Bulletin39 1

19352010
January/February 2010
Contents
1 Happy Birthday to
2 Members News: Jianqing
Fan;RickDurrett;LukeBornn
3 Annals of Applied Statistics
special section
4 Iowa State Universitys
celebrations
5 Fatal faws found in cancer
research:AOASpaper
6 SAMSIs 201011 programs
7 Dhakas distinguished
visitor remembered
9 Terences Stuf:Statistical
dynastiesandgoldenages
10 Medallion lecture at ENAR
11 IMS meetings
18 Other meetings
23 Employment Opportunities
27 International Calendar of
Statistical Events
31 Information for Advertisers
Volume 39 Issue 1
IMS Bulletin
Happy Birthday toStatistics!
XumingHe,EditorofIMS Bulletin,writesabouttherashofcel-
ebrationsthathasbrokenoutamongstatisticsdepartments:
Ashortwhileago,theStatisticsDepartmentofNorthCarolina
StateUniversitycelebrateditssixtiethanniversaryasone
oftheoldestmajorstatisticsdepartmentsin
theUnitedStates.In2008,IowaState
Universitymarkedtheseventy-ffthanni-
versaryofitsStatisticalLaboratoryin
fact,thecelebrationstookplacein2009,andwehaveanarticle
aboutthemonpage4andtheStatisticsDepartmentatUniversity
ofMichiganmarkeditscalendarforitsfortiethbirthday.Te
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaignisplanningtounveilitsown
symposiumthisyearinobservanceofthetwenty-ffthanniversaryoftheofcial
establishmentofitsStatisticsDepartment.
TereisnoofcialcountonthenumberofStatisticsDepartmentsinthe
UnitedStates,letaloneintheworld.Onethingisclear,however:thenumberof
StatisticsDepartmentsorProgramshasrisensteadilyinthe75yearsoftheIMShis-
tory.Ourprofessionhasbeneftedfromtheforesightsofourprofessionalfounderslike
JerzyNeymanandR.A.Fisher[Fishersvisittothethen-youngStatisticsDepartment
oftheUniversityofDhakainBangladesh,in1954,isrememberedonpage7],andhas
enteredaperiodofmaturityanddiversity.StatisticshasbloomedintheUKandthe
US,butmoreimportantlyitsimpacthasreachedalmosteverypartoftheworld.
PerhapsIamgettingold,tobereminiscingaboutthepastlikethis.ButasIread
throughthearticlescontributedbyourmemberstothisissueoftheBulletin,Ifeel
proudtobeamemberofourprofessiononewithayoung,butrich,history,and
withthevigoranddiversitytomoveforward.JimBergerandJamieNunnellyscover-
ageaboutSAMSIsplansfor201011(seepage6),andJefMorrissintroductiontoa
paperintheAnnals of Applied Statistics thatiscreatingastir(seepage5)arejusttwoof
thepiecesthatIhopeyouwillenjoyreadinginthisholidayseason.
Whateveryouaremarkingatthistimeofyear,wehopeyourcelebrationsare
happy!
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IMS Bulletin Volume 39
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IMS members news
Contact information
IMS Bulletin
Volume 39 Issue 1
January/February 2010
ISSN 1544-1881
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Science (DLSS)
Te Fields Institute in Toronto annually hosts the prestigious Distinguished Lecture Series
in Statistical Science (DLSS). Next years Distinguished Lecturer is JianqingFan, Frederick
L. Moore Professor of Finance, Director of Committee of Statistical Studies, Department
of Operation Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University.
Te lecture series is provisionally scheduled for May, and will be on the topic of Analysis
of Ultrahigh dimensional data: Spurious correlation and sparsity.
Te lecture series has been held annually since 2000, and consists of one general lecture
and one more specialized lecture by an internationally prominent statistical scientist.
Past distinguished lecturers include David Spiegelhalter, Persi Diaconis, Elizabeth
Tompson, Bradley Efron, David Cox, Don Dawson, Donald Fraser, and Peter Hall.
Lehighs Everett Pitcher Lectures
Te next series of Everett Pitcher Lectures
will be held March 22-25, 2010, on the
campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. Te speaker will be Professor
RickDurrett of Cornell University. He will
speak on Tree Faces of Probability, with
three lectures on:
(i) Improbabilities (March 22),
(ii) Life on a random graph (March 23),
and
(iii) Cancer models (March 25).
Durrett, whose research focuses on
probability problems that come from
ecology and genetics, has fathered 40
academic children and written eight books.
He was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences in 2007.
Te lectures, which are free and open
to the public, are held in honor of Everett
Pitcher, who was secretary of the AMS
from 1967 until 1988. Pitcher served in
the mathematics department at Lehigh
University from 1938 until 1978, when
he retired as Distinguished Professor of
Mathematics.
For further information, contact the
Everett Pitcher Lecture Series, Department
of Mathematics, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, 18015; telephone the
department on 610-758-3731; or see the
website: http://www.lehigh.edu/~math/
pitcher.html.
LukeBornn, a PhD student in the
Department of Statistics at the University
of British Columbia, Canada, has won
a Michael Smith Foundation for Health
Research Trainee Award. Competition
for these awards was very keen this year:
only 73 of the 706 applications were
successful. Te program supports highly-
qualifed Masters, PhD and Post-doctoral
trainees, and prepares them for careers as
independent health researchers. Lukes link
to health research stems from his work on
modeling space-time processes, some of
which have been shown to be hazardous to
human health and welfare. His research is
being done with his UBC co-supervisors
ArnaudDoucet and JimZidek.
IMS Awards: nominate or apply
IMS Fellow: nominate by January 31
http://www.imstat.org/awards/fellows.htm
Harry C Carver Medal: nominate by Feb 1
http://www.imstat.org/awards/carver.html
IMS Laha Travel Awards: apply by Feb 1
http://www.imstat.org/awards/laha.html
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contributed talks
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2010 is February1,2010.
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Journal News
IMS co-sponsored meeting produces special section in Annals of Applied Statistics
BrendanMurphyreports:Teanalysisofnetworkdatahasbecomeahighlyactiveareaof
researchactivityinstatistics,computerscienceandmathematics
inrecentyears.Animportantaspectofthestatistical
modelingofnetworkdatainvolvesaccountingforthe
relationshipbetweenentitiesbeingstudied.Inmany
situations,therelationshipbetweenentitiesisof
primaryinterest.
TeWorkshoponStatisticalMethodsforthe
AnalysisofNetworkDatatookplacefromJune
15thto17th,2009atUniversityCollegeDublin.
Teworkshopfocusedonthedevelopmentofstatistical
modelsfortheanalysisofnetworkdataandtheirapplicationindiverseareas.Sometopics
ofparticularinterestincluded:inferentialaspectsofstatisticalnetworkmodels,developing
temporalnetworkmodels,samplingandinferencefromsamplednetworkdataandthe
jointmodelingdatacollectedonentitiesandtherelationshipbetweentheentities.Te
applicationsinthesepresentationswerewide-rangingandincludedbiologicalnetworks,
socialnetworks,onlinecomputernetworks,andnetworksformedfromdocuments.
Overfftyresearchersattendedtheworkshopfromsevendiferentcountries.Te
presentationsincludedseveninvitedtalks,ffteencontributedtalksandeightposters.Te
meetingschedulefacilitatedconsiderablediscussionofthepresentedworkbothformally
andinformally.Temeetingwasassociatedwithplansforaspecialsectiononnetwork
modelingtoappear
ina2010issueof
theIMSjournal,the
Annals of Applied
Statistics.
