Eventos Nacionales
- Simposio de Estadística: Cartagena. 11 - 15 de Agosto de 2008 Estadística en la industria y en los negocios
Eventos Internacionales
January
Statistical Paradigms – Recent Advances And Reconciliations
January 1–4, 2008
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
The conference will cover all mainstream areas of statistics as well as recently emerging new areas, e.g. Asymptotic Theory, all areas of Statistical Inference including Nonparametric, Semiparametric and Robust Inference, Directional Data Analysis, Environmental Statistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Multivariate Analysis, Design of Experiments, Sample Surveys, Survival Analysis and Reliability, Linear, Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Models, Modeling of Discrete Data, Bioinformatics, Chaos and Nonlinear Time Series, Spatial Statistics, Statistical Signal Processing, Statistical Computing and Statistical Genetics.
Contemporary Frontiers in High-Dimensional Statistical Data Analysis
January 7-11, 2008
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
The workshop will cover fundamental areas of modern statistical theory and methodology required for the analysis of important large-scale practical problems. The nature of the topics is such that it should be of interest to those working in machine learning research and others in computer science, as well as to mainstream statisticians.
MCMSki II: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Theory and Practice
January 9-11, 2008
Bormio, Italy (Italian Alps)
Program Chair: Bradley P. Carlin and Antonietta Mira
Register at: https://imstat.org/secure/registration/mcmski/register.asp
(IMS sponsored meeting)
University of Florida Tenth Annual Winter Workshop: Bayesian Model Selection and Objective Methods
January 11-12, 2008
Gainesville Florida
The workshop will focus on recent developments in the area of Bayesian model selection and those aspects of objective methods that have to do with model selection. A major purpose of the workshop is to discuss the many recent significant developments in Bayesian model selection; to discuss practical implementation; and to identify important problems and new research directions.
SAMSI Environmental Sensor Network Opening Workshop
January 13-16, 2008
Research Triangle Park, NC
The goal of the Opening Workshop is to identify research challenges and open problems facing embedded sensing of environmental phenomena, specifically focusing on the roles of inference, monitoring and prediction.
7th Winter school on Mathematical Finance
January 21-23, 2008
CongresHotel De Werelt, Lunteren
Registration, via the webpage, is possible as of early October.
January 22-23, 2008
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris
The aim of this annual workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on disordered or random systems, and to discuss recent developments on themes of common interest.
Rencontres de Physique Statistique
January 24-25, 2008
Paris
6th Workshop: Statistical methods for post-genomic data
January 31 - February 1, 2008
Rennes
This workshop will focus on statistical methods dedicated to post-genomic data such as transcriptome, proteome… High flow experimental methods aim at identifying the genes functions and their links with a biological process.
February
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference
February 7-8, 2008
Brussels, Belgium
The focus will be on the interplay between finance and insurance but also other topics in actuarial and financial mathematics are welcome.
Workshop on High-dimensional Data Analysis
February 27-29, 2008
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
It is hoped that this timely workshop will lead to fruitful synergy and collaboration between the participants and stimulate further advance in the important and challenging problem of high-dimensional data analysis.
February 28 - March 2, 2008
University of Notre Dame
The Center for Applied Mathemaics of the University of Notre dame will hold a conference “Emerging Directions in Probability and Statistics”.
March
8th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics
March 4-7, 2008.
Aachen, 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.
LUMS 2nd International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Information Technology 2008
March 9-12, 2008
Lahore, Pakistan
This conference will cover full range of research subjects in all fields of Mathematics. The following Topics include, but are not limited to: Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Actuarial Mathematics, Industrial and Financial Mathematics, Information Technology for Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics
Statistical Mechanics on Random Structures
March 10-14, 2008
EURANDOM, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
This workshop is the fifth in a successful series of YEP meetings at EURANDOM in the years 2004-2007. This year, the main focus of the workshop will be the investigation of the large scale behaviour of systems whose “interaction network” is modelled by random graphs.
March 16-19, 2008
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA
(IMS sponsored meeting)
March 31 - April 4, 2008
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
The aim of this workshop is to bring together many of the mathematicians at the forefront of this effort, to report on the newest developments and to initiate further joint projects.
