Volume 38 • Issue 10 IMS Bulletin

December 2009 Looking ahead to 2010 IMS Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, , August 9–13, 2010 Contents Gothenburg (Göteborg) is Sweden’s second-largest city, after Stockholm, with a 1 Looking ahead to population of half a million. It traces its origins to the seventeenth century, and to its Gothenburg strategic importance as a gateway to the west. The city has historical connections with 2–3 Members’ News: David several nations, including from where many early settlers came, and of course Donoho; Sallie Keller; New to and Norway—Gothenburg’s location encouraged trade with both these IMS contact details countries, and the city quickly developed into a major shipping port. The original city plan was drawn up by the Dutch, and for many years Gothenburg’s charter decreed 4-6 IMS Journal News that the city council should be comprised of Dutch, German, British and Swedish 7 Nominations members in equal proportions. 8 Obituary: Stephen Lagakos The city’s rich cultural activities are major attractions, including many the­atres, the and the . Gothenburg is home to 9 Mentoring African Researchers , Scandinavia’s largest amusement park, which is only minutes from the Renew now; SDNS Award 10 city centre. There are two universities: 11 Terence’s Stuff: You want The University of Gothenburg, one of proof? the largest in Scandinavia, and Chalmers 13 IMS meetings University of Technology, founded in 1829 after a donation from William 19 Other meetings Chalmers, a very successful trader and the 22 Employment Opportunities son of a Scottish immigrant.

27 International Calendar of The IMS Annual Meeting also prom- courtesy & Co of Gothenburg Kjell Holmner, Photo: Statistical Events ises a multitude of attractions. Twenty- two sessions in are planned, and 31 Information for Advertisers twenty-three in , together with seven sessions jointly in both disciplines, and several memorial sessions. There will also be two special lectures (on the topics Carl Milles’ 1931 statue of Poseidon stands in front of of climate change and , respec­ Gothenburg’s Museum of Art. Poseidon, the Greek god tively), and the IMS’s usual smorgasbord of the sea, is often used as a symbol of this sea-port of plenary and Medallion lectures. The word smörgåsbord is borrowed from Swedish, and describes not only the great variety you will find in Gothenburg’s buffet-style restaurants, but also the many attractions that the IMS has to offer. For example, the sessions in statistics include seven under the heading Theory and Methods, five under Genetics, Health and , five under Computer Modelling and Computing, and five under Physical and Environmental Science. In Probability the headings include Special Processes and Models (eight sessions); Probability, & Social Sciences (two sessions); Analysis: The­ory, Methods and Applications (five sessions); Statistical Physics & Disordered Sys­tems (four sessions); Combinatorial & Graph Theoretic Probability (two sessions); and Continued on Page 5 IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10 Volume 38 • Issue 10 December 2009 IMS members’ news ISSN 1544-1881 On October 9, 2009, David L. Donoho received the honorary Contact information degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago. The IMS Bulletin Editor: Xuming He occasion was a Special Convocation, the 500th in the University’s Assistant Editor: Tati Howell history, and Donoho’s was one of four degrees awarded. In Contributing Editors: Peter Bickel, Louis Chen, presenting the degree, the University’s President, mathematician Rick Durrett, Nicole Lazar, Terry Speed Robert Zimmer, stated that “David L. Donoho is a mathematical To contact the IMS Bulletin: , and also one of the more influential applied mathemati- IMS Bulletin cians of his generation. Building upon the discipline of statistics, 2 Lampern View, Uley, Dursley GL11 5TD Donoho has developed effective new approaches to constructing UK low-dimensional representations for modern high-dimensional e [email protected] problems. His work provides new insight into some of the most pressing scientific questions of the present day.” To contact the IMS regarding your dues, Donoho is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the membership, subscriptions, orders or change of address: Humanities and Sciences, and Professor, Department of Statistics, IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office Stanford University. 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A The University of Chicago awards honorary degrees only for Bethesda MD 20814-3998 distinguished scholarship. Previously, University of Chicago honor- USA ary degrees have gone to R. A. Fisher (1952), t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] (1955), (1959), Maurice S. Bartlett (1966), John W. t +1 216 295 5661[international] Tukey (1969), Fred Mosteller (1973), Erich L. Lehmann (1989), f +1 301 634 7099 e [email protected] Charles M. Stein (1992), (1994), (1995), David Aldous (2000), Persi Diaconis (2003), and Grace To contact the IMS regarding any other Wahba (2007). matter, including advertising, copyright David Donoho and the Chicago Department of Statistics (from left, Peter McCullagh, Dan Nicolae, Mathias Drton, permission, offprint orders, copyright David Wallace, Ron Thisted, David Donoho, Michael Stein, Stephen Stigler, Mary Sara McPeek, Steve Lalley, Debashis transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows Mondal, Mei Wang) nominations and content of publications: Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office PO Box 22718, Beachwood OH 44122, USA t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] t +1 216 295 5661[international] f +1 216 295 5661 e [email protected] Executive Committee President: J. Michael Steele [email protected] President-Elect: Peter Hall [email protected] Past President: Nanny Wermuth [email protected] Treasurer: Rong Chen [email protected] Program Secretary: Guenther Walther [email protected] Executive Secretary: Marten Wegkamp [email protected] IMS Editors December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 3 IMS Journals and Publications Annals of Statistics: & http://imstat.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Bradley Efron, Stephen Fienberg, Michael Newton & Michael Stein http://imstat.org/aoas The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Annals of Probability: Ofer Zeitouni at Iowa State University honored Sallie http://imstat.org/aop Keller with the John V. Atanasoff Research Annals of Applied Probability: and Discovery Award at the ISU Alumni http://imstat.org/aap Statistical Science: David Madigan Association’s awards ceremony on Friday, http://imstat.org/sts Oct. 16, 2009. This award was established IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Anirban DasGupta in 2005 to honor alumni of the college http://imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm IMS Collections: Anirban DasGupta who have furthered scientific knowledge of http://imstat.org/publications/ the nation and the world, either through imscollections.htm laboratory accomplishments and/or man- NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics: http://imstat.org/publications/nsf.htm agement. Sallie Keller is the William and IMS Co-sponsored Journals and Publications Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering and Electronic Journal of Statistics: Larry Wasserman Professor of Statistics in the George Brown http://imstat.org/ejs School of Engineering at Rice University. Electronic Journal of Probability: Bálint Tóth http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp She has widely published and is co-author Sallie Ann Keller Electronic Communications in Probability: of a book entitled Introduction to Probability Timo Seppäläinen and Systems Modeling. Her areas of research http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp /ECP/index.php are quantification, computational and graphical statistics and related software Current Index to Statistics: George Styan and modeling techniques, and data access and confidentiality. Her leadership experience http://www.statindex.org spans the academy, industry, and government. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: David van Dyk Keller was a group leader for statistical sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs from 1998–2005. She was professor and director of graduate studies in the University of Statistics Surveys: Jon Wellner Kansas Department of Statistics from 1996–98. She held a joint research fellowship of the http://imstat.org/ss Probability Surveys: Geoffrey Grimmett American Statistical Association, National Science Foundation (NSF), and Bureau of Labor http://imstat.org/ps Statistics from 1996–97 and served as program director for Statistics and Probability in the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the NSF from 1994–96. IMS Supported Journals Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B): Alice Guionnet Keller, who was named a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of http://imstat.org/aihp Science in 2005, received the American Statistical Association’s Founders Award in 2002. Bayesian Analysis: Brad Carlin She was also named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and http://ba.stat.cmu.edu Bernoulli: Holger Rootzén a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997. She was president and chairman http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli of the board of directors of the American Statistical Association in 2006. She is a member Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics: Silvia Ferrari of the American Association of University Women, as well as the board of Management http://imstat.org/bjps Leadership of Tomorrow. Keller served as president of Mu Sigma Rho at Iowa State while IMS Affiliated Journals earning her PhD. ALEA: Latin American Journal of Probability and Statistics: Claudio Landim http://alea.impa.br/english IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office new telephone number Probability and : W. Szczotka, If you are calling the IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office to A. Weron & W.A. Woyczyński http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~pms renew your membership, place an order for a publication, or update your address records, please note the new phone Other IMS contacts numbers. IMS website: http://imstat.org From within the United States, the toll-free number is Managing Editor: Michael Phelan 877-557-4674. If dialling from outside America, the interna- [email protected] tional number is +1 216 295 2340. These numbers are now the Production Editor: Patrick Kelly [email protected] same for the IMS Business Office. 4 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