Severalofthe
paperstoappear
inthespecialissue
werepresented
orallyatthework-
shop.Telistof
papersacceptedfor
thespecialsection
isathttp://www.
imstat.org/aoas/
next_issue.html.
Fulldetailsof
theworkshopare
availablefromthe
meetingwebsite
http://mathsci.
ucd.ie/~brendan/
networks.
Forthcoming:
Special AOAS Section on Network Modeling
ModelingNetworksfromSampledData:
Mark Stephen handcock and kriSta Jennifer Gile
AnalysisofCorrelationsAmongSize,Rate,andDuration
inInternetFlows:
cheolwoo park, felix hernndez-caMpoS, JaMeS Steve
Marron, kevin Jeffay, and f. donelSon SMith
RegularizedMultivariateRegressionforIdentifying
MasterPredictorswithApplicationtoIntegrative
GenomicsStudyofBreastCancer:
Jie penG, Ji zhu, anna BerGaMaSchi, wonShik han, donG-
younG noh, Jonathan pollack, and pei wanG
OptimalExperimentDesigninaFilteringContextwith
ApplicationtoSampledNetworkData:
harSh SinGhal and GeorGe MichailidiS
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Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State University
SongXiChenisProfessorintheDepartmentofStatisticsatIowa
StateUniversity,whichhasrecentlycelebratedaspecialanniver-
sary:
TeDepartmentofStatisticsatIowaStatecelebratedthe75th
AnniversaryoftheStatisticalLaboratoryinJunewithaconfer-
ence.TeStatisticalLaboratorywasestablishedin1933underthe
directionofGeorgeW.Snedecortopromotestatisticalresearchand
consultingthroughouttheUniversity[Editors note: Yes, the 75th
anniversary was actually last year, but it wasnt celebrated until now
because Snedecor Hall was being renovatedsee below].
Graduatedegreeswithaspecializationinstatisticswereawarded
inthe1930s,andthefrstPhDwithamajorinstatisticswas
awardedthroughtheMathematicsDepartmentin1940.Te
DepartmentofStatisticswasfoundedin1947with14faculty
members.Today,theDepartmentconsistsof39facultymembers,
fvecollaborators,eightsupportstaf,about160graduatestudents
and75undergraduatemajors.TeCenterforSurveyStatistics
andMethodologycontinuesasaprominentunitoftheStatistical
Laboratory.TeStatisticalLaboratoryalsosupportsconsulting
andresearchinstatisticalmethodologyforengineering,socialand
behavioralsciences,computationalsciencesanddatavisualization.
Teconferencewasattendedbymorethan200people,manyof
whomwereformerfacultyandstudents.
Tereweresixplenarysessions:
DavidDunson(DukeUniversity)onSparselocalmixturemodel-
ingusingnonparametricBayes;
PeterHall(UniversityofMelbourne)onConceptofdensityfor
functionaldata;
DianeLambert(Google)onStatisticsfromSnedecorandCochran
toGoogle;
VijayNair(UniversityofMichigan)onProcessmonitoring,
anomalydetection,andbeyond:newdirectionsandapplica-
tions;
DeborahNolan(UCBerkeley)onCommunicationinstatistics:
theroleofreproducibleresearchanddynamicdocuments;and
ChrisSkinner(SouthamptonUniversity)onNonresponsein
samplesurveys.
Terewere15invitedsessionsthatcoveredawiderangeof
topicsincludinghigh-dimensionaldata,Bayesianmodelselection,
genomicsandbiologicalapplications,engineeringstatistics,sample
surveysandgeneralstatisticaltheory.
Ahighlightof
thecelebrationwas
there-dedicationof
thenewlyrenovated
SnedecorHall,
whichbrought
muchjoyforthe
faculty,students
andstafwhohad
livedanomadic
existenceforthe
previousyearanda
halfwhileSnedecor
Hallwasrenovated.
Teconferencedinnerwasanoccasiontomarktheretirementof
DeanIsaacsonwhohasbeenatISUfor41yearsandhadbeenthe
HeadoftheDepartmentofStatisticsandDirectoroftheStatistical
Laboratoryfor18years.
Current and former faculty and students were among more than 200 people who celebrated 75 years of Statistics at Iowa State University
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the re-dedication of
Snedecor Hall. Pictured, left to right, are Ken Koehler
(current Chair of the Department of Statistics and
Director of the Statistical Laboratory); Dean Isaacson
and Herbert A. David (previous Chairs & Directors); and
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Members Discoveries: Fatal faws in cancer research
JefreyMorris,AssociateProfessoratThe
UniversityofTexasMDAndersonCancer
Center,reportsonthesubstantialimpact
ofapaperintheAnnals of Applied Statistics:
ArecentarticlepublishedinTe Annals
of Applied Statistics (AOAS)bytwoMD
AndersonresearchersKeithBaggerlyand
KevinCoombesdissectsresultsfroma
highly-infuentialseriesofmedicalpapers
involvinggenomics-drivenpersonalizedcan-
certherapy,andoutlinesaseriesofsimple
yetfatalfawsthatraisesseriousquestions
abouttheveracityoftheoriginalresults.
Havingimmediateandstrongimpact,this
paper,alongwithrelatedwork,isproviding
theimpetusfornewstandardsofreproduc-
ibilityinscientifcresearch.
Inlate2006,investigatorsatDuke
UniversityledbyAnilPottiandJoseph
Nevinsdevelopedgenomicsignaturesto
predictsensitivity/resistancetoparticular
chemotherapeuticagents.Teybuilt
thesesignaturesusingpublicly-available
microarrayandpreclinicalchemo-sensitivity
dataforadiverseseriesofcancercelllines,
theNCI60,andthenvalidatedthesesig-
naturesusingotherpublicly-availablearray
datasetsfrompatientswithknownclinical
responses.Teyreportedstrikingsuccess
usingthisapproachwithseveralcommon
chemotherapeuticagents,publishingover
15papersinthepast3yearsonthistopic,
whichledtoclinicaltrialstotestthis
approachtopersonalizedcancertherapy.
BaggerlyandCoombessetoutto
reproducetheauthorsresultsinorderto
helpinvestigatorsatMDAndersonuse
theapproach.However,poordocumenta-
tionturnedreproductionintopost-facto
reconstruction,aprocedurethathascome
tobeknownasforensicbiostatistics.Te
AOASpaperpresentsresultsfromfourof
thesestudies,revealingerrorsincluding
scramblingofgeneandgroup(sensitive/
resistant)labels,designconfounding,
inclusionofgenesofunknownorigin,and
fgureduplication.Onecommonerroris
theswappingofsensitive/resistantlabels
inthetrainingdata,leadingtosignatures
suggestingatherapytothepatientsleast
likelytobeneftfromit.Terearealso
persistentirregularitiesintestsample
labeling,withsomesamplesmislabeledand
othersusedmultipletimesinvalidation,
whichleadstoinaccuratereportsofthe
methodsperformance.Onestudyincludes
fourkeysignaturegeneswhoseoriginsare
unknown;theywerenotproducedbytheir
software,andtwoofthemwerenotevenon
themicroarraysusedinthetrainingdata.
Onefgurediscussedinarecentpublication
duplicatesafgurefromanearlierpublica-
tiondealingwithacompletelydiferent
treatment.BaggerlyandCoombesreport
thatwhentheyfollowedtheDukeresearch-
ersapproachwiththeseerrorscorrected,
theyobtainedresultsnobetterthanchance.
