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The next SemStat on Statistics of Spatio-temporal Systems will be held in 12-19 December 2004 in Höhenried near Munich, Germany, financed through a successful bid of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) to the 6th framework program of the European Commission. This event is held under the auspices of the Department of Statistics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, with additional financial support from the German Science Foundation through the SFB 386.
The meeting takes place in the beautiful surroundings of Schloss Höhenried at Lake Starnberg, approximately 40 minutes by train from Munich. For further details, see www.schloss-hoehenried.de .
The following scientists have so far agreed to give invited lectures at this meeting.
Applications are now invited from PhD students and postdocs from EU countries to participate in this exciting event. The deadline is 30 September 2004.
Please visit the Semstat website at www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/semstat2004/ for further information.
This school will be held at the Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile.
Courses will be delivered by Chris Burdzy (Washington), Bernard Host (Marne-la-Vallée), Chris Hoffman (Washington) and Heinrich Matzinger (Bielefeld and Georgia Institute of Technology). The organisers are Alejandro Maass, Servet Martinez and Jaime San Martin.
For information contact Gladys Cavallone gladys@dim.uchile.cl .
This conference will be held at the Metabief, France, 9-14 January 2005. For more information, please contact Yurii Kabanov ( kabanov@math.univ-fcomte.fr ). The Organising/Scientific Committee includes Yurii Kabanov (chair), Leonid Galtchouk, Boris Rozovskii, Robert Liptser, Alexander Novikov and Jordan Stoyanov.
This conference will be held at the Birla Science Museum, Hyderabad, India, across the New Year: 29 December 2004 - 1 January 2005. For more information, please contact C. R. Rao (Penn State) ( crr1@psu.edu ), N. Balakrishnan (McMaster) ( bala@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca ), N. Kannan (Texas, San Antonio) ( nkannan@utsa.edu ), H. N. Nagaraja (Ohio State) ( hnn@stat.ohio-state.edu ) or Dipak Dey (Connecticut) ( dey@merlot.stat.uconn.edu ).
The Fourth Symposium on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications will be held at the newly founded Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. The pattern of the Symposium will be similar to that of the first two such meetings in Aarhus (1999, 2002) and the third in Paris (2003). The organisers are Ron Doney (Manchester), Dave Applebaum (Nottingham Trent), Nick Bingham (Sheffield), Charles Goldie (Sussex) and René Schilling (Sussex). There will be breakout sessions on fractals, sub-organised by B Hambly (Oxford) and T Kumagai (Kyoto), and on finance, by A Kyprianou (Utrecht). In addition the symposium will include a special day in honour of the 75th birthday of S. James Taylor.
For more information please visit the website www.ma.man.ac.uk/4levy-conference.html or contact the organisers at rad@maths.man.ac.uk or r.schilling@sussex.ac.uk .
The second joint international meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) will be held in Bormio, Italy (site of the world ski championships), 12-14 January, 2005.
A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications in the fifteen years since the publication of Gelfand and Smith (1990, JASA), the paper that introduced these methods to mainstream statisticians. The conference will also feature three plenary speakers and six invited sessions from internationally known experts covering a broad array of current and developing statistical practice:
As with the first joint IMS-ISBA meeting in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, nightly poster sessions will offer substantial opportunity for informal learning and interaction.
Following up on the success of COBAL1, the Second Latin American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (COBAL 2) will be held 6-10 February 2005 at Hotel Presidente Intercontinental "Los Cabos", in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico. This meeting will consist of invited talks and poster sessions. More details on the program, registration fees and lodging costs will be available soon at the following website www.dpye.iimas.unam.mx/cobal2/ . For more information, please send an e-mail to cobal2@sigma.iimas.unam.mx .
This workshop will be held at Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 March - 1 April 2005. The purpose 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. The Workshop will provide a forum through which statisticians may be better informed of the latest developments and newest techniques in linear algebra and matrix theory and may exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries.
The Workshop will include invited and contributed talks. It is intended that refereed Conference Proceedings will be published.
Further details will become available at iwms2005.massey.ac.nz/. This website will be updated on a regular basis.
IWMS-2005 is a satellite conference of the 55th Biennial Session of the International Statistical Institute to be held in Sydney, Australia, 5-12 April, 2005.
