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A conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of B.V.GnedenkoOrganizing committee: V.S.Korolyuk (co-head), Yu.V.Prokhorov (co-head), V.V.Buldygin, S.S.Demidov, D.B.Gnedenko, I.A.Ibragimov, V.I.Khokhlov, O.I.Klesov, Yu.G.Kondratiev, Yu.S.Mishura, M.O.Perestyuk, N.I.Portenko, Yu.A.Rozanov, A.M.Samoilenko, V.V.Sazonov, B.A.Sevastyanov, A.N.Shiryaev, Ya.G.Sinai, M.I.Skil', V.V.Skopenko, A.V.Skorokhod, N.N.Vakhania, M.I.Yadrenko, O.K.Zakusylo, V.M.Zolotarev.
Sections and organizers
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Philipp University is pleased to announce an international symposium on the topic "Managing and analyzing data streams: towards unifying approaches from mathematical statistics and computer science".
Scope of the meeting Despite the fact of great improvement in computer technology, efficient management of massive data streams and their real-time analysis today still are among the most challenging problems. In many cases, statistical methods have to be employed that support both data compression and on-line query processing techniques. So far, there has been little cooperation between different scientific communities such as mathematical statistics, data mining and database systems. Important methods in the area of statistics are often unknown in the area of computer science, and vice versa.
The interdisciplinary meeting is intended to help bridging the gap. It is open to all interested re- searchers in universities, business, administration and industry.
Programme Committee: Volker Mammitzsch (Chair), Wolfgang Gromes, Bernhard Seeger, Manfred Sommer, Josef Steinebach, Alfred Ultsch.
Local Organizer: Volker Mammitzsch, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Hans-Meerwein-Straße, D-35032 Marburg, Germany, Phone: +49-(0)6421-28-25484, Fax: +49-(0)6421-28-28986, <mammit@mathematik.uni-marburg.de>
Scientific Programme There will be seven sections, each one starting with an unparalleled invited lecture followed by contributed papers. An open section will be arranged, too.
Sections and Invited Speakers
In order to emphasize the practical relevance of the Symposium, a Special Section with lectures and computer animations open to the public will also be organized.
The Barcelona Conference on Stochastic Inequalities and
their ApplicationsStriking advances on stochastic inequalities have taken place in recent years. The most dramatic advance is probably Talagrand's extension of the classical Prohorov-Bernstein exponential inequalities to empirical processes, which is already having a tremendous impact in Mathematical Statistics and in other areas. Also, differential and geometric techniques are being borrowed from other areas and being successfuly incorporated in Probability, and the more classical probability techniques are being refined, in order to obtain inequalities useful in the study of limit theory, regularity of solutions of stochastic differential equations, time regularity of anticipating integrals, Malliavin Calculus, combinatorial optimization, information theory.
The topics to be covered in this Euroconference belong to different areas of Probability, Statistics and Analysis, and therefore the conference will provide a unique opportunity for exchange of ideas occurring in different fields and for interdisciplinary contact and collaboration, that will hopefuly lead to fruitful developments. The topics include: Concentration and deviation inequalities for various types of processes using isoperimetry, differential inequalities and information inequalities; other exponential and moment inequalities for sums of independent or weakly dependent random vectors and related variables; inequalities in Malliavin Calculus; geometric inequalities for log-concave probability measures, particularly Gaussian correlation inequalities; martingale and decoupling inequalities.
A very successful first Conference on Stochastic Inequalities, with a coverage of similar topics, took place in Atlanta, USA, in 1997.
The Scientific program will have plenary lectures, invited and contributed half hour lectures, and problem and discussion sessions. Submissions are encouraged in the areas described above.
Plenary Lectures will be given by Luís Caffarelli (Austin, Texas, USA), Nicolai Krylov (Saint Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Rafal Latala (Warsaw, Poland), Michel Ledoux (Toulouse, France), Gàbor Lugosi (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), Pascal Massart (Orsay, France), Colin McDiarmid (Oxford, UK), Philip Protter (Ithaca, New York, USA), Emmanuel Rio (Versailles, France) and Ofer Zeitouni (Haifa, Israel).
Scientific Program Committee: Evarist Giné (Storrs, Connecticut, USA), David Nualart (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) and Christian Houdré (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
Local Organizing Committee: David Nualart, Frederic Utzet, Arturo Kohatsu, Maria Jolis.
