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2010 Meetings Around the World
January
January 4-8, 2010
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: N. BalaKrishnan (Chair), CANADA; Hira Koul, USA; Soumendra Nath Lahiri,USA;
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
January 4-8, 2010
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
For information about this international conference on Statistics, Probability, and Related Areas, please contact: S. Rao Jammalamadaka (Organizing Committee Chair) rao@pstat.ucsb.edu
International Conference on Statistics and Information Analytics (ICSIA – 2010 )
January 11-13, 2010
Loyola College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
The main objective of this conference is to bring together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Statistics and Information Analytics.
Stochastic
Processes in Communication Sciences
January 11 - July 2, 2010
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
This programme aims at the exposition of the latest developments in mathematical sciences lying on the boundary between the disciplines of stochastics and communications.
New
Topics at the Interface Between Probability and Communications
January 11-15, 2010
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
This is the inaugural workshop of the programme on Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences. It brings together several leading experts studying problems in the modern communication sciences using stochastic techniques. The interplay between these fields has been enormously fruitful over the last couple of decades, with stochastic techniques making an impact on the development of communication systems and problems in communications leading to new developments in the theory of stochastic processes. The aim of the workshop is to survey these developments and to map out possible pathways for the synergistic evolution of these fields in the future.
January 12-15, 2010
Santiago, Chile
The X Chilean Biometric Conference, the IV Chilean Dental-Statistical Meeting, the II Chilean Bayesian Workshop and the I Chilean Medical-Statistical Meeting will be held on these dates. The scientific program considers plenary, discussion, and poster sessions. Participants are invited to present their work. The scientific committee will assign every submission to the category of Oral Presentation or Poster. An edited volume based on peer-review abstract will be available for the participants in a CD.
University of Florida Twelfth Annual Winter Workshop: Categorical Data Analysis
January 15-16, 2010
Gainesville, Florida
The workshop will focus on recent developments in methodology for categorical data analysis, such as analyzing high-dimensional data, Bayesian inference, dealing with clustering and missing data, and applications to rapidly-developing disciplines such as statistical genetics. A major purpose of the workshop is to discuss many recent significant developments and to identify important problems and new research directions.
9th Winter school on Mathematical Finance
January 18-20, 2010
CongresHotel De Werelt, Lunteren
The program will consist of two Mini Courses, three Special Invited Lectures, and four Short Lectures.
February
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference 2010
February 4-5, 2010
Brussels, Belgium
The focus will be on the interplay between finance and insurance but also other topics in actuarial and financial mathematics are welcome.
February 8-11, 2010
Beer Sheva, Israel
The SMRLO'10 will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of Stochastic Models and Methods in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management and their applications. The idea of symposium is to assemble researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions, industries, businesses and government, working in these fields. Theoretical issues and applied case-studied, presented on the symposium, will range from academic considerations to operational applications.
XVII
International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences
February 16-19, 2010
San Jose, Costa Rica
The XVIIth International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences (XVII SIMMAC) is the most important event in applied mathematics in Central America. It is organized by the School of Mathematics and the Center for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA) of the University of Costa Rica every two years.
Education and Outreach Program: Two-Day Undergraduate Workshop
February 26-27, 2010
SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC
SAMSI annually conducts a national Education and Outreach Program for undergraduate and graduate students interested in statistics and applied mathematics and their application in the disciplinary sciences.
March
9th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics in Leipzig
March 2-5, 2010
Leipzig, Germany
In the tradition of the previous conferences, it provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. Participants from universities, business, administration and industry are welcome.
Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2010
March 11-13, 2010
University of Central Florida
Apart from informal presentations by conference participants, there will be plenary talks by five invited speakers. In addition, a short informal afternoon session will be held honoring the late Kai Lai Chung's mathematical career.
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
March 17-20, 2010
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
The conference consists of plenary-speaker
sessions, invited-speaker sessions, and poster sessions. Plenary
speakers include Professors Donald Berry, Lawrence Brown, Persi Diaconis,
Stephen Fienberg, and Alan Gelfand.
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dipak K. Dey
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
March 21-24, 2010
Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA, USA
IMS Program Chairs: Marie Davidian and Hao Helen Zhang
(IMS
Sponsored Meeting)
March 22-26, 2010
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
Stochastic networks is a multifaceted area of research dealing with the stability, control, performance, approximation and design of stochastic models of networks. It gives rise to challenging and subtle mathematical problems, whose solution often requires a combination of ideas and techniques from several branches of mathematics, including probability theory, stochastic processes, analysis, optimization, combinatorics and graph theory. Research in this area is strongly motivated by applications in diverse areas, ranging from the traditional areas of telecommunications and manufacturing to service operations, biological and social networks and revenue management. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in this area to survey recent developments and identify future research directions.