The Local Organising Committee is chaired by Jeff Hunter: j.hunter@massey.ac.nz .
The International Organising Committee consists of
The University of Siena, Italy, will host this conference 23-26 May 2005. The Conference main topics are related to Income and Wealth Distributions, Lorenz Curve, Human Capital, Inequality and Poverty.
Invited speakers are
The Chairman of Scientific Committee is Professor S Kotz, and the Chairman of Organising Committee is Professor A Lemmi.
Contact servcong@unisi.it for more information.
This meeting will be held in Hong Kong, China, 20-24 June 2005.
Professor Kai-Tai Fang, Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, is the co-inventor of the uniform experimental design, which is used by engineers to expedite product development. He has discovered new methods for inference in multivariate data. In recent years he has collaborated with biologists and chemists to enhance our understanding of Chinese medicine. He is the author or co-author of six research monographs, twelve textbooks and over 250 articles that cover computational statistics, distribution theory, experimental design, growth curve models, Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, multivariate analysis, optimization, popularity, statistical graphs, statistical inference and others. As Professor Fang celebrates his 65th birthday, we are organising a conference to recognise his achievements. The conference will cover all main areas in statistics.
Contact fang65@math.hkbu.edu.hk or visit www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/Fang65/ for more information.
SPA'05 will be a major international meeting, covering the most exciting recent developments in probability. It will be held on the sunny seaside campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Opening with a reception on Sunday, 26 June, the program will include three Special Invited Lectures given by leading researchers, 13 invited talks, and numerous contributed talks. A mid-conference tour and conference dinner will encourage informal interactions between participants.
Some evenings are left free for the participants to explore the beautiful town of Santa Barbara or swim in the Pacific Ocean at nearby Goleta beach.
The meeting is held under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and co-sponsored by the IMS. The program will feature a Lévy Lecture delivered by Jean Bertoin (Paris VI), two IMS Medallion Lectures presented by Jean-François Le Gall (Paris VI) and Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH Zurich), and invited and contributed talks.
Invited speakers are Percy Deift (Courant), Darrell Duffie (Stanford), Janos Englander (UC Santa Barbara), Nina Gantert (Karlsruhe), Peter Glynn (Stanford), Claudio Landim (IMPA), Vlada Limic (Vancouver), Leonid Mytnik (Technion), Walter Schachermayer (Vienna), Jonathan Taylor (Stanford), Bálint Tóth (Budapest), Tandy Warnow (UT Austin), and Nobuo Yoshida (Kyoto).
Contributed paper submissions from new researchers and graduate students are especially encouraged. Although California, and Santa Barbara in particular, are well-known for high hotel prices, we will be able to host participants on campus for an estimated cost of about USD420 (single) and USD340 (double), including three all-you-can-eat buffet style meals (actual costs will be available in December). Several scholarships are available for US-based (but not necessarily US citizens) students and for new researchers. Please check details on the website above.
The Scientific Program Committee is: Raya Feldman (Chair, UC Santa Barbara), Robert Adler (Technion), David Aldous (UC Berkeley), Guillaume Bonnet (UC Santa Barbara), Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft and U of Washington), Don Dawson (Carleton U), Rick Durrett (Cornell U), Klaus Fleischmann (WIAS), Tadahisa Funaki (U of Tokyo), Paul Glasserman (Columbia U), Olle Häggström (Chalmers U of Technology), Thomas Mikosch (U of Copenhagen), Philip Pollett (U of Queensland), Wendelin Werner (U Paris-Sud), and Ruth Williams (UC San Diego).
This meeting will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, on 26 June 2005. It is a satellite meeting of the 30th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Application (see above).
Phenomenon such as molecular transport, gene regulation and cellular behavior require very sophisticated models to understand their functions, and the role of mathematicians in this domain is crucial to the analysis of these models. The goal of the workshop is to bring together probabilists interested in biological applications and experts in interdisciplinary research in stochastic modeling for molecular biology problems.
See www.pstat.ucsb.edu/projects/smmsb/ for details, or email the organiser Guillaume Bonnet at bonnet@pstat.ucsb.edu .
This meeting will be held in Salvador, Brazil, 2-7 July 2005. For further information, please see the website www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~scott/symposium or contact biomcmc@maths.unsw.edu.au .