Further Information. Details about registration and further information will be available from the web page, or by contacting the secretary of the Conference, Consol Roca, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Apartat 50, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; <crm@crm.es>; phone: 34-93-5811081.
The conference aims to provide a forum of discussion to scientists working for the environment in different fields and types of applications. The list of sessions will include: Air quality monitoring and assessment, Chemometrics, Cleaner Production Methods, Ecological monitoring, Energy and Environment, Environmental Economics, Environmental human health statistics, Environmental Management Systems, Environmental monitoring, Environmental risk assessment, Environmental standards, Environmental sustainability and environmetrics, Environmental transport and mixing processes, Environmetrics in meteorology and climatology, Global Environmental Problems, Integrating remote sensing in monitoring, International environmental statistics, Modeling environmental systems, National environmental statistics, Remediation Techniques, Statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology, Training in environmental statistics,Water quality monitoring and assessment.
The conference will include plenary papers, invited paper sessions, contributed paper sessions, and poster sessions. Two special lectures will be given: the J.Stuart Hunter Lecture and the TIES President Invited Lecture. The conference will include a short course on the estimation of human impact on the environment.
Members of the Organizing Committee: Daniela Cocchi (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy), V. Dovì (Università di Genova, Italy), Sylvia Esterby (Okanagan University College, Canada).
SPA 2002: 28th International Conference on
Stochastic Processes and their ApplicationsThe Scientific Programme Committee includes: S.Asmussen, P.J.Brockwell, L.H.Y.Chen, F.Den Hollander, C.C.Heyde, G.R.Grimmett, I.A.Ibragimov, O.Zeitouni.
The Organizing Committee consists of: T.Brown (chairman), K.Borovkov (sci. secretary), G.Byrnes, K.Hamza, B.Hughes, F.Klebaner, A.Sudbury, R.Watson, N.Wormald, A.Xia
The topics include, but are not limited to: stochastic analysis, discrete random processes and randomised algorithms, topics in limit theorems, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Markov processes, random processes in random environments, point processes, as well as application areas such as: stochastic processes in finance and insurance, stochastic processes in physics, applications to telecommunications, time series, modelling in biology and medicine.
The 2002 Taipei International Statistical Symposium
and Bernoulli Society EAPR ConferenceThe International Workshop on Statistical Modelling concentrates on the various aspects of statistical modelling, including theoretical developments, applications and computational methods. Papers motivated by real practical problems are encouraged, but theoretical contributions addressing problems of practical importance or related to software developments are also welcome.
The scientific programme is characterized by having invited lectures and a pre-workshop tutorial, contributed papers, posters and software demonstrations. Contributed papers should be suitable for a 20 to 30 minute oral presentation (including discussion) and focus on motivation, statement of key results and conclusions, and emphasize examples, wherever possible. Submissions are especially encouraged in the following areas: Health, Environment, Education, Economy, Social Issues, Missing data, mixed effects models, repeated measurements and event history analysis.
Students are encouraged to attend the workshop. The programme is designed to allow for discussions and interchange between junior and senior scientists. A special session is devoted to students contributions, and an award for the best student presentation will be given.
Scientific Programme Committee: Abdel Babiker (MRC, UK), Petros Dellaportas (AUEB, Greece), Ludwig Fahrmeir (Munich, Germany), Bob Gilchrist (UNL, UK), Bent Jørgensen (Odense, Denmark), Klea Katsouyanni (AMS, Greece), Göran Kauermann (Glasgow, UK), John Panaretos (AUEB, Greece), Clive Richarson (Panetion University of Athens, Greece), Mikis Stasinopoulos (UNL, UK, coordinator), Giota Touloumi (AMS, Greece), Geert Verbeke (Leuven, Belgium), Constantin Yiannoutsos (Harvard, USA).
Local Organizing Committee: Christina Bamia (AMS, Athens), Chrys Caroni (NTUA, Athens), Dimitris Karlis (AUEB, Athens), Klea Katsouyanni (AMS, Athens), Markos Koutras (PP, Pireas), Vana Sypsa (AMS, Athens), Christos Skiadas (PK, Chania), Mikis Stasinopoulos (UNL, London), Giota Touloumi (AMS, Athens), Anastasia Tzonou (AMS, Athens).