DAGStat
2010 "Statistics under one umbrella"
March 23-26, 2010
Dortmund, Germany
The 'Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik' (DAGStat) is a network of scientific and professional organisations that develop and promote statistical theory and methodology. The second joint conference includes the 56th Biometrisches Kolloquium and the Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft. The theme is 'Statistics under one umbrella', encouraging a fruitful scientific communication between statisticians working in different fields.
Conference
on Resampling methods and High Dimensional Data
March 25-26, 2010
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
This conference aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of resampling methods and high dimensional data. Inference in high dimensional setting presents unique challenges. The conference will provide a unique platform for taking stock of recent developments in each area and for exploring the limits of resampling methods in high dimensional setting. Keynote speakers are Professors Peter Bickel, Jianqing Fan, Peter Hall and Bin Yu.For more information visit the website or contact snlahiri@stat.tamu.edu
April
Spatial
Network Models for Wireless Communications
April 6-9,2010
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
The aim of this trans-disciplinary workshop will be to bring together specialists in the fields of spatial stochastics, of wireless networking and information theory, and will focus on the interplay between these disciplines.
International Workshop on Multivariate Risks and Copulas
April 14-17, 2010
Biskra, Algeria
The workshop will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of risks, copulas and related topics. The main goal of this scientific event is to gather researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions, industries and Government, working in these fields.
May
AISTATS2010 (Artificial Intelligence and Statistics)
May 13-15, 2010
Chia Laguna Resort, Sardinia
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Michael Titterington
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Statistical Learning
May 19-22, 2010
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
The conference objective is to bring together researchers in Nonparametrics and Statistical Learning from academia, industry, and government in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere focused on the development of both statistical theory and methods. The major goal of the conference is to focus on principles and methods that apply to both disciplines.
38th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
May 23-26, 2010
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
This conference will bring together academic, governmental and industrial researchers as well as users of statistics and probability and will feature workshops, invited and contributed sessions in all areas of statistics and probability.
Conference on Application of Satistics and Probability to Africa Development (ASPAD)
May 26–28, 2010
Dakar, Senegal
This meeting is to be the major event in Probability and Statistics held every two years in Africa, under the aegis of the newly Statistical Pan African Society (SPAS) to be launched alongside the meeting.
Model Uncertainty
May 30 – June 1, 2010
University of Warwick, UK
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dario Spano
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
June
Statistical Science - Making a Difference
June 3-4, 2010
University of Wisconsin, Madison
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Doksum, Johnson, Wahba
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
6th Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance on Samos
June 3-6, 2010
Samos, Greece
This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Křbenhavns Universitet, provides a forum for state-of-the-art results and the latest advances 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.
19th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS 2010)
June 5-8, 2010
Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai, China
The aim of the workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between statistics and matrix theory. Email: IWMS2010@shfc.edu.cn
A
Satellite Meeting for young researchers
June 7-11, 2010
e-Science Centre, Edinburgh
From Markov Processes to Brownian Motion and Beyond — An International Conference In Memory of Kai Lai Chung
June 13-16, 2010
Peking University, China
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Louis Chen, Zhen-Qing Chen, Jim Dai, Zhi-Ming Ma and Ruth Williams.
(IMS
Co-sponsored Meeting)
23rd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics (NORDSTAT 2010)
June 14-17, 2010
Voss, Norway
45th
Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society
June 16-18, 2010
Padua, Italy
The Italian Statistical Society (SIS) promotes every two years an international scientific meeting. The 2010 meeting will take place in Padua, Italy, next June. The Conference will include plenary, specialized, contributed and poster sessions. These can be on any area of interest relevant to theoretical and applied statistics.
June 20–23, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Program Chairs: Carolyn Rutter (WNAR) and Brenda Kurland (IMS)
(IMS
Sponsored Meeting)
Simulation
of Stochastic Networks and Statistics of Networks
June 21-25, 2010
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
2010
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer School in
Probability
June 21 - July 10, 2010
University of Washington and Microsoft Research
The school will be devoted to training of doctoral students in the area of probability. We invite participation of graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, and also regular faculty.
ICORS 2010, the International Conference on Robust Statistics
June 28 - July 2, 2010
Prague, Czech Republic
The conference aims to be a forum for the developments, applications and purpose of robust statistical methods, and their interactions to other fields of statistics, and to science in general. It is an opportunity to meet, exchange knowledge, and build scientific contacts for all people interested in the subject.