This meeting will be held in Sydney, Australia, 7-8 July 2005. It will be organised by the IASE and the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE), with support of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Statistics educators, statisticians, teachers and educators at large are invited to contribute to the scientific program.
Types of contribution include invited papers, contributed papers and posters. No person may author more than one invited paper at the conference, although the same person can be co-author of more than one paper, provided each paper is presented by a different person.
Voluntary refereeing procedures will be implemented for ICOTS7. Details of how to prepare manuscripts, the refereeing process and final submission arrangements will be announced later.
Invited Paper Sessions are organised within nine different conference topics. The list of topic and sessions themes, with email contacts for session organizers, is available at www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7 , the ICOTS-7 web site, under “Scientific Program”. Those interested in submitting an invited paper should contact the appropriate session organiser before 1 December 2004.
Contributed paper sessions will be arranged in a variety of areas. Those interested in submitting one should contact Joachim Engel ( engel_joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de ) or Allan MacLean ( alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au ) before September 1, 2005.
Those interested in submitting a poster should contact Celi Lopes ( celilopes@uol.com.br ) before 1 February 2006.
Details about the registration procedure will be given later.
If requested, the IASE is normally happy to give permission for authors to submit their papers (or a more comprehensive version) to other journals, such as Statistics Education Research Journal, Journal of Statistics Education, International Statistical Review or Teaching Statistics. If this occurs the author must seek approval of the editors of the ICOTS7 Proceedings and the IASE President. The paper must have an acknowledgement saying "This article was written for, and published in, the ICOTS7 Proceedings and is reprinted (in revised form, if relevant) here with the permission of the IASE".
More information is available from the ICOTS-7 web site or from the ICOTS IPC Chair Carmen Batanero ( batanero@ugr.es ), the Program Chair Susan Starkings ( starkisa@lsbu.ac.uk ) and the Scientific Secretary John Harraway ( jharraway@maths.otago.ac.nz ).
This meeting will be held in Beijing, China, 9-11 July 2005. For further information, see math.bnu.edu.cn/statprob/CSPS-IMS2005/.
The joint meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics (CSPS) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) will take place in Beijing on 9-11 July 2005.
The venue of the meeting is Peking University with accommodation in the nearby Friendship Hotel (shuttles will be provided between the university and the hotel). As a city, Beijing offers many cultural attractions. The Program and Local Organising Committees will be delighted to invite you to come to Beijing. Your participation will ensure that the 2005 CSPS/IMS joint meeting becomes an unforgettable scientific event.
The invited program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent and state-of-the-art developments in modern methodology research and applications such as non-parametric statistics, machine learning, finance, bioinformatics, environmental statistics, and information technology.
Submissions of contributed papers are invited via the conference website with a deadline of 20 January 2005.
Moreover, a half day sightseeing to the Great Wall during the meeting is planned and an after-meeting program and an accompanying persons program during the meeting are also being planned. Please visit the conference website for updates.
We look forward to meeting you in Beijing!
The conference (SMOCS-05) will be held 10-16 July 2005 at the Daydream Island resort (Whitsundays, near Proserpine, Queensland, Australia).
The conference is organised and partly sponsored by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems ( www.complex.org.au ) and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute ( www.amsi.org.au ). The Australian Fourth National Symposium on Financial Mathematics will be an organic part of the Conference. Other topics include, but are not limited to:
• mathematical and statistical foundations of complex systems;
• Markov processes and related models; Monte Carlo methods;
• stochastic networks;
• discrete random processes and randomised algorithms;
• applications to telecommunications;
• applications to transport industry;
• applications to supply chain management;
• modelling in biology and medicine.
One of the conference sessions will be dedicated to the 80th birthday of Professor Joe Gani.
Scientific Organising/Program Committee of SMOCS-05 comprises: Soren Asmussen, Kostya Borovkov (chairman), Tim Brown, Louis Chen, Daniel Dufresne, Peter Hall, Chris Heyde, Victor Korotkich, Yoshio Miyahara, Alex Novikov, Eckhard Platen, Phil Pollett, Peter Taylor and Aihua Xia.