TeAOASinvitedtheDukeresearchers
torespondinwriting,buttheydeclined,
indicatingthattheyintendedtopublish
theirownexplanationinaseparatepeer-
reviewedpublication.Inaninterviewwith
Te Cancer Letter (www.cancerletter.com,
October2,2009),PottiandNevinssug-
gestedtheerrorswereminor,andthattheir
methodworks,citingthattheirresultshave
beenindependentlyvalidatedbyresearchers
attheEuropeanOrganizationforResearch
andTreatmentofCancer(EORTC)[Lancet
Oncology,2007,8(12),10711078],noting,
Datawasmadeavailabletous,blinded.
Allwegotwasthegeneexpressiondata.
Weranthepredictionsandsentitbackto
theEORTCinvestigators.Teytookthe
results,analyzeditinthecontextofclinical
responses.However,MauroDelorenzi,
headoftheEuropeanbioinformaticsgroup,
disputesthisassertion,statingthatthe
studywas,infact,notblinded,andthat
theEuropeangroupwouldnotbeableto
reproducetheirresultswiththeinforma-
tiongiven(Te Cancer Letter,October23,
2009).AsBaggerlynotesinanaccompany-
ingletter,therehasstillnotbeenany
documentedindependentvalidationofthe
Dukeresearchersresults.
TewarninginBaggerlyandCoombes
paperisthatclinicaltrialsbeingconducted
werebasedonquestionablescientifc
results,andthatthesetrialscouldbeput-
tingpatientsatriskbyexposingthemto
potentiallyinefectivetreatments.Shortly
afterpublicationoftheAnnals of Applied
Statistics paper,threeDukeUniversityclini-
caltrialsbasedonthequestionableresults
weresuspended,afourthtrialconductedat
MoftCancerCenterwasterminated(Te
Cancer Letter,October9and23,2009),
andapanelofoutsideexpertshasbeen
assembledbyDukeUniversitytoinvestigate
thisresearchandtheoriginalresults.
Mostoftheerrorsdiscoveredinthis
studyaresimpleandeasilyaddressable,but
havefar-reachingimplications.Discovering
theerrorsisnotsimple.Teproblemisthat
methodsarenotdocumentedinsufcient
detailforthepresentedresultstoberepro-
duced,andthisproblemisqualitatively
worseforcomplexstudiesinvolvingvolumi-
nousdata.BaggerlyandCoombesconclude
thatahigherlevelofdocumentationshould
berequiredforhigh-throughputstudies.
Tereisagrowingawarenessofthisissuein
biomedicalresearch,andthestatisticalcom-
munityisleadingtheway.Citingprevious
forensicbioinformaticswork,thejournal
Biostatistics[Peng2009,10(3):405408]
hasappointedanassociateeditorfor
reproducibility,whowillevaluateandmark
eachpublishedpaperbasedonwhether
thedataandcodearepubliclyavailable,
andtheresultsarereproducible,usingthe
documentationprovided.Asmorejournals
establishsuchpolicies,thereproducibility
ofresearchshouldimprove.
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SAMSI: Dynamicnewprogramsfor201011
JimBerger,DirectorofSAMSI,andJamie
Nunnelly,SAMSIsCommunications
Director,write:
TeStatisticalandAppliedMathematical
SciencesInstitute(SAMSI)isoperatingtwo
researchprogramsthisyearwitharecord
numberofparticipants.Ayearago,we
neverimaginedthatwemightrunoutof
spaceinournewwingoftheNISSbuild-
ing,butthankstotheNationalScience
Foundation(NSF)appropriatingsome
moneysothatwecoulddoublethenumber
ofourpostdoctoralfellowsthisyear,and
thankstotherecordnumberofvisitors
participatinginourtwoprogramsthisyear,
wearecompletelyfull.Itisacozyandvery
excitingresearchatmosphere!
TeStochasticDynamicsandthe
Space-TimeAnalysisforEnvironmental
Mapping,EpidemiologyandClimate
Changeprogramsarealreadywellunder-
way.Wehave14researchworkinggroups
meetingeachweek,alongwithmany
workshopsandclasses.Youwillfndplenty
ofactivitymostanydayoftheweekthat
youmightcometovisitus!
SAMSIs201011programsagain
promisetobesell-outs.TeAnalysisof
ObjectOrientedDataprogramgeneralizes
functionaldataanalysis(FDA)tothe
moregeneralconceptofobjectsasdata
points;examplesincludeimages,shapesof
objectsin3D,pointsonamanifold,tree
structuredobjects,andevenvarioustypes
ofmovies.Programleadersinclude:Hans-
GeorgMller(Davis),Jane-LingWang
(Davis),IanDryden(SouthCarolina),and
JimRamsay(McGill),alongwithLocal
CoordinatorSteveMarron(UNC).
Teotheryear-longresearchprogram
isComplexNetworks.Tisprogramwill
focusontheemergingareaofnetworksci-
ence,ahighlyinterdisciplinaryfeldthatis
characterizedbyinteractionsattheinterface
ofappliedmathematics,statistics,computer
science,andstatisticalphysics,aswellas
thoseareaswithnetwork-orientedthrustsin
biology,computernetworks,engineering,
andthesocialsciences.Programleaders
include:EricKolaczyk(BostonUniversity)
andAlexVespignani(IndianaUniversity),
withLocalCoordinatorsAlunLloyd
(NorthCarolinaStateUniversity)andPeter
Mucha(UniversityofNorthCarolina).
TeScientifcAdvisoryCommitteeis
comprisedof:PierreDegond(Institutde
MathmatiquesdeToulouse),Stephen
Fienberg(CarnegieMellonUniversity),and
MartinaMorris(UniversityofWashington).
DuringJuly1223,2010,wewill
alsobeholdingtheSummerProgram
onSemiparametricBayesianInference:
ApplicationsinPharmacokineticsand
Pharmacodynamics,beingledbyGary
RosnerandPeterMueller,bothfromM.D.
AndersonCancerCenter.Tesummer
programsareanexcitedlyintensetwo-week
immersioninaparticulararea,andare
quiteanexperience!
Wehopeyouwillconsiderjoiningus
foroneoftheseprogramsnextyear.Tofnd
outmoreinformationortoapplyforone
oftheprogramsorthemanyworkshops
associatedwiththeprograms,goto:www.
samsi.infoandclickontheprogramspage
ortheworkshopspage.
OurEducationandOutreachprogram
isveryactiveaswell.Inadditiontothe
UndergraduateWorkshopsheldinthe
Fall,WinterandSpring,wehavea10-day
industrialresearchprogramforgraduate
studentsinJuly,inconjunctionwithNC
StateUniversitysCenterforResearchin
ScientifcComputation.
Manyofourparticipantsinthe
undergraduateworkshopsandotherregular
SAMSIworkshopsstayconnectedwitheach
otherviaoursocialnetworkingoutlets.We
haveaFacebookgroupforstudentsaswell
asaFacebookpageforanySAMSIfans.We
alsohaveaTwitteraccount:@NISSSAMSI.
Ifyouprefer,youcanjoinedourLinkedIn
grouptogetupdatesandreadabout
upcomingworkshops.
ManyofyouknowthatIamleaving
mypostasdirectorofSAMSIatendof
June,2010.Tesearchformyreplacement
iswellunderwayandwehopetosendinan
announcementinthenextcouplemonths
introducingthenewdirector!
ThelocationfortheIMS2014AnnualMeetinghasjust
beenfnalizedbutwhere?Turntopage14tofndout!