June 29 - July 1, 2010
Palmerston North, New Zealand
The international conference is devoted to all aspects of distribution theory and their applications, including discrete distributions, univariate and multivariate continuous distributions, copulas, extreme values, skewed distributions, conditionally specified distributions and life distributions in reliability engineering and survival analysis
July
Water
2010: Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Resources in an Uncertain
Environment
July 5-7 2010
Quebec City, Canada
One of the objectives of ICWRER conferences is to bring together physical, biological, chemical, statistical and technical expertise in order to better understand natural systems related to water resources from all around the world. As for the case of the ISSH series, the topics of ICWRER conferences are versatile encompassing GIS and remote sensing, stochastic hydrology, sustainable water management, surface water and groundwater interaction, ecosystem modelling, scaling problems in hydrology and water resources, environmental management, risk analysis and management or climate change.
5th
International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP 2010)
July 5-8, 2010
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain
The aim of this workshop is to bring together and foster collaboration among scientists engaged in applied probability. A wide range of active research fields will be cover featuring seven invited plenary lectures, presented by leading specialists, a large variety of invited sessions, contributed talks, and a special poster session.
ISBIS-2010, International Symposium for Business & Industrial Statistics
July 5–9, 2010
Grand Hotel Bernardin, St. Bernardin Adriatic Resort & Convention Center, Portoroz (Portorose), Slovenia
Key themes: industrial applications of Statistical Image Analysis; Future Directions for handling large & complex data sets; Financial Services; Health Services; quality & produtivity improvement and decision-making in business & industry.
ISBIS-2010, the biennial international symposium sponsored by the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), will be held at a delightful resort on the Adriatic coast, the Grand Hotel Bernardin, Adriatic Resort & Convention Center, Portoroz, in Slovenia, during 6–9 July 2010.
The scientific program will focus on important statistical issues relating to productivity improvement and decision-making at all levels of business and industry, including financial services and health services.
There will be particular emphasis on industrial applications of Statistical Image Analysis, with an opening plenary address and tutorial introduction to the subject by Professor Jean Serra, co-founder of Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology in the 1960s; and on future directions for statistical computing for large and complex data sets, concluding with a plenary address by one of the leading figures in the area, Dr Lee Edlefsen of REvolution Computing. Another interesting feature will be an ASMBI Discussion Paper by Ming Li, Steve Holland, and Bill Meeker, on automatic crack detection in image sequence data.
The symposium will be preceded, on 5 July 2010, by a half-day Developmental workshop for young statisticians led by the Executive Director of the American Statistical Association, Dr Ron Wasserstein, and the current President of the ASA, Dr Sastry Pantula.
ISBIS-2010 will provide a varied and stimulating scientific program of invited and contributed papers, and excellent opportunities for formal and informal exchanges. Authors will have the opportunity to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Society's journal, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. And there will be an enjoyable social program.
Useful web pages:
· Registration http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/reg.php and http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/reg_2.php
· Call for Papers http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/tracks.php
· Abstract Submission Form http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/submission_form.php
· To submit an Expression of Interest: http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/prereg_form.php
· Accommodation:
http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/accommodation.php for accommodation at the Grandhotel Bernardin
http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/otheraccommodation.php for accommodation other hotels in St. Bernardin Resort
For further information, please visit www.action-m.com/isbis2010 or send email to Milena Zeithamlova at milena@action-m.com.
For information about registration, please visit http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/reg.php and http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010/reg_2.php
On-line registration is available now.
ICOTS 8 - Data and Context in Statistics Education: Towards an Evidence-Based Society
July 11-16, 2010
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Data is preferable to anecdote or intuition as a basis for robust decision making in many professions and sections of society. More and more we want to see “the evidence”. The root purpose of statistics is to extract insight and meaning about real contexts using data. Successful learning processes must be researched and we must consider how data and context motivate our students and guide our education practices.
July 12-23, 2010
SAMSI - Research Triangle Park, NC
The aims of the program and workshop are (i) to identify the critical new developments of inference methods for PK and PD data; (ii) to determine open challenges; and (iii) to establish inference for PK and PD as an important motivating application area of non-parametric Bayes.
6th Cornell Probability Summer School
July 18-31, 2009
Ithaca, NY, USA
(IMS
co-sponsored Meeting)
Education and Outreach Program: Industrial Math/Stat Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students
July 19-27, 2010
SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC
SAMSI annually conducts a national Education and Outreach Program for undergraduate and graduate students interested in statistics and applied mathematics and their application in the disciplinary sciences.