Journal News: Annals of Statistics ISSN (0090-5364) Susan Murphy and Bernard Silverman have been THE ANNALS co-editors of the Annals of Statistics for three years, and of their term is about to end. The new co-editors will be Peter STATISTICS Bühlmann and T. Tony Cai. Peter (ETH Zürich) and Tony AN OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE (University of Pennsylvania) INSTITUTEOF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS will serve for a three year term, from January 1, 2010 to Articles December 31, 2012. Estimation of trend in state-space models: Asymptotic square error and rate of convergence...... PRABIR BURMANAND ROBERT H.SHUMWAY 3715 There have been two Contour projected dimension reduction double issues this year, in RONGHUA LUO,HANSHENG WANGAND CHIH-LING TSAI 3743 High-dimensional additive modeling Volume 37 (5A and 5B, and LUKAS MEIER,SARA VAN DE GEERAND PETER BÜHLMANN 3779 6A and 6B). This action was Corrections to LRT on large-dimensional matrix by RMT ZHIDONG BAI,DANDAN JIANG,JIAN-FENG YAOAND SHURONG ZHENG 3822 taken to decrease the backlog Quantile regression in partially linear varying coefficient models of papers—itself a result of HUIXIA JUDY WANG,ZHONGYI ZHUAND JIANHUI ZHOU 3841 Karl Pearson’s meta-analysis revisited ...... ART B.OWEN 3867 improvements in the referee- Specification testing in nonlinear and nonstationary autoregression ing process. JITI GAO,MAXWELL KING,ZUDI LUAND DAG TJØSTHEIM 3893 Incoming Editors Peter Using the bootstrap to quantify the authority of an empirical PETER HALLAND HUGH MILLER 3929 and Tony commented, “Susan Data spectroscopy: Eigenspaces of convolution operators and clustering and Bernard have initialized TAO SHI,MIKHAIL BELKINAND BIN YU 3960 Detection of spatial clustering with average likelihood ratio test statistics important changes in the HOCK PENG CHAN 3985 editorial process by introduc- Testing conditional independence via Rosenblatt transforms ...... KYUNGCHUL SONG 4011 Break detection in the covariance structure of multivariate time series models ing the Electronic Journal ALEXANDER AUE,SIEGFRIED HÖRMANN,LAJOS HORVÁTH Management System (EJMS), AND MATTHEW REIMHERR 4046 A geometric characterization of c-optimal designs for heteroscedastic regression and they have been very HOLGER DETTEAND TIM HOLLAND-LETZ 4088 successful in keeping the high PCA consistency in high dimension, low sample size context SUNGKYU JUNGAND J.S.MARRON 4104 quality standard of the Annals Subspace estimation and methods for hidden Markov models of Statistics while drastically SOFIA ANDERSSONAND TOBIAS RYDÉN 4131 reducing review times and Local quasi-likelihood with a parametric guide ,YICHAO WUAND YANG FENG 4153 clearing a long backlog of Decomposition tables for I. A chain of randomizations papers waiting for publica- C.J.BRIENAND R.A.BAILEY 4184 Efficient estimation of copula-based semiparametric Markov models tion. Susan and Bernard, XIAOHONG CHEN,WEI BIAO WUAND YANPING YI 4214 thank you for having further Sparsistency and rates of convergence in large estimation CLIFFORD LAMAND JIANQING FAN 4254 shaped the Annals of Statistics Nonlinear principal components and long-run implications of multivariate diffusions to one of the best and most XIAOHONG CHEN,LARS PETER HANSENAND JOSÉ SCHEINKMAN 4279 efficient journals in statistics.“ The latest issue of AOS—Volume 37, issue 6B, December 2009—is available to read online (free, of course, for all IMS members) at http:// Vol. 37, No. 6B—December 2009 projecteuclid.org/aos December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 5