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University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
TeUniversityOfDhakainBangladeshisoneoftheoldestuniversitiesinAsia,anditsstatisticsdepartment,foundedin1950,isamong
theoldestintheworld.
MirMasoomAli(picturedleft),GeorgeandFrancesBallDistinguishedProfessorofStatisticsEmeritus,Ball
StateUniversity,wasayoungsecond-yearundergraduatestudenttherein1954whenthefedglingdepartment
receivedaneminentvisitor.Hesentusthisphoto(below)takenontheoccasionofSirR.A.Fishersvisit.He
explained,Iamseatedonachair,secondfromright,andNationalProfessorQaziMotaharHusain(seatedtothe
leftofFisher,inlonggreybeard)isthefounderofthestatisticsdepartment.Fisherwasanexternalexaminerof
HusainsPhDthesisandHusainwasagreatandclosefriendofP.C.Mahalanobis.ProfessorHusainwasaninter-
nationalchessplayerandwasaveryfamouswriterinwhatisnowBangladesh.HewentontofoundtheInstitute
ofStatisticalResearchandTraining(ISRT),aseparateentityatDhakaUniversityin1964.Hereceivedthe
highestnationalawardsfromboththeerstwhilePakistanandpresent-dayBangladesh,andwasnamedaNational
Professor,anhonorreservedforafewoutstandingprofessors.
Accordingtoitsdepartmentalhomepage,http://www.univdhaka.edu/department/index.php?bodyid=STA,thestatisticsdepartmentnow
oferscoursesintheoreticalandappliedstatisticsatBSc,MSc,M.Phil.andPhDlevel.Moreover,asubstantialnumberofstudentsfrom
otherdepartmentsoftheuniversitytakeminorcoursesinStatisticseachyear.Terearecurrentlyabout900studentsinthedepartment,
includingtheminorstudentsofotherhonourssubjects.
Tereissomemorebackgroundinfor-
mationonthedepartmentswebsite,on
theearlyhistoryofstatisticsinDhakaand
moregenerally,intheIndiansub-continent.
Duringthe1930s,statisticswasoneofthe
newestdisciplinesinthesubcontinent.Te
IndianStatisticalInstitute(ISI),registered
in1932,wasthefrstorganizationinthe
regiontofosterthegrowthofstatisticsby
trainingpeopleformachinecalculationand
givinginstructioninthetheoreticalaspects
ofstatisticalmethodsincommonuse.In
193738,ProfessorQ.M.Husainwassent
totheISIbyDhakaUniversity,tostudy
statisticsunderProfessorP.C.Mahalanobis,
withtherecommendationofthephysicist,
ProfessorS.N.Bose.Husainobtainedhis
DiplomainStatisticsfromISIin1938.
Sostatisticswasfrstintroducedinto
theDhakaUniversitycurriculuminthe
academicsession193839initiallyfor
BScagriculturestudents,butbythemid-
1940sasasubjectuptoMasterslevel.
TeDepartmentwasfoundedunderDr
Husainin1950,havinggrownoutofthe
MathematicsDepartment.Fishersvisit
justfouryearslatermusthavebeenagreat
encouragementtoeveryoneinvolved.
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T
hecountriesthatdominatedthe
statisticsIlearnedasanunder-
graduatewereGreatBritain,India,
andtheUSA.TepresenceofIndiainthis
listinitiallypuzzledme.WhyIndia,and
notChina,France,GermanyortheSoviet
Union,Iwondered.AtextIused,andliked
alot,atthattimewasAdvanced Statistical
Methods in Biometric Research,byayoung
IndianstatisticiannamedC.Radhakrishna
Rao.Itbalancedtheoryandapplication
inawaythatIcouldenjoy:Fisherian,but
comprehensible.Ifitgavetheimpression
thatmuchofstatisticsconcernedskulls,
bonesandracesanthropometrythatwas
becauseintheolddayspeopletookmea-
surementsonlotsofthesethings,anddis-
cussedquestionsofrace.Muchimportant
statisticsseemstohavebeeninspiredby
suchmatters.(IlaterlearnedthatRaowent
fromCalcuttatoCambridge,England,in
thelate1940stoworkontheanalysisofa
seriesofhumanskeletonsexcavatedinJebel
MoyainSudan.)
InduecourseIcametounderstand
theanswertowhyIndia?Tereasonwas
P.C.Mahalanobis.Duringthe1920she
hadbuiltupaStatisticalLaboratorywithin
hisroomasProfessorofPhysicsatthe
PresidencyCollegeofCalcutta,andin1931
hefoundedtheIndianStatisticalInstitute
(ISI).Inanyareaofscience,theachieve-
mentsofindividuals,researchgroups,
departments,institutionsandcountries
waxandwane.Almostbydefnition,the
oneswenoticearetheoutliers,andits
hardforoutlierstoproducenewoutliers,
andforthisprocesstocontinue,unto
thenthgeneration.ButtheISIquickly
wenttothetop,andhasremainedthere
foraremarkablylongtimeforaperiod
probablyunequalledinourdiscipline.
TefrstdecadeoftheISIsawR.C.Bose
doingoutstandingresearchonexperimental
design(workingonGaloisfelds,notin
paddyfelds),S.N.Roydoingsuperb
multivariateanalysis,andmanyothers,
doinggreatwork,includingMahalanobis
himself,studyinghisdistance.Te1940s
wereunarguablyC.R.Raos.Hisfamous
1945paper,whichcontainedtheCramr-
Raoinequality,theRao-Blackwelltheorem,
andabeginningtothediferentialgeometry
ofparameterspaces,wouldguaranteethat,
evenhadhedonenothingelsebutthere
wasmuchelse.Te1950ssawD.Basu,
RaosfrstPhDstudent,provehisbeautiful
theoremandsoithascontinued.
IvebeenmeetingtheISIallmylife.
AftermyexposuretoRaosbook,Iturned
awayfromstatisticstomathematics.
Notlongintothisphaseofmylife,I
stumbledacrosstheamazingquartet:V.S.
Varadarajan,K.R.Parthasarathy,S.R.S.
Varadhan,andR.RangaRao.Tefrst
threewerestudentsofC.R.RaoattheISI,
whilethefourthwasatnearbyCalcutta
University.Probabilityinphysics,onmetric
spaces,overLiegroups,ergodictheory,
grouprepresentations,functionalanalysis,
andmuchmore;thereseemedtobeno
limittowhatcouldbedoneinthename
ofstatisticsinCalcutta.Tereweremany
otheroutstandingpeople,ofcourse,in
additiontothefournamedabove.Tis
periodofitshistoryhasbeendubbedthe
GoldenAgeofISI,andthatseemsright,
apartfromthefactthatthiscondemnsall
futureagestolessermetalstatus.Amove
fromAustraliatotheUKgavemethe
opportunitytolearnfromKRPfrst-hand,
althoughIdidntmanagetogetintohis
researchareaquicklyenoughtodoinde-
pendentworkbeforehereturnedtoIndia.
ButD.Basuwascloseby,awayfromthe
ISIforafewyears,andheledmebackinto
statistics.Healsogotmeinvitedtogivea
courseattheISI,sothatIhadtheopportu-
nitytoliveandworkinthisunusualplace,
atrulywonderfulexperience.Tatwasover
30yearsago,butImquiteexcitedtobe
returningtoKolkatainacoupleofweeks.
WhatisthesecretoftheISIssuccess?