High Dimensional Statistics in Biology
March 31 April 4, 2008
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
Workshop Organisers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Ewan Birney (EBI), Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute) and Wolfgang Huber (EBI)
Deadline: 30 November 2007
April
Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2008
April 3-5, 2008
University of Delaware
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 Frank Knight’s Mathematical career.
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
Research Workshop on Bayesian Analysis of High Dimensional Data
April 14-16, 2008
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
The primary aim of the workshop is to highlight recent methodological and applied advances in the Bayesian analysis of complex data. This workshop is a satellite event within the program “Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High Dimensional Data” of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Workshop on Composite Likelihood Methods
April 15-17, 2008
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
This international workshop aims to review the state of art of composite likelihood inference, and to promote vigorous discussion of foundations, applications and future developments.
(IMS sponsored meeting)
Evolution Equations in Pure and Applied Sciences. A Symposium in Honour of Aldo Belleni-Morante
April 18-19, 2008
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Second Cayuga Triangle Meeting
April 18-19, 2008
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
If you are interested in attending the conference please send an email tortd1@cornell.edu at least 10 days prior to the event, and indicate whether you will need a room and if you would like to attend the dinner.
April 21-25, 2008
Bedlewo, Poland
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects.
A Two-day Workshop on Bayesian Methods That Frequentists Should Know
April 30 - May 1, 2008
The University of Maryland Statistics Consortium College Park
The main purpose of the workshop is to assess the current state of usage of the Bayesian methodology in different disciplines and to discuss potential issues preventing the applications of the Bayesian methods. The workshop will highlight methods that have broad interest and appeal cutting across the Bayesian/Frequentist divide.
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
May
International Conference on Statistics and its Applications in Management
May 1-3, 2008
IIM Kozhikode
The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of recent developments in statistical methodology and its novel applications in management.
2nd Graduate Student Conference in Probability
May 2-4, 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
We give you the opportunity to practice giving a conference talk about your research. We also try to establish connections between students interested in the same areas, in order to inspire subsequent collaboration. At the end of the conference, you will have a better idea about what people in the same career stage as you are working on
Mathematical Imaging and Digital Media
May 5 - June 27, 2008
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
The purpose of this program is to conduct multidisciplinary studies involving mathematical perspectives and foundation of imaging science and digital media.
99th Statistical Mechanics Conference
May 11-13, 2008
Rutgers University
At this meeting we will celebrate the birthdays and achievements of our distinguished colleagues, Edouard Brezin and Giorgio Parisi.
May 16-17, 2208
Michigan State University
A Conference in honor of Professor H.L. Koul on his 65th birthday. The conference will focus on some of the latest developments in different areas of Statistics in recent years.
May 19-21, 2008
Pavia, Italy
The aim of this Course is to review these developments and to provide state-of-the-art statistical solutions for genetic path identification, and for dealing with problems of confounding due to population admixture and of selection bias resulting from ascertainment conditions in genetic association studies.
Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications
May 19-23, 2008
Centro Stefano Franscini - Ascona, Switzerland
The topics include: Stochastics and climatology, Stochastic partial differential equations, Random fields, Stochastic analysis and finance, and Energy, climate and finance.
2008 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology
May 19-24, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
If you have any questions, please contact the one of the 2008 SRC program co-chairs: Paul Kvam pkvam@isye.gatech.edu, Jye-Chyi Lu jclu@isye.gatech.edu, or Kwok Tsui ktsui@isye.gatech.edu.
(IMS sponsored meeting)
May 22-25, 2008
University of Connecticut-Storrs
The conference information is available on the website http://merlot.stat.uconn.edu/~nitis/IISA2008/index.htm
Nonparametric Statistics and Mixture Models: Past, Present, and Future
May 23-24, 2008
Penn State University, University Park, PA
The program committee invites proposals for papers focusing on any aspect of nonparametric statistics, mixture modeling, connections between those fields, and related applications.
Joint Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada and of the Société Française de Statistique
May 25-29, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
This international conference will bring together academic, governmental and industrial researchers as well as users of statistics and probability, from the two continents. It will present workshops, invited and contributed sessions.