July 20-23, 2010
Leicester, UK
This conference is held every two years and is concerned with all aspects of spatial accuracy in natural resources and environmental sciences.
6th International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications
July 26-30, 2010
Technical University at Dresden, Germany
The focus is on recent developments in the theory of Lévy and jump processes and their applications. There will be invited talks and poster sessions.
LinStat 2010 - International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference
July 27 - July 31, 2010
Tomar, Portugal
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications. The conference will mainly focus on a number of topics: estimation, prediction and testing in linear models, robustness of relevant statistical methods, estimation of variance components appearing in linear models, generalizations to nonlinear models, design and analysis of experiments, including optimality and comparison of linear experiments.
From
Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes
Conference
July 28-30, 2010
Seattle, Washington
The session topics will include: High dimensional probability and empirical processes; Nonparametric and semiparametric models; Shape-restricted inference; Statistical learning theory; Statistics in complex learning designs; Survival analysis. The meeting will honor Jon Wellner's 65th birthday.
August
Joint
Statistical Meetings
August 1–5, 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(IMS
Sponsored Meeting)
The
7th Conference on Multivariate Distributions with Applications
August 8-13, 2010
Maresias, Brazil
The meeting aims at providing a forum for the presentation of state-of-the art research in the development, implementation of multivariate distributions and their real-world applications, as well as promoting discussion and interchange between junior and senior scientists. The joint meeting is open to both academic and non-academic communities and is specifically designed to contribute to fostering the cooperation between practitioners and theoreticians in the field.
ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes
August 13-17, 2010
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Plenary Speakers: S. R. S. Varadhan, Alain-Sol Sznitman, Erwin Bolthausen, Andrea Montanari, Alison Etheridge, Louis Chen, Maury Bramson, Gabor Lugosi.
28th European Meeting of Statisticians
August 17-22 ,2010
Piraeus, Greece
The purpose of EMS 2010 is to provide a forum where researchers from universities throughout the world, as well as practitioners, can discuss current problems, new approaches and future directions in the fields of Probability and Statistics. Young researchers and PhD students are especially invited to contribute papers.
International Congress of Mathematics 2010
August 19-27, 2010
Hyderabad, India
The Congress is structured in the traditional manner with the main activity being the Plenary and Sectional invited lecturers, the sectional talks being held in 7 or 8 parallel sessions. Efforts will be made to avoid overlap of talks on closely connected themes that may fall in different sections. There will also be paper-reading and poster sessions as is usual. The Organisers will also arrange special events such as non-technical talks connected with promotion of mathematics as well as cultural programmes.
August 22-27, 2010
Paris, France
The 19th International Conference on Computational Statistics. Keynote speakers: Luc Devroye, Lutz Edler, David Hand. Deadline for contributed papers: January, 10, 2010
Program on Complex Networks: Tutorials and Opening Workshop
August 29 - September 1, 2010
SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC
Tutorials and Opening Workshop
Prague Stochastics 2010
August 30 - September 3, 2010
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Stochastics 2010 is next in a series of international conferences on stochastics organized in Prague since 1956. The scientific programme will be aimed at covering a wide range of stochastics, with special emphasis on the topics of this lively field which have been pursued in Prague.
September
Stochastic Methods in Game Theory
September 8-16, 2010
Erice, Sicily, Italy
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Marco Scarsini
(IMS
Co-Sponsored Meeting)
Program on Analysis of Object Oriented Data
September 12-15, 2010
SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC
The 12-month SAMSI program will focus on the analysis of complex data types that are an extension of Functional Data Analysis where one considers methods to analyze data samples of complex objects.
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
September 2010
Osaka, Japan
(IMS
Co-Sponsored Meeting)
XVIII
Annual Congress of the Portuguese Statist. Soc.
September 29 - October 2, 2010
S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal
This is a forum for discussion and presentation of activities and new ideias in statistics and probability. There will be a special focus on nonparametric methods and, as an introduction to the Census in preparation in Portugal, on sampling. A short course in nonparametric methods will be given.
October
Education and Outreach Program: Two-Day Undergraduate Workshop
October 29-30, 2010
SAMSI, Research Triangle Park
December
Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2010)
December 6-10, 2010
Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia
The objectives of this conference are to inform delegates about new work and developments in statistics; provide an opportunity for professionals from all areas of statistics to network; to draw world class statisticians and share their knowledge and expertise.
2010 ICSA International Conference
December 19-22, 2010
Guangzhou University, Guang-Zhou, China