In1961,withhelpfromR.A.Fisher,they
adoptedthemottoUnityinDiversity,
andthebanyantreeasacrest.(Buddhais
thoughttohaveachievedenlightenment
whilesittingunderthistree.)Bythenthe
Institutewasauniversity,withpeople
studyingeconomics,socialscience,geology,
humangenetics,cropscience,industrial
qualitycontrol,andmuchmore,withstatis-
ticsastheconnectingtheme.Mathematics,
theoreticalandappliedstatistics,and
samplesurveysfourished.Itseemedthat
peoplecouldcarryoutwhateverresearch
theywished,thoughnotinallcases,asone
distinguishedmemberofourprofession
foundtohisdisappointment.
TesedaysImdoingresearchin
cancergenomics,andaminvolvedinthe
InternationalCancerGenomeConsortium.
Indiaisoneoftheparticipatingnations,
withastudyoftumorsoftheoralcavity.
WhichIndianinstitutionisleadingthat
research?TeISI,ofcourse!
Happy90thbirthdayyear,C.R.Rao.
Terences Stuf: Statistical Dynasties & Golden Ages
As he wrote this, Terry
Speed was about to
revisit Kolkata, which
turned his thoughts to
the remarkable success
of statistics in India, and
the 90th birthday of a
former IMS president.
The banyan tree,
together with the
motto Unity in
Diversity, is pic-
tured in the logo
for the Indian Sta-
tistical Institute.
The Great Banyan
Tree in the botanic
gardens in Kol-
kata is the largest
in Asia, possibly
in the world.
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IMS Medallion Lecture at ENAR/IMS meeting
Overthepastdecade,therehasbeenanincreasingfocus,inahost
ofdiseaseanddisorderareas,onnotonlytraditionaldevelopment
andevaluationofnewinterventionsbutonelucidatingmore
broadlythebestwaystousebothnewandexistingtreatments.
Terecentemphasisbypolicy-makersoncomparativeefective-
nessresearchhasonlyheightenedthisinterest.Statisticians,
mathematicians,andotherquantitativescientistshavedeveloped
variousmethodologicalapproachesthatcaninformandguide
thisendeavor,particularlyinthecontextofdesigningstrategies
forbestusingavailabletreatmentoptionsovertheentirecourse
ofadiseaseordisorder.Adoptingtheperspectivethattreatment
ofchronicdiseasesanddisordersreallyinvolvesaseriesofthera-
peuticdecisionsovertime,eachofwhichshouldideallybemade
adaptivelybasedontheevolvinghealthstatusofthepatient,holds
thepromiseofdevelopingtreatmentregimensthatinthissense
movetowardindividualizingtreatmenttothepatient,thereby
improvinghealthoutcomes.Multidisciplinarycollaborations
involvingdisease/disorderareaspecialists,statisticians,andother
quantitativescientiststoexploitthesemethodologicaladvancesare
essentialifthisgoalistobeachieved.Iamfortunatetobeinvolved
inseveralcollaborativeresearchprojectsfocusedondevelopment
ofsuchadaptivetreatmentstrategiesinareasrangingfromHIV
infectiontoalcoholabusetoorgantransplantation.Iwilldescribe
theseexcitingresearchprojectsandthestatisticalandmathematical
methodsthatarebeingbroughttobeartoaddressthischallenge.
MarieDavidianisWilliamNealReynoldsProfessorofStatisticsandDirectoroftheCenterforQuantitative
SciencesinBiomedicineatNorthCarolinaStateUniversity.Shereceivedbachelorsandmastersdegreesin
appliedmathematicsin1980and1981fromtheUniversityofVirginiaandreceivedaPhDinstatisticsfromthe
UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHillin1987underthedirectionofRaymondJ.Carroll.Shejoinedthe
DepartmentofStatisticsatNorthCarolinaStateUniversityin1987andreturnedin1996afterservingonthe
facultyintheDepartmentofBiostatisticsatHarvardSchoolofPublicHealthfrom199496.Marieisanelected
FellowofIMSaswellasASAandAAAS,andisanelectedmemberoftheInternationalStatisticalInstitute(ISI).
ShehasservedasCoordinatingandExecutiveEditorofBiometrics,aschairoftheNationalInstitutesofHealthBiostatisticalMethodsand
ResearchDesign(BMRD)studysection,ontheInternationalBiometricSociety(IBS)andIMSCouncils,andasENARpresident.Sheisthe
recipientoftheG.W.SnedecorAward,theJanetL.NorwoodAwardforOutstandingAchievementbyaWomanintheStatisticalSciences,
theASAAwardforOutstandingStatisticalApplication,andseveraldistinguishedlectureships.
IMSco-sponsoredmeeting
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IMS Annual Meeting:
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JSM: Boston,MA,
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IMS meetings around the world
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annualmeetingforresearchersworkinginthefeldofStochastic
Processes.
Teconferencecoversawiderangeofactiveresearchareas,in
particularfeaturing20invitedplenarylecturespresentedbyleading
specialists.Inaddition,therewillbealargevarietyofspecialses-
sions,consistingofthreetalkseach,andcontributedsessions.
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Operations Research, Computer Science and Allied Areas
January 48, 2010
Visakhapatnam, India
AbstractDeadline:August31,2009
w http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html
Teobjectiveofthisconferenceistoassessrecentdevelopmentsin
thefeldsofstatistics,probabilityandcomputersciencetodiscuss
futuredirectionsintermsoftheory,practiceandeducation.One
oftheprimarygoalsistofosterinternationalcollaborationinthese
relatedareasthroughtheexchangeofideasandexperiencesto
enhanceothertechnologytransferactivities.Reformsneededinsta-
tisticaleducationandtraininginordertomeetthechangingneeds
oftheindustryandgovernmentwhichreceivespecialattention.
Teprogramoftheconferencewillincludeseveralinvitedsessions,
andcontributedsessionsaswellasworkshops.Englishistheofcial
languageforallconferencematerialsandpresentations.Teconfer-
encewillbeheldatAndhraUniversityinVisakhapatnam.
Teconferencewillfeaturetopicsincluding:appliedprobabil-
ity;randomwalks;Bayesinference;biostatisticsandbioinformatics;
communicationnetworksandsecurity;datamining;designof
experiments;directionaldataanalysis;distributiontheory;econo-
metrics;MarkovprocessesandMarkovdecisiontheory;math-
ematicalfnance;multivariateanalysis;nonparametricinference;
operationsresearch,queuesandinventories;patternrecognition
andimageprocessing;probabilitytheory;limittheorems;statistical
education;statisticalqualitycontrolandreliability;stochasticmod-
eling;stochasticprocesses,stochasticcalculusandcontrol;survey
sampling;survivalanalysis;timeseriesanalysis;andrelatedareas.
Workshop:onJanuary3,2010,atthebeginningoftheconfer-
encetherewillbeaonedaysatelliteworkshoponDistribution
TeoryandDirectionalDataAnalysis.
PlenarySessionsandSpeakers: Statistics:Prof.B.L.S.Prakasa
Rao(UniversityofHyderabad,India);Probability:Prof.Srinivasa
Varadhan(CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences,USA);
Biostatistics:Dr.JosephHeyse(VicePresident-Biostatistics,Merck
ResearchLabs,USA).SpecialSession:Aspecialsessionwillbe
organizedtohonorProfC.R.Rao,ProfS.RaoJammalamadaka
andProf.J.Lakshminarayana,forservicesrenderedtoAndhra
University.
