mogens Steffensen)
• Statistical Methods in Insurance and Finance (Chair: Pedro Morettin)
• Financial Theory and Practice (Chair: Xunyu Zhou).

A short course will be given before the conference (28-30 May) under the title:
Limit Theorems and Inference for High Frequency Financial Data,
by Mark Podolskij–Heidelberg University, Germany

Invited Speakers:
• Sidney Resnick – Cornell University, USA
• Vladimir Kaishev – City University, United Kingdom
• Christian Hipp - Karlsruhe University, Germany
• Marcus Christiansen – Ulm University, Germany
• Andrew Harvey – University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Robert Elliott – University of Adelaide, Australia
• Martin Schweizer – ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Scientific Committee:

PIMS-Mprime Summer School in Probability, June 4—29, 2012, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

This is the first announcement of the 2012 PIMS-mprime Summer School in Probability which will take place on the campus of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, during June 4-29, 2012.

The school will include two main courses:
• Omer Angel: Interacting Particle Systems
• Gregory Miermont: Random Maps
as well as invited lectures and opportunities for participants to present their own research.

Preliminary information about the summer school can be found at http://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/ssprob12/

Funding for local expenses will be provided to some participants. Information about how to register and how to apply for support will be given in a second announcement in Fall 2011.

Questions can be directed to any of the local organizers:
• Omer Angel <angel@math.ubc.ca>
• Ed Perkins <perkins@math.ubc.ca>
• Gordon Slade <slade@math.ubc.ca>

24^th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics (Nordstat 2012), June 10-14, 2012, Umeå, Sweden

Nordstat is a biennial international meeting for statisticians and probabilists, organized by the Nordic and Baltic countries. The scientific programme will include several invited speakers as well as contributed talks and posters on a broad range of topics. We welcome you to submit a contributed talk or a poster presentation. Topics of contributed presentations are not restricted to the themes of the invited sessions. Abstract submission to contributed sessions will open in January 2012, and the submission deadline is March 1, 2012.
For further information, please visit www.nordstat2012.se.

We look forward to see you all in Umeå!

Tom Britton and Sara Sjöstedt de Luna

Chairs of the Programme Committee and the Organizing Committee

First Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics (ISNPS), June 15-19, 2012, Chalkidiki, Greece

The First Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics (ISNPS) will take place at Chalkidiki, Greece, between June 15-19, 2012. The conference aims to bring together researchers from around the world to discuss latest advances in different topics of current research in nonparametric statistics, including curve estimation, inference for high dimensional and functional data, Bayesian non-parametrics, non-parametric machine learning, resampling methods, and semi-parametric inference. The plenary speakers are Emmanuel Candes (Stanford and CalTech), Peter Hall (U. of Melbourne and UC Davis), and Jon Wellner (U. of Washington). Special Invited Speakers include Rudy Beran, Peter Bickel, Ray Carroll, Laszlo Gyorfi, Wolfgang Hardle and Peter Robinson. In addition, there will be about 100 invited paper and contributed paper sessions (consisting of 3 to 4 speakers each) and several poster sessions.

The venue is the G-Hotel complex: http://www.g-hotels.gr/ located 40 miles away from Salonica, Greece's second largest city. Salonica has an international airport with direct connections to most European capitals.

Important deadlines (registration, abstract submission, etc.) will be announced soon at the meeting's website http://www.isnpstat.org/ that is under construction. For more information, and for the submission of contributed talks and posters, please contact the Conference Organizers: M. Akritas, S.N. Lahiri and D.N. Politis, Ad hoc first executive committee of ISNPS, at the email address: isnps@stat.tamu.edu

Dimitris N. Politis

The ISBA 2012 World Meeting, June 25-29 2012, Kyoto, Japan

The premier conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) - will be held in Kyoto, Japan, from June 25 to June 29, 2012. The preliminary program can be found at http://www2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~isba2012/

Details about support for junior presenters will be finalized in late 2011. Please check the conference website for updates.

The Program Committee of ISBA 2012 invites submissions of proposals for special topic sessions. Each session consists of 4 talks of 25 min with a common theme. The proposal should include the title of the session, a brief description (session abstract), and the list of 4 speakers and should be sent to isba2012@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp by September 18, 2011

Second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, July 1-4 2012, Tsukuba, Japan