The Fifth Conference on High Dimensional Probability
May 26-30, 2008
Luminy, France
Organizers: Christian Houdre (houdre@math.gatech.edu), Vladimir Koltchinskii (vlad@math.gatech.edu), David Mason (davidm@udel.edu), Magda Peligrad (magda.peligrad@uc.edu)
Fourth Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND4)
May 29-31, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
This workshop series is concerned with analysis of neural signals from various sources, including EEG, fMRI, MEG, 2-Photon, and extracellular recordings.
Statistics—Theory and Practice
May 30-31, 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
We celebrate the career of Richard Johnson and the contributions of all of the students, colleagues, and collaborators who have enriched his 42 years at Wisconsin.
June
Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Chaos
June 2–7, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
The global aim of quantum chaos is to understand the spectral and dynamical properties of quantum systems, which can be related in some limit to a classical dynamical system. The behaviour of the latter may range from very regular to very chaotic.
Workshop on “Bootstrap and Time Series”
June 5-6, 2008
Kaiserslautern, Germany
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on resampling techniques for dependent data. Call for talks and posters: Abstracts should be submitted electronically to bootstrap08@mathematik.uni-kl.de by April 1st, 2008.
June 8-11, 2008
Charleston, South Carolina
Hosted by the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. The conference is designed to facilitate interaction between junior and senior researchers. Contributed poster presentations from graduate students and junior faculty are especially encouraged. Grant funding is anticipated to support students and junior researchers. For more information, please visit our website or email Angela Williams at srcos08info@musc.edu.
International Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis
June 8–11, 2008
Protaras, Cyprus
IMS Rep: Rainer von Sachs (UC Louvain, Belgium)
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability 2008
June 11-13
Hangzhou, China
Organizing Chairs: Zhengyan Lin, Zhejiang University; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
Click here to register for this meeting
(IMS sponsored meeting)
PIMS-UBC 2008: Summer School in Probability
June 11 - July 8, 2008
Vancouver, BC, Canada
The school will comprise two graduate courses (each of 30 hours): Brownian Motion and Analysis, by Chris Burdzy, and Discrete Spatial Processes in Probability, by Geoffrey Grimmett.
Stochastic Analysis and Applications: from Mathematical Physics to Mathematical Finance
June 13-15, 2008
Princeton, New Jersey
Sponsored by the NSF, ONR, the ORFE Department and the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, and is in honor of Professor Rene Carmona on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
22nd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics (NORDSTAT)
June 16-19, 2008
Vilnius, Lithuania
The official language at all sessions of this international conference is English. The focus is on recent research in the Nordic and Baltic countries, but we are also very happy to announce that the conference will be attended by a few specially invited guests from other countries. It will be an excellent possibility to share ideas, experience and recent scientific achievements, also to have a nice time together.
June 16-28, 2008
Saint Pierre Quiberon, France
The school is accommodated at the French National Sailing School (Ecole Nationale de Voile), located on the site of Beg Rohu.
Workshop on Inference and Estimation in Probabilistic Time-Series Models
June 18-20, 2008
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
The workshop will discuss both theories and applications related to probabilistic approaches to time-series analysis. Viewpoints and experiences from researchers belonging to different communities, including machine learning, statistics and statistical physics, are particularly encouraged.
First International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics
June 19-21, 2007
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
The objective of the conference, initiated by the working group STAPH, is to highlight the major trends in different areas of statistics with infinite dimension through the exchange of ideas and the promotion of collaboration between researchers from different countries. It aims at contributing to future developments of the fields.
2008 WNAR/IMS Western Regional Meeting Short Course
June 22, 2008
University of California, Davis
“R Survey Package Analyses for Two Phase Studies, with Applications in Epidemiology” by T. Lumley and N. Breslow..
(IMS sponsored meeting)
2008 WNAR/IMS Western Regional Meeting
June 23-25, 2008
University of California, Davis
Annual west-coast meeting, featuring invited and contributed paper sessions and plenary speakers Jerald Lawless and Peter Bartlett. Registration and wine-tasting reception (in the Davis tradition) on Sunday, exquisite Conference Banquet on Tuesday, Student Paper Competition, Young Researchers Luncheon. Program Chairs P. Heagerty and Charles Kooperberg.
(IMS sponsored meeting)
June 22-27, 2008
University of California at Santa Barbara
The program will focus sharply on recent developments in applications of the convex duality method to problems in finance.