Registration:Allparticipantsareencouragedtopre-registerto
secureaguaranteedplaceattheConference.Seethewebsitefor
details.
Stochastic Methods in Game Theory
September 816, 2010
Erice, Sicily, Italy
w http://space.luiss.it/stochastic-workshop/
IMSRepresentativeonProgramCommittees:MarcoScarsini
Manydecisionproblemsinvolveelementsofuncertaintyandof
strategy.Mostoftenthetwoelementscannotbeeasilydisentangled.
Teaimofthisworkshopistoexamineseveralaspectsofthe
interactionbetweenstrategyandstochastics.Variousgametheoretic
modelswillbepresented,wherestochasticelementsareparticularly
relevanteitherintheformulationofthemodelitselforinthe
computationofitssolutions.
Formoreinformationpleasesendanemailtoerice2010@luiss.it
Statistical ScienceMaking a Diference
June 34, 2010
University of Wisconsin, Madison
w http://www.stat.wisc.edu/Department/50th_Anniversary/50th.html
e 50th@stat.wisc.edu
IMSRepresentativesonProgramCommittees:RichJohnson,Kjell
Doksum,GraceWahba
TeDepartmentofStatistics,incollaborationwiththelarger
statisticscommunityoncampusattheUniversityofWisconsin
Madison,isplanningaseriesofeventstocelebratethe50th
anniversaryofitsfoundinganditsachievementsinmakingdifer-
encesinstatisticsandsciencesthroughboththeory/methodsand
applications/practice.
Temaineventisthescientifcconferencewithatitle
StatisticalScienceMakingaDiferencetobeheldduringJune
34,2010.Teconferencewillhighlightmajoradvancesand
emergingtopicsinstatisticalscienceduringthelast25yearsorso
sincethe25thanniversaryoftheDepartmentofStatisticsin1985.
Terewillbesixsessions,andeach90-minutesessionwith
athemewillfeaturealeadinginvitedspeakerfollowedbyother
invitedandcontributedspeakers.Eachsessionwillhaveuptofour
speakers.Duringthemorningandafternoonbreaks,therewillalso
bethreecontributedpostersessions.
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Followinguponthesuccessofthefrstthreejointinternational
meetingsofIMS(InstituteofMathematicalStatistics)andISBA
(InternationalSocietyforBayesianAnalysis)heldinIslaVerde,
PuertoRico,andBormio,Italy,thefourthsuchjointmeetingwill
beheldatTeCanyonsinParkCity,Utah,USAonJanuary57,
2011.TeunifyingthemeoftheconferencewillbeMCMCandits
impactonthepracticeofstatisticalscienceindiverseareas,suchas
genetics,genomics,environmentalhealth,epidemiology,andsoon.
However,sincethisisajointmeetingoftwodiverseorganizations,
talksonawidevarietyoftopics(bothBayesianandnon-Bayesian)
willbepresented.
Eachdaywillbeginwitha50-minutetalkbyaplenaryspeaker,
immediatelyfollowedbyaninvitedsession,thenlunch,andthen
anafternoonbreak(whereskiing/snowboardingwillbeamongthe
options).Followingthebreakwillbeanotherinvitedsession,then
dinnerandposters;inshort,Valenciastylewithski/spatime
replacingtheusualbeachtime.Terewillalsobeapre-conference
satellitemeetingonadaptiveandotheradvancedMCMCmeth-
odsonJanuary34,withProf.ChristianRobertagainservingas
leadorganizer(detailstofollow).
Weareveryfortunatetohavecommitmentsthefollowingthree
outstandingplenaryspeakers:
Prof.NickyBest,ImperialCollegeLondonandSt.MarysHospital
Prof.MichaelNewton,UniversityofWisconsin
Prof.JefreyRosenthal,UniversityofToronto
Inaddition,themembersoftheprogramcommittee(seebelow)
haveassembledaninvitedprogramthatisasattractiveasthecon-
ferencevenue,withsessionson:
Modeling Dependence for High-Troughput Data
Advances in MCMC for Genomics
Bayesian versus Frequentist Approaches in Observational Studies
Environmental Health Statistics
MCMC for Computationally-Intensive Inverse Problems
TemeetingwilltakeplaceattheconferencecenteratTe
Canyons,locatedapproximately40minutesfromSaltLakeCity
(SLC)airportandreadilyaccessiblebypublictransport.Teairport
isahubforDeltaAirlines,nowtheworldsbiggestcommercialair
carrier.
Weanticipateobtaininggrantsupportfromvariousfederal
sourcestohelpsubsidizethecostofattendingMCMSkiIIIfor
First Announcement: Fourth International IMS/ISBA Joint Meeting
MCMSki III: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Statistical Science
January 57, 2011
Park City, Utah, USA (The Canyons)
w http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html
younginvestigators(personswithin5years
ofreceivingPhD)presentingtalksorpost-
ersatthemeeting.Inaddition,ISBAhas
committedsupportforyoungresearchers,
withpreferencetosenior/advancedstudents
activeinresearch,andpreferentiallyto
studentsfromeconomicallydisadvantaged
countries.
Furtherdetails,includingregistration
fees,hotelaccommodation,andsocial
events,areavailablefromtheofcial
conferencewebsite,http://madison.byu.edu/
mcmski/index.html
Inparticular,conferenceregistrationwill
beavailableonlinestartinginDecember,
2009throughalinkfromoursitetoan
easy-to-usesitemaintainedbytheIMS.All
paperspresentedattheconference(either
invitedorcontributed)willbeeligiblefor
publicationintheofcialjournalofISBA,
Bayesian Analysis,followingarefereeing
process;seeba.stat.cmu.edufordetails.
ProgramCommittee:
BradCarlin,UniversityofMinnesota
(ConferenceCo-chair)
AntoniettaMira,UniversityofInsubria
(ConferenceCo-chair)
ShaneReese,BrighamYoungUniversity
(LocalArrangementsChair)
CleliaDiSerio,UniversitVita-SaluteSan
Rafaele
MontserratFuentes,NorthCarolinaState
University
SanderGreenland,UniversityofCalifornia,
LosAngeles
DavidHigdon,LosAlamosNational
Laboratory
PeterMller,MDAndersonCancerCenter
GiovanniParmigiani,HarvardUniversity
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Announcements and Calls for Papers
Sparse structures: statistical theory and practice
Research workshop
June 1618, 2010
Bristol, UK
w http://www.sustain.bris.ac.uk/ws-sparsity/
Oneofthemostchallengingproblemsinmodernstatisticsisto
fndefectivemethodsfortheanalysisofcomplexmulti-dimen-
sionaldata.Sparsityhasbeenemergingasamajortoolforhandling
statisticalproblemsinhighdimensions.
Teaimofthisworkshopistobringtogethertheoryand
practiceinmodellinghigh-dimensionaldata;wehopetoencourage
genuineinteractionbetweenproponentsofdiferentapproaches.
Teworkshopwillfeatureabout12invitedspeakers,anda
contributedandposterprogramme.
InvitedSpeakers:
ChristopheAmbroise(CNRS,Paris)
FrancoisCaron(Bordeaux)
SaravandeGeer(Zurich)
DavidMadigan(Columbia)
NicolaiMeinshausen(Oxford)
SylviaRichardson(Imperial)
YaacovRitov(Jerusalem)
BernardSilverman(Oxford)
RobTibshirani(Stanford)*
MikeTipping(consultant)*
AlexandreTsybakov(ParisVI)
MartinWainwright(Berkeley)
(*indicatesnotyetaccepted)
Tenumberofparticipantswecanacceptislimited,andweask
youtowritetousinadvanceifyouwishtoattend.Wewillhave
somelimitedfundsforpartialsupportofexpensesforjunior
researchers(graduatestudents,andresearcherswithin3yearsof
receivingtheirPh.D.degree).Informationaboutparticipationand
support,includingdeadlines,andallotherdetailsaboutthework-
shopcanbefoundathttp://www.sustain.bris.ac.uk/ws-sparsity/.