Journal News: Annals of Applied Probability

IMS Council members have approved Annals of Applied Probability the appointment of Andrew Barbour as October 2009 issue contents: the new editor of the Annals of Applied Robust adaptive importance for normal random vectors. Benjamin Jourdain Probability, to serve from January 1, 2010 and Jérôme Lelong; 1687-1718 to December 31, 2012, as recommended by State space collapse and diffusion approximation for a network operating under a fair band- the Committee to Select Editors. width sharing policy. W. N. Kang, F. P. Kelly, N. H. Lee and R. J. Williams; 1719-1780 Andrew is Professor of Biomathematics at Universität Zürich, Switzerland. He On the silhouette of binary search trees. Rudolf Grübel; 1781-1802 lists his research on his homepage A polymer in a multi-interface medium. Francesco Caravenna and Nicolas Pétrélis; (http://user.math.uzh.ch/barbour/index.html) 1803-1839 as “applied probability, biomathematics and statistics,” in particular, Stein’s method for Approximations of the and its curvature measures. Jan Rataj, Evgeny distributional approximation; mathematical Spodarev and Daniel Meschenmoser; 1840-1859 epidemiology: modelling and ; A note on the enumeration of directed animals via gas considerations. Marie Albenque; combinatorial and geometrical probability; 1860-1879 branching and population processes; and computational molecular biology. Spatially explicit non-Mendelian diploid model. N. Lanchier and C. Neuhauser; 1880- Yuval Peres has resigned from editing 1920 AAP because of increased work responsibili- Coexistence for a multitype contact process with seasons. B. Chan, R. Durrett and N. ties at Microsoft. In the interim, the editor- Lanchier; 1921-1943 ship has been managed most generously by Ed Waymire and Rick Durrett who deserve Esscher transform and the duality principle for multidimensional . Ernst great credit for their selfless contributions. Eberlein, Antonis Papapantoleon and Albert N. Shiryaev; 1944-1971 AAP is running smoothly with their help, Attraction time for strongly reinforced walks. Codina Cotar and Vlada Limic; 1972- and the new editor should expect to have a 2007 very pleasant start-up. The October 2009 issue (Volume 19, On deciding stability of multiclass queueing networks under buffer priority scheduling Number 5) is at http://projecteuclid.org/aap policies. David Gamarnik and Dmitriy Katz; 2008-2037

Looking ahead to Gothenburg… continued from cover Journal News: Annals of Probability & Biology (two sessions). The joint sessions will be in the areas of neuroscience, imaging & random fields, spatial model- Applied Statistics ling in ecology & environmental sciences, financial markets in energy, climate & natural resources, portfolio optimization, insur- The Annals of Applied Statistics is going from strength to strength. ance & risk management, extreme value theory & applications, Submissions are up by 25 per cent this year, says Bradley Efron, and telecommunications. Editor-in-Chief. He announced a new member of the AOAS We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg in August! editorial team: “I’m happy to report that Samuel Kou, Harvard Particularly in that month the climate is delightful. The average Department of Statistics, has accepted our offer to take over as August maximum temperature is 72ºF (22ºC), with a minimum General Topics editor when Karen Kafadar replaces Michael of 58 (14) degrees. You can easily travel to Gothenburg; the city’s Newton as Biomedical/Genetics editor on January 1, 2010. This airport is Sweden’s second largest, and trains and buses link the will reduce the average age of the editors considerably, and will city to many other destinations, both within certainly not decrease the average IQ!” and outside Sweden. Read the latest issue of AOAS at http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Välkommen! 6 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

Statistics Surveys An IMS Open-Access Journal

Statistics Surveys is an online open-access refereed journal that publishes overview articles in theoretical, computational, and applied statistics. The style of articles may from reviews of recent research to graduate textbook exposition. Articles may be broad or narrow in scope. The essential requirements are a well- specified topic and target audience, together with clear exposi- tion. Please see the current issue at the journal website for recent articles, including one by Professor Judea Pearl (UCLA) on causal inference in statistics. 2 Statistics Surveys is sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and by the Statistical Society of Canada.

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IMS Awards: nominate or apply now

IMS Fellowship nomination IMS Laha Travel Awards http://www.imstat.org/awards/fellows.htm http://www.imstat.org/awards/laha.html Deadline: January 31, 2010 Deadline: February 1, 2010 Qualifications for Fellowship: The candidate With funds from a generous bequest by the late Professor Radha shall have demonstrated distinction in Govind Laha, IMS has established the Laha Awards to provide research in statistics or probability, by funds for travel to present a paper at the 2010 IMS Annual publication of independent work of merit. Meeting, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 9–13, 2010 This qualification may be partly or wholly (www.ims-gothenburg.com). waived in the case of either: Eligibility: First priority to students, second priority to New (1) a candidate of well-established leader- Researchers within 2 years of PhD at the date of the meeting. ship whose contributions to the field of Applicants must be members of IMS, though joining at the time statistics or probability other than original of application is allowed. Student membership is free and New Radha Laha research shall be judged of equal value; or Researchers also qualify for substantially reduced rates. (2) a candidate of well-established leader- Amount: Grants per award provided to Laha awardees have been typically around ship in the application of statistics or US$500. The actual amount of an award depends on the travel distance to the IMS statisti- probability, whose work has contributed cal meeting. Grants will be reimbursed against receipts, and may be combined with other greatly to the utility of and the appreciation sources of funding. of these areas. Applications will be reviewed by the IMS Committee on Travel Awards. The paper pre- Candidates for fellowship should be sented must be the work of the student (or new researcher), although it may be have been members of IMS on December 1 of the done in collaboration with an advisor or others. All applicants must submit their paper to year preceding their nomination, and the meeting directly (via http://www.ims-gothenburg.com/). This travel grant award applica- should have been members for at least tion and the meeting abstract submission are separate. two years. Details on how to nominate are on the website above. Please also read the The 2009 IMS Laha Travel Award recipients, pictured at JSM in Washington DC, with IMS President Nanny Wermuth (now Past-President), front row, second from left. Apply now for your travel to Sweden! supporting information on the website, and pass on the information to letter-writers. Letters are expected explicitly to address the above IMS criteria for fellowship.