Further information details about invited speakers, registration for the workshop, instructions for authors, deadlines and further information will be available from the workshop homepage, or contact the organizer: Mikis Stasinopoulos, STORM, University of North London, Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, UK. Phone: +44 20 7753 5792, fax: +44 20 7753 5793, E-mail: <d.stasinopoulos@unl.ac.uk>.
Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric StatisticsThe meeting is cosponsored by Bernoulli Society, IMS and the Nonparametrics Section of ASA.
The conference will highlight the major trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics. The program will include plenary talks, specially invited talks, invited talks and contributed talks on all areas of nonparametric statistics.
A primary objective of the conference is to promote collaborations among senior and junior researchers, as well as transnational and transcontinental collaborations.
Three prices for best presentations by students will be awarded.
Invited and contributed papers of the conference may be submitted to the conference organizers, M.Akritas and D.Politis, for possible publication in the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. Papers can be submitted at any time until 15 December 2002.
Main themes
In its 6th edition, the Brazilian School of Probability will take place in a nice beach called Praia das Toninhas, Ubatuba, on 5-10 August 2002. The school is intended as a forum to discuss new developments in probability and related areas, an occasion to detect new directions of research and to establish new collaborations and an opportunity for the students to begin their scientific life. Activities will include mini-courses, plenary talks by invited speakers, short communications and several problem sections to be delivered by senior invited researchers.
Scientific comitee: Jean Bertoin (Paris 6, France), Pierre Collet (École Polytechnique, France), Pablo Ferrari (IME-USP, Brazil), Antônio Galves (IME-USP, Brazil), Cláudio Landim (IMPA, Brazil), François Ledrappier (École Polytechnique, France), Alejandro Maass (Universidad de Chile, Chile).
Local organizer: Roberto Fernandez, Labo. de Maths Raphael SALEM, Univ. de Rouen, France; Ph: (+33) [0] 235 14 71 28/11, Fax: (+33) [0] 232 10 37 94.
Some invited speakers: Pierre Collet (École Polytechnique, France), Bernard Prum (Genopole Evry), Søren Asmussen (Lundt University, Sweden), Gianbattista Giacomin (Paris 7, France), Yuval Peres (Berkeley, USA), Rinaldo Schinazi (Université d'Aix, Marseille, France).
Further information details about up-to-date list of invited speakers, contributed talks, registration, instructions for authors or deadlines will be available from the 6th EBP homepage.
The Human Genome Project and advances in technology led to a huge amount of genetic data. However, knowledge of the underlying biological mechanisms and functionalities is still limited. These problems are extremely complex and require advanced and novel statistical techniques. The meeting will bring together state-of-the-art researchers from the following fields: Biological Sequence Analysis, Analysis of Microarray Data, Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Diseases, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Trees.
Invited speakers: David Balding, Amir Dembo, Paul Eilers, Trevor Hastie, Chris Holmes, Michael Newton, Gesine Reinert, Nuala Sheehan, Terry Speed.
Programme committee: Heike Bickeböller, Ludwig Fahrmeir, Claudia Klüppelberg, Gerhard Winkler.
The Meeting is supported by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), SFB 386: "Statistical Analysis of Discrete Structures".
For further information please contact the conference webpage or Iris Burger, SFB 386, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 München, Germany, <sfb386@stat.uni-muenchen.de>, fax: +49 89 2180 5039, phone: +49 89 2180 3418.
Satellite Meeting to the 24th European Meeting of Statisticians in Prague.
Topics
Organizing Committee
Invited Speakers
Contact Information
The Organising Committee
SSA 2002
c/o Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
2 Science Drive 2
Singapore 117543
Republic of Singapore
24th European Meeting of Statisticians
Scientific Programme Committee: J.Jurecková (Czech Republic), T.Ledwina (Poland), F.Liese (Germany), T.Mikosch (Denmark, Chair), C.Rogers (United Kingdom), I.Vajda (Czech Republic), D.von Rosen (Sweden).
Local Organizing Committee: J.Antoch, P.Bocek, A.Fialová, D.Hlubinka, J.Ivánek, M.Janzura (Chair), A.Otáhal, Z.Prásková, H.Rezanková, J.Vejnarová, M.Zeithamlová.