Workshop on Industry & Price Forecasting (WIPFOR)
June 34, 2010
Clamart, near Paris, France
whttp://www.wipfor.org
ewipfor@edf.fr
Tisinternationalworkshop,organizedbyTeOptimization
SimulationRisksandStatisticsDepartmentofEDFsResearch&
DevelopmentDivisionwillbeheldonJune34,2010nearParis,
France.
Tisworkshopwillfocusontimeseriesforecasttechniques
usingnon-stationarysignalsandtouncertaindecisionmaking
chainapplications.Butthesubjectspresentedinthisworkshopwill
coverawiderangeofindustries,suchasenergy,fnance,transporta-
tionandecology.
Tepurposeistobringtogetheracademicsandindustry
professionalstosharediferentexperiencesanddiscussfuturetrends
relatedtothisarea.Boththeoreticalandpracticalissueswillbe
considered.
ProgramCommittee:AnestisAntoniadis,UniversitJ.Fourier,
Grenoble,France;JianqingFan,PrincetonUniversity,USA;Qiwei
Yao,LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK;GeorgesOppenheim,
UniversitdOrsay,France;XavierBrossat,EDF,France;
TeophanisSapatinas,UniversityofCyprus,Cyprus;Jean-Michel
Poggi,UniversitdOrsay,France;ChristianDerquenne,EDF,
France
OrganizingCommittee:YannickJacquemart,HonoraryChairman;
XavierBrossat,Chairman;SylvieMarsais-Roux,Member
Importantdates:
February15:Abstractsubmissiondeadline
March8:Notifcationofacceptance
March15:Earlyregistration
April30:Lateregistration
http://www.imstat.org/meetings
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2010 International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management (FERM2010)
June 1012, 2010
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
w http://www.fn.ntu.edu.tw/~ferm2010/
e ferm2010.prog@gmail.comorferm2010.local@gmail.com
TisistheffthsymposiumintheFERMseriesstartedin2005.Teserieshasgrowninto
agreatgatheringofacademicresearchersandindustrypractitionerstoexchangestate-of-art
knowledgeanddiscoveriesinfnancialengineeringandriskmanagement,anddiscussthe
recentfnancialcrisis,recentresearchinterestsandcurrentindustrytrends.Itproduces
fusionamongacademicresearchersandindustrypractitionersandprovidesanexcellent
educationalopportunityforthestudents.
FERM2010isco-sponsoredbyPrincetonUniversityandNationalTaiwanUniversity,
co-chairedbyProfessorsJianqingFanandChung-MingKuan.
FERM2010willfeatureseveralkeynotespeakers,includingTimBollerslev,Juanitaand
CliftonKrepsProfessorofEconomicsandFinance,DukeUniversity,JayDweck,Global
HeadofStrategiesandTechnology,InstitutionalSecurities,MorganStanley,andHarrison
Hong,JohnScullyProfessorofEconomicsandFinanceandwinnerofFicherBlackPrize
ofAmericanFinance.Inaddition,ffteeninvitedsessions,ffteencontributedsessionsanda
postersessionareplanned.
Teconferenceprogramcommitteecordiallyinviteyourparticipationoftheconfer-
ence.DeadlineforpapersubmissionisMarch1,2010.
Statistical Methods and Life History
Analysis: A Conference in Celebration of the
Contributions of Jack Kalbfeisch and Jerry
Lawless to the Statistical Sciences
May 2021, 2010
University of Waterloo, Canada
w http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/statconf2010
TeDepartmentofStatisticsandActuarial
ScienceattheUniversityofWaterloois
pleasedtohostaconferencecelebrating
thecontributionsofJackKalbfeischand
JerryLawlesstothestatisticalsciences.Held
onMay20and21,2010,theconference
themeisStatisticalMethodsandLife
HistoryAnalysisanditwillfeaturetalksby
someofthemostprominentresearchersin
statisticsandbiostatistics.
Pleaseseehttp://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/
statconf2010foralistofconfrmedspeakers
andtheregistrationform.Earlyregistration
isrequiredbyMarch15,2010.
2011 SSC Annual Meeting
June 1215, 2011
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
LocalArrangements:HughChipman
(AcadiaUniversity)
Program:ShelleyBull(LunenfeldResearch
Institute)
Summer School in Statistics and Probability
June 512, 2010
McGill University, Canada
w http://www.math.mcgill.ca/probability_and_statistics/school
ASummerSchoolinStatisticsandProbabilitywillbeheldatMcGillUniversityfromJune
5toJune12,2010.Tisevent,whichisorganizedbytheDepartmentofMathematicsand
Statistics,aimstopromoteprobabilityandstatisticsasareasforgraduatestudiesandto
fosterinterestinacareerinthesefelds,eitherinacademia,governmentorindustry.
TeSchoolisdesignedmainlyforfnal-yearundergraduatestudents,NSERCunder-
graduatesummertrainees,andMSc.studentsinstatistics;youngerundergraduatesor
studentsfromotherdisciplinesmayalsoapply.McGillUniversitywillprovidefunding
fortravelandlodgingforsometwentyparticipantsfromacrossCanadaandabroad;upto
tenadditionalstudentscouldbeaccommodatediftheyrequirenofunding.Tescientifc
programwillincludeintroductionstoresearch-levelmathematicalstatistics,probabilistic
methods,biostatistics,statisticsforfnanceandcomputationalmethods.Alivelysocial
programwillalsobeofered.
Formoredetailsandapplication,pleaserefertothewebsite:www.math.mcgill.ca/
probability_and_statistics/schoolorcontacttheorganizersatstat.school@math.mcgill.ca.
Deadlineforapplications:January31,2010.
2012 SSC Annual Meeting
June 36, 2012
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
LocalArrangements:BrianAllen
(UniversityofGuelph)
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Hertogsstraat 1 / 1 Rue Ducale
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Invited speakers
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Hansjoerg Albrecher
Maria de Lourdes Centeno
Monique Jeanblanc
Dilip Madan
Ragnar Norberg
Antoon Pelsser
Eckhard Platen
(Universit de Lausanne)
(Technical University of Lisbon)
(Universit d'Evry Val d'Essonne)
(University of Maryland)
(London School of Economics)
( University)
(University of Technology Sydney)
Philippe Artzner (Universit de Strasbourg)
Maastricht
Daniel Alai, Katrien Antonio, Donatien Hainaut, Johannes Leitner,
, Antonis Papapantoleon Mateusz Maj Robert Salzmann ,
with 13 posters
on Market consistent valuation in insurance
Registration
* Registration is required.
