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The IMS co-sponsored meeting ISNI2008 - International Seminar on Nonparametric Inference - was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Vigo (Vigo, Galicia, NW of Spain) from November 5-7, 2008. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Rector of the University of Vigo (picture), and all the scientific sessions took place at the modern, 500 seating Conference Room of the Faculty.
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The topic of the seminar was Nonparametric Statistics. Recent advances in survival analysis, curve estimation, functional data analysis, goodness-of-fit tests, variable selection methods, extremes and regression under shape constraints (among many other topics) were discussed in the seventeen plenary invited talks. Special invited speakers were: Peter Hall (Melbourne), Hans Müller (Davis), Jan Swanepoel (North-West, Potchefstroom, South Africa), Anthony Davison (Lausanne), Lutz Duembgen (Bern), Anestis Antoniadis (Grenoble), Gerda Claeskens (Leuven), Natalie Neumeyer (Hamburg) and a young local researcher, Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández (Vigo). In addition, 31 contributed papers were presented. Almost one hundred people attended the seminar.
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the Monterreal Fortress in Baiona |
The nice, friendly atmosphere created at the Faculty of Economics during both the scientific sessions and the lunch and coffee breaks helped to create an atmosphere of friendly collaboration. Moreover, the social program allowed the participants to visit enjoyable local monuments and natural areas such as the Pazo Quiñones de León at Castrelos Park where an Official Reception by the Mayor of the town took place, and the Monterreal Fortress in Baiona, that hosted the Conference Dinner on Friday evening (picture).
At the website of the seminar, www.isni2008.com, the proceedings are freely available. This website also lists a number of institutions and organizations that supported the conference, among which the Bernoulli Society. Notably, the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics will dedicate a Special Issue to ISNI2008. The guest editors of this special Issue are Ricardo Cao, Winfried Stute and Philippe Vieu, all of them members of the Scientific Committee of the seminar.
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez
Local organizer
From November 20-22, 2008, the German-Swiss (DFG-SNF) research group FOR916 officially started a series of activities by a conference on "Statistical Regularization and Qualitative Constraints" at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Thirteen invited speakers presented their work in plenary lectures and stimulated numerous discussions. About 100 participants enjoyed the opportunity of sharing their ideas. The opening talk was given by Alexandre Tsybakov (Paris) (picture) and the closing lecture by Ya'akov Ritov (Jerusalem).
The conference will be continued in 2011. For further information, including most of the presentations and a picture gallery see http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/for916/conference
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Conference Committee: Joachim Buhmann, Peter Bühlmann, Lutz Dümbgen, Sara van de Geer, Bernd Fitzenberger, Thorsten Hohage, Enno Mammen, Axel Munk, Martin Schlather, Stefan Sperlich, Jeannette Woerner.
Klaus Frick