Harry C Carver Medal http://www.imstat.org/awards/carver.html Deadline: February 1, 2010 Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, Founding Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics and one of the founders of the IMS. The medal is for exceptional service specifically to the IMS and is open to any member of the IMS who has not previously been elected President. Not more than one award shall be made each year. The medal will be awarded at a ceremony during the next IMS Annual Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. 8 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

Obituary: Stephen W. Lagakos 1946–2009

Stephen W. Lagakos, Professor of was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Photo: Harvard Health/ Photo: School of Public at Harvard School of Public the American Statistical Association and http://stephen-lagakos.memory-of.com/ Health, met an untimely death in an was Chair of Section U (Statistics) of the automobile accident on October 12, 2009, AAAS. He served on many NIH and FDA Steve Lagakos in Peterboro, New Hampshire. He was 63. committees and was a long time member The entire statistical community is greatly of the Editorial Board of the New saddened at the loss of one of the leading Journal of Medicine. He chaired the Institute Steve’s research interests were very members of our . of Medicine Committee on Methodological broad. He published papers on survival Steve was born and raised in Challenges in Biomedical HIV Prevention distributions, stochastic processes and Philadelphia. He earned a BS degree at Trials, and co-authored a recent book clinical trials. Many of his research papers Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD at describing the work of the Committee. were seminal and appeared in the leading George Washington University, Washington He was the founder and director of the journals of our profession. DC. After finishing his he joined Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research He collaborated with me on the famous the Stat Lab at the State University of (CBAR) at the Harvard School of Public “Woburn Study” which is still regarded as New York at Buffalo in 1972. The Stat Health, whose mission is to foster and con- among the most sophisticated statistical Lab was essentially the major statistical duct statistical scientific activity in clinical studies on the environment ever done. It center for carrying out cancer clinical trials and other public health research areas led to the recognition that ordinary citizens trials in the US. The Stat Center was the in HIV disease. CBAR has been responsible could play an important role in investiga- Statistical Coordinating Center for the for the planning, monitoring and analysis tions of the environment in their locality. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, the of nearly all of the federally-funded HIV Some writers referred to the involvement of GI Tumor Study Group, the Radiation clinical trials in the US. Steve was closely local residents in environmental studies as Therapy Oncology Group and the Veterans’ involved with all of CBAR’s activities. “citizen epidemiology”. Administration Lung Cancer Group. It He was a “hands-on” person. At the time Steve was a long-time member of the was a beehive of activity developing new of his death he was leading a group that Editorial Board of the New England Journal methodology for carrying out multi-center planned the most extensive of Medicine. When disputes involving cancer clinical trials. The influence of the ever on investigating the reduction of quantitative methods arose in the Editorial Stat Lab on Steve for dealing with real AIDS transmission from mother to infant. Board, he was the first one to be consulted problems remained with him throughout Undoubtedly, he was the leading biostat- by the Editor. A case in point was the his entire career. He joined Harvard in 1978 istician in the world working on clinical APPROVe clinical trial which evaluated and held appointments at Harvard and at trials in AIDS. His close contact with the use of Vioxx for the prevention of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. AIDS research led him and his students recurrent colorectal polyps. Patients were Steve was an elected Fellow of the to develop many new statistical methods not evaluated for cardiovascular side effects IMS, as well as the ASA, ISI and AAAS. to deal with the many new situations after dropping out of the study. Side effects He received the Spiegelman Gold Medal encountered in AIDS research. Among were present at least one year after a patient Award from the American Public Health these contributions were: the estimation of had dropped out of the trial. This problem Association (1983), was a co-recipient of failure-time distributions in the presence was missed by the clinical investigators. It the Howard M. Temin Award for Clinical of imperfect diagnostic tests; mis-specified raised many data analytic questions about Science (1993) and was elected to the proportional hazards models; timing of the evaluation of treatment side effects and Institute of Medicine (2002). Steve was perinatal transmission of AIDS; eradication the possible biases and dilutions associated awarded an honorary doctorate from the studies of chronic viral infections; adjust- with neglecting the side effects of drop-outs National and Kapodistrian University of ments for early treatment termination; and the failure to have suitable long-term Athens (2006). He served as Chair of the doubly-censored data and covariates; and follow-up time. Steve published perhaps Department of Biostatistics for eight years, cross-sectional HIV incidence estimation. the most sophisticated statistical paper ever Continued on Page 9 December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 9