Free of charge for academics
* More info, online registration :
* Deadline for registration:
Sponsors
Organising Committee
Griselda Deelstra - ULB, VUB Ann De Schepper - UA
Pierre Devolder - UCL Jan Dhaene - KULeuven
Wim Schoutens - KULeuven Steven Vanduffel - VUB
Paul Van Goethem - VUB Michle Vanmaele - UGent
David Vyncke - UGent
http://www.AFMathConf.UGent.be
Venue
The Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium
for Science and the Arts
The ESF program
Advanced Mathematical
Methods in Finance
FNRS: Fonds de la
Recherche Scientifique
Research Foundation
Flanders
WOG - Fundamental
Methods & Techniques
in Mathematics
Scientific Committee
Rob Kaas University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Noel Veraverbeke University, Belgium Hasselt
Griselda Deelstra Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Freddy Delbaen ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michel Denuit Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Ernst Eberlein University of Freiburg, Germany
Act uar i al and Fi nanci al Mat hemat i cs Confer ence
Interplay between Finance and Insurance
Febr uar y 04-05, 2010
January 10, 2010
KULeuven - Fortis Chair
Financial & Actuarial
Risk Management
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Third Midwest Statistics Research
Colloquium
March 2627, 2010
The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
USA
w http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/
Midwest/2010/
Tisconferencewillbringtogethermem-
bersofthestatisticalresearchcommunity
fromacrossthemidwesternUnitedStates.
Teconferenceisinclusiveoffrst-rate
theoreticalwork,computationalwork,and
seriousappliedwork.Studentsareespecially
encouragedtoparticipateintheconference.
Participationislimitedbyspace,andsoall
participantsmustregisterontheconfer-
encewebsite,locatedathttp://www.stat.
uchicago.edu/Midwest/2010/
The 24th New England Statistics Symposium
Friday/Saturday, April 1617, 2010
Harvard, Cambridge, MA
w http://www.stat.harvard.edu
TeDepartmentofStatistics,HarvardUniversity,willhostthe24thNewEngland
StatisticsSymposium,SaturdayApril17,2010.InvitedkeynotespeakersareIain
Johnstone,StanfordUniversityandJenniferChayes,MicrosoftResearchNewEngland.
Terewillbefourmini-coursesonApril16,2009:Quantitative Financial Modelling in
the Post-Lehmann Landscape,presenter:StephenBlyth,HarvardManagementCompany;
Statistical Methods and Software for Genomic and Clinical Data Analysis,presenters:Curtis
Huttenhower,HarvardUniversityandFlorianMarkowetz,CancerResearchInstitute
UKandUniversityofCambridge;Statistical Elements of Complex Networks,presenter:
EdoAiroldiandJosephBlitzstein,HarvardUniversity;andResearch Cultivation and
Culmination: How to Get Your Paper Published (Eventually),presenters:JosephBlitzstein
andXiao-LiMeng,HarvardUniversity.
TeSymposiumthemeisStatisticsintheSciences.Severalinvitedspecialtheme
sessionswillrangefromstatisticsinbiologicalsciences(includingsystems-biologyand
genomics)tostatisticsinphysicalsciences(includingastrophysics),andformstatisticsin
healthcareandeconomics,tostatisticsineducationalassessmentandevaluation.
Additionally,studentsareencouragedtosubmitpapersforconsiderationforthebest
studentpapercompetition.Submissiondeadline:Monday,March1,2010.
Severaloptionsforsponsorshipopportunitiesareavailable.
Forregistration,details,andcontactinformation,seetheofcialsymposiumwebsiteat
http://www.stat.harvard.edu
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference 2010: Interplay between Finance and Insurance
February 45, 2010
Brussels, Belgium
w http://www.afmathconf.ugent.be/
summaryoftheprogramme:
Tursday,February4:
-Invitedspeakers:EckhardPlaten,PhilippeArtzner,RagnarNorberg,AntoonPelsser
-Contributedtalks
-PaneldiscussiononMarketconsistentvaluationininsurance
-Postersession
Friday,February5:
-Invitedspeakers:HansjoergAlbrecher,MariadeLourdesCenteno,DilipMadan,
MoniqueJeanblanc
-Contributedtalks
-Postersession
AllacademicsandpractitionersarewelcomedtoparticipateinthisActuarialandFinancialMathematicsConference.Pleaseregisteronline
attheAFMathConfwebsite(deadlineJanuary10,2010).Participation(includingsandwichesduringthepostersessiononTursday)is
freeforacademics,fornon-academicsthereisafeeof100euro.Registrationisrequiredforeveryone.Notethatthereisapossibilityfor
alunchFridaynoon(30euro,limitednumberofplaces)aswellasfortheconferencedinnerTursdayevening(60euro).Tismustbe
requesteduponregistration.Foradetailedprogramme,practicalinformationandregistration,wereferyoutotheconferencewebsite.
Academy House Hertogsstraat 1 / 1 Rue Ducale
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Invited speakers
Contributed talks by
Poster session
Panel discussion
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P
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Hansjoerg Albrecher
Maria de Lourdes Centeno
Monique Jeanblanc
Dilip Madan
Ragnar Norberg
Antoon Pelsser
Eckhard Platen
(Universit de Lausanne)
(Technical University of Lisbon)
(Universit d'Evry Val d'Essonne)
(University of Maryland)
(London School of Economics)
( University)
(University of Technology Sydney)
Philippe Artzner (Universit de Strasbourg)
Maastricht
Daniel Alai, Katrien Antonio, Donatien Hainaut, Johannes Leitner, , Antonis Papapantoleon
Mateusz Maj
Robert Salzmann
,
with 13 posters
on Market consistent valuation in insurance
Registration
* Registration is required.
Free of charge for academics
* More info, online registration :
* Deadline for registration:
Sponsors
Organising Committee
Griselda Deelstra - ULB, VUB Ann De Schepper - UA Pierre Devolder - UCL
Jan Dhaene - KULeuven
Wim Schoutens - KULeuven
Steven Vanduffel - VUB Paul Van Goethem - VUB
Michle Vanmaele - UGent
David Vyncke - UGent
Venue
The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
The ESF program Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance
FNRS: Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
Research Foundation
Flanders
WOG - Fundamental Methods &Techniques
in Mathematics
Scientific Committee
Rob Kaas University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Noel Veraverbeke University, Belgium
Hasselt
Griselda Deelstra Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Freddy Delbaen ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michel Denuit Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium Ernst Eberlein University of Freiburg, Germany
Act uar i al and Fi nanci al Mat hemat i cs Confer ence
Interplay between Finance and Insurance
Febr uar y 04-05, 2010
January 10, 2010
KULeuven - Fortis Chair Financial & Actuarial Risk Management
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Nonlinear stochastic wave equations: Blow-up of second moments in L
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Perpetuities with thin tails revisited . . . . PAWE HITCZENKO AND JACEK WESOOWSKI 2080
Conditional limit theorems for regulated fractional Brownian motion
HERNAN AWAD AND PETER GLYNN 2102
Heavy-trafc limits for waiting times in many-server queues with abandonment
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Limit theorems for additive functionals of a Markov chain
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Proportional fairness and its relationship with multi-class queueing networks
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Interacting multi-class transmissions in large stochastic networks
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Concentration of measure and spectra of random matrices: Applications to correlation
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The Department of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications and
nominations for the Eberly Family Endowed Chair. This unique position is the first endowed
chair in the department, and was held since its inception in 1988 by Professor C. R. Rao, now
Eberly Professor Emeritus of Statistics.
Candidates with an exceptional record of achievement and research leadership in any area of
statistics and with credentials appropriate to a tenured full professorship will be considered.
Candidates will be expected to take an active role of intellectual leadership in the department.
Candidates with interests in the life sciences (e.g. genomics, infectious disease research,
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The Department faculty members are engaged in a wide variety of research areas including
multivariate analysis, likelihood theory, computational methods, biostatistics and statistical
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