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First Canada Mexico Statistics Meeting
Workshop on Stochastics in Turbulence and Finance
Current Trends and Challenges in Model Selection and Related Areas
Efficient Monte Carlo: from variance reduction to combinatorial optimization
71st IMS Annual Meeting and 7th Bernoulli Society World Congress
New scaling limits and other recent developments in probability
This event will take place at the Centro de Investigaciones en Matemáticas
(Centre for Research in Mathematics) located in the City of Guanajuato, Mexico
on February 22-23, 2008.
www.cimat.mx/Eventos/canada-mexico-SM
The meeting is organized by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) and the
Asociación Mexicana de Estadística (Mexican Statistical Association, AME).
The scientific program includes invited talks and invited poster session on
different research areas including biostatistics, business statistics, data
mining, econometrics, spatial statistics, demography, reliability, industrial
statistics, Bayesian statistics, applied probability, and survey methods.
General information: rosa@cimat.mx
Victor Perez Abreu
This workshop will be held from January 29 - February 1, 2008, at the Sandbjerg Estate, Soenderborg, Denmark.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading scientists from mathematics, physics and finance working on the stochastic analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations and the statistical analysis and stochastic modeling of turbulent flows and financial markets, thus providing a common forum for discussion of new and exciting developments in these areas. We believe that these apparently different disciplines are not adequately represented with emphasis on their similarities (and differences) and their potential of mutual development, and we hope that the present workshop will help to fill this gap.
Organizing Committee: Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus) and Juergen Schmiegel (Aarhus).
Confirmed invited speakers are Jochen Cleve (Munich), Rama Cont (Paris), Jose Manuel Corcuera (Barcelona), Fred Espen Benth (Oslo), Andrei Fursikov (Moscow), Martin Greiner (Munich), Sergei Kuksin (Edinburgh), Gunner Larsen (Risř), Sřren Larsen (Risř), Jakob Mann (Risř), Joachim Peinke (Oldenburg), Mark Podolskij (Aarhus), Neil Shephard (Oxford), Michael Soerensen (Copenhagen), Enrique Thomann (Oregon), Steen Thorbjoernsen (Aarhus), Edward C. Waymire (Oregon), Huaizhong Zhao (Loughborough).
Contact Information: Oddbjorg Wethelund. Tel +45 8942 3515, e-mail: oddbjorg@imf.au.dk
Oddbjorg Wethelund
This workshop will be held from July 24-26, 2008, at the University of
Vienna. The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
current trends and challenging problems in model selection and related shrinkage
methods. Invited speakers include Yannick Baraud
(Université de Nice Sophia-Antipoli), Rudy Beran (UC Davis), Ed George (The
Wharton School), Patrik Guggenberger (UCLA), Ching-Kang Ing (Academia Sinica),
Paul Kabaila (LaTrobe Univ.), Gabor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra Univ.), and Yuhong Yang
(Univ. of Minnesota). Contributed presentations are welcome. For further
details, see
www.univie.ac.at/workshop_modelselection/.
Hannes Leeb
On the occasion of R.Y. Rubinstein’s 70th birthday
This workshop will be held from July 14-18, 2008, at the Sandbjerg Estate, Soenderborg, Denmark. During his career, Reuven Rubinstein has initiated many new discoveries in Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic modelling and optimization, and has inspired numerous researchers to take up research in these fields. This conference is intended to celebrate Professor Rubinstein's 70th birthday by bringing together many of these international researchers in modern Monte Carlo methods. Professor Rubinstein has significantly advanced (or even established) the theory and application of adaptive importance sampling, rare event simulation, randomized optimization, stochastic optimization, sensitivity analysis, the score function method, stochastic counterpart method, and recently the popular cross-entropy method (see http://www.cemethod.org). Currently, he is pursuing important research in optimization and counting problems concerning #P complete problems.
Organizing Committee: Sřren Amussen (Aarhus) (Chair), Peter W. Glynn (Stanford), Jozeph Kreimer (Beer Sheeva), Dirk P. Kroese (Brisbane).
Program Committee: Peter W. Glynn (Stanford) (co-chair), Sandeep Juneja (Mumbai), Joseph Kreimer (Beer Sheva), Dirk P. Kroese (Brisbane) (co-chair), Don McLeish (Waterloo), Georg Pflug (Vienna), Ad Ridder (Amsterdam), Alexander Shapiro (Atlanta), Nahum Shimkin (Haifa), and Assaf Zeevi (New York).