Mentoring African Research in … and in Statistics and Probability? The electronic newsletter of the International Mathematical Union, IMU-Net, recently reported on this IMU programme: Mentoring African Research in Mathematics (MARM) is a cooperative programme designed to support mathematics research and advanced teaching in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The programme, which sponsors research partnerships between mathematicians in the more developed countries and African colleagues and their students, emerged from the work of the IMU’s Developing Countries Strategy Group. Its goal is to counter the mathematics “brain-drain” from sub-Saharan Africa by supporting the work of qualified mathematics professionals in situ. Working in consultation with all parties, MARM establishes longer-term mentoring relations between individual mathematicians and students, creating joint research partnerships between mathematicians working in established research centres, their colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa, and doctoral students of those colleagues. MARM is jointly run by the IMU, the London Mathematical Society, the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) and the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. It is supported by grants awarded by the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. The scheme has now been in operation for three years; three rounds of proposals have been Stephen W Lagakos, 1946–2009 considered, and nine mentoring partnerships have been set Continued from previous page up. Details of the Scheme and the existing projects can be published in the NEJM outlining the problem, found at http://www.lms.ac.uk/grants/MARM.html. describing analyses and methods for dealing with New partnerships are still being sought. the problem. More recently he and his student Mathematicians from the more developed Rui Wang, in collaboration with other statistical countries who may wish to become mentors consultants and the NEJM editor, established should contact the Scheme Facilitator, Dave guidelines on subgroup analyses to ensure complete Johnson ([email protected]); and accurate reporting in the NEJM. African universities and mathematicians Steve was an outstanding teacher and received interested in taking part should contact the recognition for his teaching talents from the AMMSI Programme Director, Wandera Ogana Harvard School of Public Health. However his ([email protected]). The third call has highest priority was mentoring students, postdocs closed but the Board managing MARM and junior faculty. He was generous with his time is keen to establish more partnerships and especially with authorship credits. He treated and is leaving the call open, with- students with very great respect regardless of their out a defined closing date. Those status. The entering graduate student or investiga- interested should make contact tors who were “statistical ignoramuses” were treated as soon as possible. with the same respect as the most senior Harvard professor. He changed the life of everyone he came into contact with. He was the best of all of us and was beloved by all. Marvin Zelen, Harvard School of Public Health 10 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

The Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security IMS dues: Distinguished Achievement Award renew and save Each year the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security presents this award to a member of the statistical community. This Renewing your IMS membership before announcement is for the next presentation of the award at the 2010 Joint Statistical the end of the year saves the institute Meetings in Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of the award is to recognize an outstanding money, and we pass that saving back to accomplishment or a record of sustained contributions at the intersection of the statistical you as a discount on your dues. (Students profession and national defense or national security. Any member of the section is allowed still join IMS for free!) While you are to nominate. renewing at https://www.imstat.org/ A nomination should include a short description of the basis for the award, contact secure/orders/IndMember.asp, you might information for both the nominator and the nominee, and suggested text for the certificate. consider these joint society memberships A maximum of five seconding letters submitted in PDF format are welcome. This recogni- at discounted rates: Bernoulli Society; tion does not include a financial award. Please be aware that unsuccessful nominations ISI+Bernoulli Society; INFORMS/Applied from previous years are not, and will not be, carried forward to the next year; therefore, Probability Society; International Society each year, new nomination packages should be prepared for previous nominees. Electronic for Bayesian Analysis; and Sociedad Latino nominations are preferred and may be emailed to Myron Katzoff ([email protected]). Americana de Probabilidad y Estadistica The deadline for nomination is March 15, 2010. Please refer questions to Dr. Myron Matematica (SLAPEM) Katzoff.

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Terence’s Stuff: You want proof?

The Kolmogorov extension theorem of Ralph Waldo Emerson—consistency is a “A proof tells us where to concentrate our surely counts as something requiring a thing we should demand of any statistical doubts,” said Morris real proof, and my favourite is that of procedure. Not any more. These days we Kline, mathematician. the French probabilist PA Meyer in his can simulate in and around the conditions But Terry Speed thinks (English) book and potentials. of our data, and learn whether a novel pro- we need derivations, I recently asked a colleague whether that cedure behaves as it should in that context. not proofs… theorem in all its glory has a permanent If it does, we might just believe the results place in our first measure-theoretic prob- of its application to our data. Other people’s ou want proof? I’ll give you proof! So ability course. Not any more, I was told. data? That’s their simulation, their part of goes one of my favourite cartoons, Sometimes it appears as a special topic, at the parameter space, their problem. Maybe by Sidney Harris [reproduced the end of the course; at other times it is a some theorist will take up the challenge, Yopposite]. project for one of the class. and study the procedure, and produce Do need proofs? One of my My late colleague David Freedman something useful. But if we’re still waiting first non-trivial statistical proofs showed wrote in his book on the topic: “One of for that with MLEs in general (canonical that the normal density integrates to 1. But the leading results on Brownian motion exponential families are in good shape), I was it really a proof, or just a demonstra- is that it exists.” Who among us would wouldn’t hold my breath for this novel pro- tion that the result could be derived using want to study something before they had cedure. By the time a few people have tried something else—transformations of double proved it exists? (“Me!” you cry. Go to the the new procedure, each time checking its integrals—which I had not proved? back of the class. This is the Institute of suitability by simulation in their context, Soon after that, I met the gamma and Mathematical Statistics.) Perhaps if all the we will have built up a proof by simulation. beta densities. We solved the problem of financial engineers around the globe had Shocking? Of course. their densities integrating to 1 pretty neatly: been required to work carefully through Some time into my career as a the gamma and beta functions were defined a version of Wiener’s existence proof, and statistician, I noticed that I don’t check to be what it takes to achieve this result. understand it com- I’m oversimplifying just a little. We needed pletely before they to know that a convolution of two normals could practice their Of course you can pile on assumptions so that the is again normal, and that took a little care. black arts, the sky proof is easy. If checking your assumptions in any When I first saw the same result holds for might have stayed particular case is harder than checking the conclusion gammas, -generating functions up a bit longer. in that case, you will have joined a great tradition. were used. A sledge-hammer to crack a nut. It is widely Later, when I bought my copy of Feller believed that under volume 2, I saw that chapters 1 and 2 con- some fairly general conditions, MLEs are the conditions of a theorem before I use tained compact proofs of (almost) all one consistent, asymptotically normal, and some model or method with a set of data. needs to know about the standard distribu- efficient. Stephen Stigler has elegantly docu- I think in statistics we need derivations, tions, including the convolution property mented some of Fisher’s troubles when he not proofs. That is, lines of reasoning of gammas. Feller was almost gloating when wanted a proof. You want proof? Of course from some assumptions to a formula, or he wrote, “This important property…will you can pile on assumptions so that the a procedure, which may or may not have be in constant use; the proof is exceedingly proof is easy. If checking your assumptions certain properties in a given context, but simple.” in any particular case is harder than check- which, all going well, might provide some When it came to the same fact for the ing the conclusion in that case, you will insight. The evidence that this might be the Cauchy, Feller said it “can be proved in an have joined a great tradition. case can be mathematical, not necessarily elementary (but tedious) fashion” using I used to think that was a with epsilon-delta rigour, simulation, or just partial fractions. He was right, so his next thing for the theorists (I can live with inef- verbal. Call this “a statistician’s proof”. This piece of advice was to use , ficiency), that normality was a thing of the is what I do these days. Should I be kicked (not moment-generating functions). past (we can simulate), but that—in spite out of the IMS? 12 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