The program will consists of fifty-minute invited and twenty-five-minute contributed talks. Confirmed invited speakers include: N El Karoui, R Elliot, C R Hwang, P Imkeller, S Ogawa, L Rueschendorf, A N Shiryaev, F Spieksma, S Tavare and V Vatutin.
The SMOCS-05 Web page is located at www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/smocs05/ .
The conference will be held 20-23 July 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The ISIPTA meetings are one of the primary international forums to present and discuss new results on the theory and applications of imprecise probabilities. Imprecise probability has a wide scope, being a generic term for the many mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. These models include belief functions, Choquet capacities, comparative probability orderings, convex sets of probability measures, fuzzy measures, interval-valued probabilities, possibility measures, plausibility measures, and upper and lower expectations or previsions. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be incomplete.
Although the symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised: decision-making, algorithms, and real applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following.
There will be a workshop addendum to the conference, to be held on 24 July 2004, with invited speakers on the topic of financial risk assessment, to which all of the ISIPTA'05 participants are welcome, at no additional registration cost.
Details will be announced later.
Note the following important dates.
The Program Board comprises
The Steering Committee comprises
If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the Organising Committee at teddy@stat.cmu.edu or fgcozman@usp.br or at the following address.
Teddy Seidenfeld
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Telephone +1 412 268 2209
Facsimile +1 412 268 1440
The 25th European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Oslo, the capital of Norway, 24-28 July 2005, under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society. See the accompanying advertisement on the preceding pages.
This conference will be held at the University of Minnesota, 2-6 August 2005. These conferences were/are organised by the IMS to promote interaction among new researchers primarily by introducing them to each other's research in an informal setting. As part of the conference, participants will present talks and posters on their research and discuss interests and professional experiences over meals and social activities organised through the meeting as well as by the participants themselves. The relationships established in this informal collegiate setting among junior researchers are ones that may last a career, or even lifetime!
The New Researchers Conference is a meeting of recent PhD recipients in Statistics and Probability. A new researcher is defined as anyone who has received a PhD since 2000.
Those interested in attending the conference will be requested to submit the following information to the Committee: a letter of intent, a curriculum vitae, and an abstract for a talk or poster. Electronic mail is preferred for abstract submission.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 February 2005. Please apply promptly since the number of participants is limited. Priority will be given to first time participants. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Also, contingent on the availability of funds, support to defray travel and housing costs will be offered.
For Further details, please see the website pages.pomona.edu/~jsh04747/NRC/NRC.htmor email Galin Jones: galin@stat.umn.edu .
The deadline for applications is 15 February 2005.
This conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 14-17 March 2006.
This conference is held every two years by the Fachgruppe Stochastik of the German Mathematical Society. It provides a forum for participants from universities, business, and industry to discuss new results in the area of probability and statistics.
The “Stochastik-Tage" have become the major event probability and statistics in Germany, and belong to the most important probability and statistics conferences in Europe. There will be 14 sections covering major parts of the field, and a few hundred participants are expected.
A first announcement of the conference, including the list of sections, their
organisers and the plenary speakers, is at
stoch2006.math.uni-frankfurt.de/index_en.html.
This conference will be held in Guanajuato, Mexico, 20-24 March 2006. Contact pabreu@cimat.mx or visit the website www.cimat.mx/Eventos/oebn-conference for more information.
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/ .
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/ .
This conference will be held in Torun, Poland. This is the first announcement.
The chairperson of the Scientific Program Committee is Herold Dehling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun) is in the chair of the Local Organising Committee.
The town of Torun, located over the biggest river of Poland, Vistula, is famous for being the place where Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473. Torun's main attraction is as the medieval town of Torun, as inscribed in The World Heritage List. The old town of Torun 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 Torun visit www.torun.pl .
Nicolaus Copernicus University is the main organising institution of the conference. It was founded in 1945, by a group of professors which left Vilnius. The university 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 University.
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 .
This conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, 21-25 August 2006. It is a joint session of the 7th Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics and the 15th 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 University and the Department of Stochastic Information, Institute of Information and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences.
The scientific program will be aimed to cover 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 University, Sokolovska 83, 186 75 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, e-mail praskova@karlin.mff.cuni.cz , or see www.utia.cas.cz/pragstoch06 for further details.