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
Design & Analysis of Genetic-based Association Studies
June 23-27, 2008
Pavia, Italy
The objective of the course is to provide a detailed treatment of the statistical issues and methods involved in analyzing genetic-based association studies. Each topic covered will include a lecture followed by a practical session in which state-of-the-art statistical software will be applied to relevant datasets. The practical sessions will illustrate the ideas presented in the lectures. All the software used will be freely available so skills learnt can be applied to the datasets after the course.
Stochastic Networks Conference
June 23-28, 2008
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Chairs: F. Baccelli, J. Mairesse
4th Cornell Probability Summer School
June 23 - July 4, 2008
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
This year’s summer school will focus on probability problems that arise from ecology.
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 200 
June 25-28, 2008
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Organizers: Gunnar Carlsson, Michael Mahoney, Lek-Heng Lim, Petros Drineas
June 26-28, 2008
Padova, Italy
The DYNSTOCH workshops are a continuation of earlier workshops on Statistics for Dynamic Stochastic Models organised by the European Research Network DYNSTOCH.
Workshop on Nonparametric Inference – WNI2008
June 26-28, 2008
Dep. Mathematics, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
The purpose of the workshop is to illustrate active trends in nonparametric statistics.
Integrable Quantum Systems and Solvable Statistical Mechanical Models
June 30 – July 5, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
The topics include correlation functions, new development in the Ising model, Q operators and separation of variables, vacuum expectation values, connection to string theory and AdS/CFT correspondence, combinatorial structures, quantum entanglement, and applications to condensed matter physics.
July
International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics
July 1-4, 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
ISBIS-2008 is an international symposium sponsored by the International Society of Business and Industrial Statistics, focusing on quantitative aspects of Banking, Insurance and Finance, and important statistical issues relating to productivity improvement and decision-making at all levels of business and industry.
July 6-11, 2008
Montreal, Canada
The MCQMC Conference is a biennial meeting devoted to the study of Monte Carlo (MC) and Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the relationships between the two classes of methods, and their effective application in different areas.
The 38th Saint-Flour Probability Summer School
July 6-19, 2008
Universite Blaise Pascal, Aubiere Cedex, France
This year, the three courses will be R. Kenyon: “Dimers and random surfaces”, V. Koltchinskii: “Oracle inequalities in empirical risk minimization and sparse recovery problems”, Y. Le Jan: “Markovian paths, loops and fields”.
International Workshop in Applied Probability 2008 (IWAP 200
July 7-10, 2008
Universite Technologie de Compiegne (UTC), Compiegne, France
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Joseph Glaz, University of Connecticut
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
23th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM200
July 7-11, 2008
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Deadline for abstracts : 10 Febr. 2008. Final date for early registration: 14 April 2008.
July 7-18, 2008
Trieste, Italy
The discovery of the Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE) by Oded Schramm and the ensuing revitalization of 2D critical phenomena as a stochastic evolution of geometry has been the one of the most spectacular theoretical developments in recent years.The aim of this School is to provide an overview of these important and far-reaching recent developments by the leading experts in this field.
July 9, 2008
Helsinki, Finland
There have been several previous workshops on nonparametric Bayesian methods at machine learning conferences, including workshops at NIPS in 2003 and 2005 and a workshop at ICML workshop in 2006. This workshop aims to build on the success of these earlier workshops and to catalyze further research.
Symposium in honor of Kiyosi Itô: Stochastic Analysis and Its Impact in Mathematics and Science
July 10-11, 2008
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
The objective of the symposium is to gather together leading mathematicians and scientists to deliver expository lectures on Itô’s work, the historical development of stochastic analysis, and the influence and impact of stochastic analysis in various branches of mathematics and science. It will be aimed at mathematicians and scientists in general.
The XXIVth International Biometric Conference (IBC200
July 13-18, 2008
University College, Dublin (Ireland)
An invited session typically brings together a set of speakers (and possibly discussants) to describe the latest research in an area of statistical theory or application, and make it accessible to a non-expert audience. We encourage topics addressing a wide variety of emerging issues in biological sciences and life sciences.
Integrating Computing into the Statistics Curricula
July 14-17, 2008
Berkeley, California
This workshop will be a hands-on program for faculty interested in innovating statistics courses and curricula to better prepare statistics students to engage in creative statistical practice in today’s dynamic, data-rich scientific environment.