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IMS meetings around the world At a glance:

2010 WNAR/IMS Meeting: June 20–23, 2010, Seattle, Washington forthcoming w http://www.wnar.org/ IMS Annual IMS Program Chair: Brenda Kurland; WNAR Program Chair: Carolyn Rutter Meeting and WNAR sponsors students who enter the student paper competition with travel assistance and registration prices. Information on the 2010 WNAR Student Paper Competition, registration information and program details for the JSM dates meeting will be posted on the WNAR website http://www.wnar.org/ as they become available. We look forward to seeing you there! 2010 IMS-sponsored meeting JSM: Vancouver, Canada, July 31– August 5, 2010

IMS Annual Meeting: Gothenburg, Sweden, August 9–13, 2010 2011 IMS Annual Meeting @ JSM: Miami Beach, FL, July 30– August 4, 2011 2012 JSM: San Diego, CA, July 28– August 2, 2012

IMS Annual Meeting @ World Congress: İstanbul, Turkey, Date TBA 2013 IMS Annual Meeting @ JSM: Montréal, Canada, August 3–8, 2013 2014 JSM: Boston, MA, August 2–7, 2014

IMS Annual Meeting: Location/date TBA IMS 2010 Gothenburg Institute of Mathematical Statistics 73rd Annual Meeting, Aug 9-13, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden Venue: Chalmers University of Technology

Probability and Statistics Sessions • and methods • Stochastic processes and analysis • Computer modelling and computing • Genetics , health and epidemiology • Molecular biology and genomics • Statistical physics and disordered systems • Statistics, physics and the environment • Probability, economics and social science • Combinatorics and graph theory • Probability in biology • Neuroscience and imaging • Risk and extreme values

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IMS sponsored meeting JSM2010 July 31 – August 5, 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada w www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010/ The 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held at the Vancouver Convention Center. The IMS program chairs are Regina Liu, Rutgers (rliu@stat. rutgers.edu), for invited sessions, and Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo, Canada ([email protected]), for contributed sessions. If you have any questions about the JSM 2010 program, please contact them. Abstract submission open between December 1, 2009 and February 1, 2010. Please note the new requirements for travelers from the United States Since January 1, 2007, EVERYONE traveling by AIR between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Bermuda have been required to present a valid passport, air NEXUS card, or U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document due to regulations set forth by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. As of 1 June 2009, EVERYONE traveling between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda by LAND, SEA (including cruises and ferries) or AIR will be required to present a valid passport or other docu- ments as determined by the Department of Homeland Security to cross the border. U.S. residents can access the following websites for passport and Visa information: Passport: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html Visa: http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html

IMS co-sponsored meeting IMS co-sponsored meeting Model Uncertainty From Markov Processes to Brownian Motion and Beyond— May 30 – June 1, 2010 An International Conference In Memory of Kai Lai Chung University of Warwick, UK June 13–16, 2010 IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dario Spanò Peking University, w TBC IMS Representatives on Program Committees: Louis Chen, Zhen- Qing Chen, Jim Dai, Zhi-Ming Ma and Ruth Williams. IMS co-sponsored meeting w TBC AISTATS2010 (Artificial Intelligence and Statistics) May 13–15, 2010 Chia Laguna Resort, Sardinia IMS co-sponsored meeting IMS Representative on Program Committees: Michael Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2010 Titterington March 11–13, 2010 w http://www.aistats.org University of Central Florida The objective of this series of conferences is to bring together w http://depts.washington.edu/ssproc/ people with common interests from the , Apart from informal presentations by con- statistics and related communities. ference participants, there will be plenary There will be a small number of invited talks, by Richard talks by five invited speakers. In addition, Gill, John Lafferty and Simon Tavaré, but the bulk of the a short informal afternoon session will be program will consist of contributed talks and posters; see the held honoring the late Kai Lai Chung’s website for details, especially the deadline of November 6, 2009 mathematical career. Kai Lai Chung for submission of full papers for review. 16 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