Invited Speakers: Peter W. Glynn (Stanford), Boaz Golany (Haifa), Dirk P. Kroese (Brisbane), Boris Polyak (Moscow), Christian Robert (Paris), Reuven Y. Rubinstein (Haifa), Alexander Shapiro (Atlanta), Robert L. Smith (Ann Arbor).
Key Dates:
• October 1, 2007: Registration for the conference opens. Registrants may choose
to present talks or not, depending on personal preferences.
• February 15, 2008: Closing date for submission of contributed talks.
• March 31, 2008: Notification of acceptance of contributed talks.
Registration fee will be approximately USD 150 per day and covers accommodation and all meals. The Annals of Operations Research will publish a special volume on Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation, Optimization and Counting.
Contact Information: Oddbjorg Wethelund. Tel +45 8942 3515, e-mail: oddbjorg@imf.au.dk
Oddbjorg Werthelund
71st IMS Annual Meeting and 7th Bernoulli Society World
Congress
This conference will be held from July 14-19, 2008, at the National University
of Singapore.
website:
http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/wc2008/index.htm
email: wc2008_general@nus.edu.sg
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee: Louis Chen
Chair of Scientific Program Committee: Ruth Williams
This quadrennial joint meeting is a major worldwide event featuring the
latest scientific developments in the fields of probability and
statistics and their applications. The program will cover a wide range of
topics and will include invited lectures by the following leading specialists:
• Martin Barlow, University of British Columbia (Medallion Lecture)
• Richard Durrett, Cornell University (Wald Lectures)
• Jianqing Fan, Princeton University (Laplace Lecture)
• Alice Guionnet, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lévy Lecture)
• Mark Low, University of Pennsylvania (Medallion Lecture)
• Zhi-Ming Ma, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing (Medallion
Lecture)
• Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago (Neyman Lecture)
• Douglas Nychka, US National Center for Atmospheric Research (Public Lecture)
• Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research (BS-IMS Special Lecture)
• David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge and MRC Biostatistics Unit
(Bernoulli Lecture)
• Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich (Kolmogorov Lecture)
• Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington (Turkey Lecture)
• Wendelin Werner, Université Paris-Sud (BS-IMS Special Lecture)
There will be 33 invited paper sessions highlighting topics of current research interest (http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/wc2008/invitedsessions.htm), as well as many contributed talks and posters.
The venue for the meeting is the National University of Singapore. Singapore is a vibrant, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan city-state that expresses the essence of today’s New Asia. It offers many attractions both cultural and touristic, such as the Esplanade and the Singapore Night Safari.
Some travel assistance is available for students and new researchers (within 2 years of PhD at the date of the meeting) through IMS Laha travel awards (for application information see http://www.imstat.org/awards/laha.html).
Funding is anticipated from the US National Science Foundation for awards to help defray the travel costs of junior researchers, women and members of under-represented minorities, from the United States participating in the Congress (for application information see http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/wc2008/financial.htm).
Some limited funds are also available from the Local Organizing Committee to provide financial support of up to 1,000 SGD each to participants from China, India and Southeast Asia (see the same link above). The IMS Child Care initiative encourages and supports the participation at IMS Annual Meetings (including the Congress) of IMS members having child care responsibilities (for application information see http://www.imstat.org/meetings/childcare.htm).
Ruth Williams
University of Warwick, Monday 31st March to Friday 4th April 2008. This conference revives a tradition of approximately annual UK probability meetings. Its major theme will be the topic of new scaling limits in probability including Schramm-Loewner evolution, random matrices, coagulation and fragmentation, and SPDE.
The highlight of the workshop will be the following four minicourses, each of three lectures:
• Jean Bertoin: Coalescence and stochastic flows of bridges
• Kurt Johansson: Scaling limits in random matrix theory and related models
• Franco Flandoli: SPDEs in fluid dynamics
• Scott Sheffield: Random geometry and the Schramm-Loewner evolution
The scope of the conference will not be limited to these themes: invited speakers will describe work in other recent developments in probability.
For further details and registration see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/ and link to Probability at Warwick.
Wilfrid Kendall