Efficient Monte Carlo: From Variance Reduction to Combinatorial Optimization
July 14-18, 2008
Sandbjerg, Denmark
Conference on the occasion of Reuven Y. Rubinstein’s 70 birthday.
International Conference on Statistical Physics (SigmaPhi200
July 14-18, 2008
Crete, Greece
The conference will be organized in sessions dealing with general aspects and fundamental problems of statistical physics.
2008 IMS Annual Meeting/7th Bernoulli World Congress
July 14-19, 2008
Singapore
Local Chair: Louis Chen
(IMS sponsored meeting)
LASR 2008 - The Art and Science of Statistical Bioinformatics
July 15-17, 2008
Leeds, U.K.
The 2008 Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop will focus on developments in interdisciplinary statistics and in particular the interface between statistical methodology and bioinformatics.
July 21-25, 2008
Hamilton Island, Australia
This conferences has become one of the premier events in Bayesian statistics. ISBA 2008 will broadly follow the tradition of these meetings, combining an excellent scientific programme that includes 5 keynote speakers, 90 oral presentations run over 3 parallel sessions and two poster evenings, with an active social schedule aimed at allowing delegates time to explore this beautiful location.
17th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS-08
July 23-26, 2008
Tomar, Portugal
In Honor of Professor T.W. Anderson’s 90th Birthday.
Current Trends and Challenges in Model Selection and Related Areas
July 24-26, 2008
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of current trends and challenging problems in model selection and related shrinkage methods.
Mathematical Horizons for Quantum Physics
July 28 - September 21, 2008
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
The Programme will consist of four overlapping three-week Sessions, each devoted to a selected topic.
Eleventh Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability
July 29 - August 2, 2008
Denver, CO, USA
Local chair: Ryan Elmore
(IMS sponsored meeting)
International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems
July 29 - August 2, 2008
University of Camerino, Italy
Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems covers a wide range of physical states that are many-body systems characterised by strong long-ranged interactions.
August
NISS/ASA Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers
August 3-6, 2008
Denver, Colorado, USA
Applications are due by June 1, 2008, and successful applicants will be notified by June 30. Applications received after June 1 will be considered if space is available. There is no fee for participation.
August 3-7, 2008
Denver Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
(IMS sponsored meeting)
XIIth Brazilian School of Probability (Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade)
August 3-9, 2008
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
August 3-16, 2008
Middelfart, Denmark
Organizers: Susanne Ditlevsen and Michael Sørensen.
Stochastic Loewner Evolution and Scaling Limits
August 4–9, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
Among the topics to be treated in this workshop are: SLE and its Extensions, Critical and Near-Critical Scaling Limits, Gaussian Free Field, Coulomb Gas Methods, Relation to Conformal Field Theory and Quantum Gravity.
Malliavin Calculus and its Applications
August 7-12, 2008
Kent State University, Ohio, USA
This conference will follow CBMS guidelines, with the main speaker, DAVID NUALART, delivering a series of 10 lectures. Each of the first 5 days there will be three lectures, two from Professor Nualart’s series plus another lecture by an invited speaker; this will leave plenty of time for interaction between the participants. The sixth day will be dedicated to contributed talks by other attendees. In addition, there will be a poster session where Ph.D. students and young investigators are encouraged to present their work.
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
ISCB-29 – International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
August 17-21, 2008
Copenhagen, Denmark
The 29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics in Copenhagen, Denmark will provide a forum for the international exchange of theory, methods and applications of biostatistics in medical research and practice among clinicians, statisticians and members of other disciplines, such as epidemiologists, clinical chemists and clinical pharmacologists, working or interested in the field of clinical biostatistics.
Laplacian Growth and Related Topics
August 18–23, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
This workshop is devoted to mathematical aspects of Laplacian Growth. A broad class of non-equilibrium growth processes have a common law: the normal velocity of the growing boundary of a region is proportional to the gradient of a harmonic field on the exterior. This type of growth (called Laplacian growth) is unstable for nearly all initial configurations. Instabilities develop into fractal singular patterns. Similar instabilities occur in the hydrodynamics of immiscible fluids.
Random Matrices, Related Topics and Applications
August 25–30, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
This workshop will focus on recent advances in the asymptotic spectral theory of random matrices, connections with (multi-)orthogonal polynomials, combinatorics and moduli space theory of Riemann surfaces, algebraic geometry, theory of isomonodromic deformations, number theory and Dyson processes.