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IMS co-sponsored meeting IMS co-sponsored meeting International Conference on Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Methods in Game Theory Operations Research, Computer Science and Allied Areas September 8–16, 2010 January 4–8, 2010 Erice, Sicily, Italy Visakhapatnam, w http://space.luiss.it/stochastic-workshop/ Abstract Deadline: August 31, 2009 IMS Representative on Program Committees: Marco Scarsini w http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html Many decision problems involve elements of uncertainty and of The objective of this conference is to assess recent developments in strategy. Most often the two elements cannot be easily disentangled. the fields of statistics, probability and computer science to discuss The aim of this workshop is to examine several aspects of the future directions in terms of theory, practice and education. One between strategy and . Various game theoretic of the primary goals is to foster international collaboration in these models will be presented, where stochastic elements are particularly related areas through the exchange of ideas and experiences to relevant either in the formulation of the model itself or in the enhance other technology transfer activities. Reforms needed in sta- computation of its solutions. tistical education and training in order to meet the changing needs For more information please send an email to [email protected] of the industry and government which receive special attention. The program of the conference will include several invited sessions, IMS co-sponsored meeting and contributed sessions as well as workshops. English is the official 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications language for all conference materials and presentations. The confer- September 6–10, 2010 ence will be held at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam. Osaka, The conference will feature topics including: applied probabil- w http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/index.html ity; random walks; Bayes inference; biostatistics and ; To be held in Osaka, Senri life center, from 6–10 September, 2010. communication networks and security; ; design of The conference is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli experiments; directional data analysis; distribution theory; econo- Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and co-spon- metrics; Markov processes and Markov decision theory; math- sored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It is the major ematical finance; multivariate analysis; nonparametric inference; annual meeting for researchers working in the field of Stochastic operations research, queues and inventories; pattern recognition Processes. and image processing; ; limit theorems; statistical The conference covers a wide range of active research areas, in education; statistical and reliability; stochastic mod- particular featuring 20 invited plenary lectures presented by leading eling; stochastic processes, stochastic and control; survey specialists. In addition, there will be a large variety of special ses- sampling; ; time series analysis; and related areas. sions, consisting of three talks each, and contributed sessions. Workshop: on January 3, 2010, at the beginning of the confer- ence there will be a one day satellite workshop on Distribution IMS co-sponsored meeting Theory and Directional Data Analysis. Statistical Science—Making a Difference Plenary Sessions and Speakers: Statistics: Prof. B.L.S. Prakasa June 3–4, 2010. University of Wisconsin, Madison Rao (University of Hyderabad, India); Probability: Prof. Srinivasa w TBC Varadhan (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA); IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Kjell Doksum, Biostatistics: Dr. Joseph Heyse (Vice President-Biostatistics, Merck Johnson, Grace Wahba Research Labs, USA). Special Session: A special session will be organized to honor Prof C.R. Rao, Prof S. Rao Jammalamadaka IMS co-sponsored meeting and Prof. J. Lakshminarayana, for services rendered to Andhra International Chinese Statistical Association’s University. 2010 International Conference Registration: All participants are encouraged to pre-register to December 19–22, 2010 secure a guaranteed place at the Conference. See the website for Guangzhou University, Guang-Zhou, China details. w TBC December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 17

IMS co-sponsored meeting First Announcement: Fourth International IMS/ISBA Joint Meeting “MCMSki III”: Monte Carlo in Statistical Science January 5–7, 2011 Park City, Utah, USA (“The Canyons”) w http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html Following up on the success of the first three joint international committed support meetings of IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA for young research- (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) held in Isla Verde, ers, with preference Puerto Rico, and Bormio, Italy, the fourth such joint meeting will to senior/advanced be held at The Canyons in Park City, Utah, USA on January 5–7, students active in 2011. The unifying theme of the conference will be MCMC and its research, and prefer- impact on the practice of statistical science in diverse areas, such as entially to students genetics, genomics, environmental health, epidemiology, and so on. from economically However, since this is a joint meeting of two diverse organizations, disadvantaged talks on a wide variety of topics (both Bayesian and non-Bayesian) countries. will be presented. Further details, Each day will begin with a 50-minute talk by a plenary speaker, including registra- immediately followed by an invited session, then lunch, and then tion fees, hotel an afternoon break (where skiing/snowboarding will be among the accommodation, options). Following the break will be another invited session, then and social events, dinner and posters; in short, “Valencia style” with ski/spa time are available from replacing the usual beach time. There will also be a pre-conference the official confer- “satellite” meeting on adaptive and other advanced MCMC meth- ence website, http:// ods on January 3–4, with Prof. Christian Robert again serving as madison.byu.edu/ lead organizer (details to follow). mcmski/index.html We are very fortunate to have commitments the following three In particular, outstanding plenary speakers: conference registra- Prof. , Imperial College London and St. Mary’s Hospital tion will be available Prof. Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin online starting in Prof. Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of Toronto December, 2009 In addition, the members of the program committee (see below) through a link from have assembled an invited program that is as attractive as the con- our site to an easy-to-use site maintained by the IMS. All papers ference venue, with sessions on: presented at the conference (either invited or contributed) will be Modeling Dependence for High-Throughput Data eligible for publication in the official journal of ISBA, Bayesian Advances in MCMC for Genomics Analysis, following a refereeing process; see ba.stat.cmu.edu for Bayesian versus Frequentist Approaches in Observational Studies details. Environmental Health Statistics Program Committee: MCMC for Computationally-Intensive Inverse Problems Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota (Conference Co-chair) The meeting will take place at the conference center at “The Antonietta Mira, University of Insubria (Conference Co-chair) Canyons”, located approximately 40 minutes from Salt Lake City Shane Reese, Brigham Young University (Local Arrangements (SLC) airport and readily accessible by public transport. The airport Chair) is a hub for Delta Airlines, now the world’s biggest commercial air Clelia DiSerio, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele carrier. Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University We anticipate obtaining grant support from various federal Sander Greenland, University of California, Los Angeles sources to help subsidize the cost of attending MCMSki III for David Higdon, Los Alamos National Laboratory young investigators (persons within 5 years of receiving PhD) Peter Muller, MD Anderson Cancer Center presenting talks or posters at the meeting. In addition, ISBA has Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University 18 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

IMS co-sponsored meeting IMS co-sponsored meeting Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sciences: Sixth Cornell Probability Summer School in honor of C.R. Rao’s 90th birthday July 19–30, 2010 December 31, 2009 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – January 2, 2010 The scientific program is organized by Hyderabad, India Laurent Saloff-Coste. The theme is heat w http://www.stat. kernels. osu.edu/~hnn/ The main speakers, who will give six hydstatconf2010.html lectures each, are Martin Barlow, Bruce The IMS Reps Driver, and Alexander Grigoryan. Two lec- are S. Rao ture series will be given by Sasha Bendikov, Jammalamadaka, Z.Q. Chen, Masha Gordina, and Takashi S. Pantula, and S. Kumagai. Ghosh As in the past, all accepted participants The conference will have their dorm rooms paid for. US is in honor of C.R. citizens can apply for $400 of support for Rao who will be local expenses. attaining the age of 90 in 2010. The IMS co-sponsored meeting topics will include, Seventh Cornell Probability Summer School biometrics, bioinfor- July 11–22, 2011 matics, cryptology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY signal processing, The school will be concerned with prob- data mining, ability problems that arise from statistical and physics. statistical inference. The main speakers are Marek Biskup, Geoff Grimmett, and Greg Lawler.