Scientific Programme
Special Invited Lectures
Topics for Contributed Talks
Martin Janzura
EMS 2002
Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Pod vodárenskou vezí 4
182 08 Praha 8
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420-2-6605 2572, (+420-2-8689 0298),
Fax: +420-2-8689 0378
E-mail: <ems@utia.cas.cz>
Satellite and Related Events
The Eleventh International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, in Celebration of George P.H.Styan's 65th Birthday, will be held at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, near Copenhagen, on 29-31 August 2002. This workshop will be hosted by the Division of Image Analysis and Computer Graphics in the Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (IMM) at the Technical University of Denmark and has been endorsed by the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
International Organizing Committee:
R.W.Farebrother (Victoria Univ. of Manchester, UK),
S.Puntanen (Univ. of Tampere, Finland),
H.J.Werner (Univ. of Bonn, Germany; chair).
Local Organizing Committee: K.Conradsen (chair), B.K.Ersboll, P.C.Hansen, A.A.Nielsen; all people are at DTU, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between matrix theory and statistics. This workshop will provide a forum through which statisticians working in the field of linear algebra and matrix theory may be better informed of the latest developments and newest techniques and may exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries. This workshop will include the presentation of both invited and contributed papers on matrices and statistics; it is expected that many of these papers will be published, after refereeing, in a "Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics" of Linear Algebra and Its Applications. Contributed Papers are welcome!
The Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science of the University of the Aegean is pleased to host the 2nd Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, to be held in Samos, on 20-22 September 2002. This event is jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Department of Applied Economics and Department of Mathematics) and the Université catholique de Louvain (Institute of Statistics and Actuarial research group), Belgium.
The Conference allows the presentation of the latest works in the area of actuarial science and finance. It is open to all persons interested in actuarial science and finance, be they from universities, insurance companies, banks, consulting firms or regulatory authorities. The conference aims to facilitate the contact and the communication between the practicians and the researchers; a special session will be devoted to different aspects of actuarial practice.
Main topics
There will three pre-conference short courses on 16-19
September 2002, at which postgraduate students and young reseachers
are specially welcome:
Organising committee: Soren Bisgaard (Conference Program Chair), Shirley Coleman, Jeroen de Mast, Ronald Does, Oystein Evandt, Lesley Fairbairn (Conference Co-ordinator), Arnoldo Frigessi, Paolo Giudici (Local Organizing Committee Vice-Chair), Fabrizio Ruggeri (Local Organizing Committee Chair), Henry Wynn.
The European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) was founded in 2000 as a network of people from industry and academia from all European nations interested in applying, promoting and facilitating the use of statistics in business and industry.
The purpose of this second annual conference to be held in Rimini is to build upon the success of the first conference held in Oslo on 17-18 September 2001; it will serve as an ideal forum for users of statistics to get together, share ideas and network. Any user, from the novices to experienced and their managers, are encouraged to participate. Papers and Posters will be presented showcasing a broad spectrum of applications and generate discussion about the use of statistics in a wide range of European business and industrial areas.
With this call for papers, we seek nominations for innovative presentations from a wide range of applications and types of business. Contributions are encouraged from business, industry, manufacturing, administration, marketing, sales, logistics and service showcasing. People from industry and business are invited to present their problems and current solutions. Applications can include, but are not limited to: design of experiments, data analysis and statistical graphics, data mining quality improvement and process control, six sigma applications, quality management, statistical modeling, survey sampling, environmental issues.
Potential speakers with applications or results with a focus on process improvement, product improvement, measurement quality, reliability, risk management, market and customer insight are highly encouraged to submit abstracts and participate in this conference.
The Euroworkshop on Statistical Modelling (EWSM) is a project which is funded by the European Commission (CORDIS) in the programme High Level Scientific Conferences. The project is also connected to the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Topic areas include: Traditional Model Diagnostic Tools, Graphical Model Diagnostics, Model validation using smoothing techniques, Bayesian Models and their validation, and Bootstrapping and its role in model evaluation.
The workshop is designed to have lectures from the Keynote Speakers (A.Davison, J.Hart, S.Weisberg) and further contributed presentations. The number of participants is limited to 30, where young researchers are particularly encouraged to participate actively by presenting their work. The major focus is on open discussions and questions and each session is accompanied by a separate discussion round.
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