Sample Surverys and Bayesian Statistics
August 26-29, 2008
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, Hampshire, UK
The aim of this meeting is to highlight the potential advantages of Bayesian methodology and discuss and illustrate its possible applications in diverse areas of sample survey design and inference.
September
2008 International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society
September 1-5, 2008
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham UK
RSS 2008 will be a general conference with a scientific programme aiming to encompass the range of statistical interests within the Society and beyond. The programme will include a broad range of special topics sessions with invited speakers from both the UK and overseas. There will also be a special programme of events for young statisticians, both on the pre-conference day and as part of the main conference. And a full and lively programme of social events. The deadline for abstract submissions is 31 March
Random Tilings, Random Partitions and Stochastic Growth Processes
September 1–6, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
Organizers: J. Baik (Michigan), A. Borodin (Toronto), B. Nienhuis (Amsterdam), N. Reshetikhin (Berkeley), H. Spohn (TU München)
ICORS 2008 (International Conference On Robust Statistics 200
September 8-12, 2008
Antalya, Turkey
The objective of the conference is to bring together both established and young researchers from around the world who are actively working on and/or interested in the theory, application and overall development of robust statistics and related fields. The conference provides a forum for leading experts and young researchers to discuss recent progress in the field, to exchange ideas, and to make informal contacts.
Fifth Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science
September 22-26, 2008
Blaubeuren, Germany
These meetings aim at creating a forum for researchers working on the closely related domains of probabilities, trees, algorithms and combinatorics. Basic data structures of Computer Science, such as trees or graphs, can, and should, be studied from several points of view: as the data structure underlying some algorithms, or as a combinatorial or probabilistic object.
Fourth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference
September 25, 2008
Amsterdam
We are inviting academics to submit papers in all areas relating to longevity risk and capital markets solutions. All papers will be submitted electronically toemma.brophy.1@city.ac.uk. The deadline for paper submission is 31st March 2008 and decisions will be communicated to authors by the end of April when the formal programme for the conference will be announced. Jointly authored papers should be submitted by the person who will present the paper, if it is accepted.
Quantum Many-Body Systems, Bose-Einstein Condensation
September 29 - October 4, 2008
Montreal, Quebec
The workshop will bring together experts with different backgrounds to review the current status of mathematical results in the field and to discuss new developments where a mathematical approach is potentially fruitful.
October
Conference for Women in Probability
October 5-7, 2008
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
IMS Reps: Lea Popovic, Amber Puha, Rick Durrett
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
October 24-25, 2008
Northwestern University
The program was organized by a committee consisting of Ananda Weerasinghe, Julien Dubedat, and Joseph Quinn(chair)
November
ISNI2008: International Seminar on Nonparametric Inference
November 5-7th 2008
Vigo, Spain
Seventeen invited talks given by leading researchers in several areas of nonparametric statistics: Peter Hall, Jianqin Fan, Hans-Georg Mueller, Winfried Stute, Gabor Lugosi, Geert Molenberghs, Stefan Sperlich, Holger Dette, Natalie Neumeyer, Gerda Claeskens, Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández, Anestis Antoniadis, Jan Swanepoel, Philippe Vieu, Anthony Davison, Lutz Duembgen, and Jean Opsomer. Contributed papers are welcome. The Journal of Nonparametric Statistics will devote a special issue with contributions to the meeting
(IMS co-sponsored meeting)
December
2008 International Conference on Applied Probability and Statistics (CAPS 200
December 1-3, 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam
This Conference aims to promote practical applications of probability and statistics, particularly in business and industry, and to strengthen international relations among researchers in these areas. Contributed papers to the Conference can be on Applied Probability or any area of Statistics. The Conference will be of interest both to researchers and to practitioners from business and industry.
64th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics
December 8-12, 2008
Tropicana Casino Resort, Atlantic City, NJ
The purpose of the three-day Deming Conference on Applied Statistics and the following two parallel two-day short courses is to provide a learning experience on recent developments in statistical methodologies. The conference is composed of twelve three-hour tutorials on current statistical topics of interest. Recognized experts in the field of applied statistics will be invited to give the lectures and short courses based on their recently published books.