IMS co-sponsored meeting IMS co-sponsored meeting 2010 ENAR/IMS Spring Meetings International Conference on Statistics, Probability, Operations Research, Computer Science March 21–24, 2010 and Allied Areas Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, January 4–8, 2010. Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Louisiana, USA w http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html IMS Program Chairs: Marie Davidian and IMS Representatives on Program Committees: N. Balakrishnan (Chair), Canada; Hira Hao Helen Zhang Koul, USA; Soumendra Nath Lahiri, USA w http://www.enar.org/meetings.cfm The objective of this conference is to assess recent developments in the fields of Statistics, Probability and Computer Science to discuss future directions in terms of theory, practice IMS co-sponsored meeting and education. One of the primary goals is to foster international collaboration in these 2011 ENAR/IMS Spring Meetings related areas through the exchange of ideas and experiences to enhance other technology March 20–23, 2011 transfer activities. Reforms needed in statistical education and training in order to meet Hyatt Regency Miami, Florida, USA the changing needs of the industry and government which receive special attention. The w http://www.enar.org/meetings.cfm program of the conference will include several invited sessions, contributed sessions as well as workshops. English is the official language for all conference materials and presentations. December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 19

Other Meetings Around the World: Announcements and Calls for Papers

Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical LASR 2010: High-Throughput Sequencing, Proteins and Statistics Physics: Conference in honor of Len Gross July 6–8, 2010, , UK April 11–13, 2010 w http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2010/ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY e [email protected] w http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~bdriver/ Call for Abstracts: We are inviting abstracts from anyone wishing to give a contributed LGC09/index.htm presentation at LASR 2010. Abstracts should be one or two paragraphs in length, outlin- A conference in honor of Len Gross, titled ing the work that you would like to present. Please indicate whether you would prefer Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical to present your work as a short talk or as a poster presentation. The deadline for abstract Physics, will be held April 11-13, 2010 at submission is 31 January 2010. If your abstract is accepted, we will invite you to submit an Cornell University. The conference is orga- extended abstract of up to four pages for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. nized by Bruce Driver (UCSD) and Masha The 2010 Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop will focus on developments at Gordina (University of Connecticut). the interface between statistical methodology and bioinformatics and more generally in Confirmed speakers include: Fabrice interdisciplinary statistics. Baudoin (Purdue), René Carmona We are pleased to announce that the following leading statisticians and bioinfor- (Princeton), Eric Carlen (Rutgers), Brian Hall maticians are expected to speak at LASR 2010: Fred Bookstein (University of Vienna, (Notre Dame), Elton Hsu (Northwestern), University of Washington); Thomas Hamelryck (University of Copenhagen); Richard Todd Kemp (UCSD/MIT), H.-H. Kuo Jackson (University of Leeds); John Kent (University of Leeds); Arthur Lesk (Pennsylvania (LSU), Michel Ledoux (Toulouse), Paul State University); Kanti Mardia (University of Leeds); Geoff McLachlan (University of Malliavin (Paris), Artem Pulemetov Queensland); Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley); Paul Verrier (Rothamsted (Chicago), Ambar Sengupta (LSU), and Research); David Westhead (University of Leeds); Ernst Wit (University of Groningen). Dan Stroock (MIT). This conference is sponsored by Cornell Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND5) probability group’s NSF Research Training May 20–22, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA Grant. Individuals who want to attend w http://sand.stat.cmu.edu should fill out the registration form on the The fifth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neural Data is concerned with conference web page. Local expenses will analysis methods for neural signals from various sources, including EEG, fMRI, MEG, be paid for accepted participants. We hope 2-Photon, and extracellular recordings. It aims to that non-speaking participants will have * define important problems in neuronal data analysis and useful strategies for attacking their travel paid by their home institution. them; However, there is a small amount of money * foster communication between experimental neuroscientists and those trained in statis- available for participants for whom this is tical and computational methods impossible. * encourage young researchers, including graduate students, to present their work; Sponsors: This conference has been * expose young researchers to important challenges and opportunities in this interdisci- made possible through a grant to Cornell plinary domain, while providing a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction from the National Science Foundation, of young researchers with senior colleagues. We expect some travel funds. whose generosity is gratefully acknowl- A series of short talks (20 minutes, including questions) will be given by young investiga- edged. We also acknowledge the Cornell tors (within 5 years of PhD) on a competitive basis. Anyone interested in presenting their mathematics department for their generos- work as a talk should submit an abstract by February 28. In addition, all participants ity in supplying a venue for this conference. are encouraged to present posters involving new methodology, investigation of existing methods, or application of state-of-the-art analytical techniques. We expect there to be a special issue of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience devoted to analysis of neural data, including many papers from this workshop. 20 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10 December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 21

XVIII Annual Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society 45th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society September 29 – October 2, 2010 June 16–18, 2010 S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal Padua, Italy w http://www.mat.uc.pt/~spe2010 w http://www.sis-statistica.it/meetings/index.php/sis2010/sis2010 This is a forum for discussion and presentation of activities and The Italian Statistical Society (SIS) promotes an international new ideas in statistics and probability. There will be a special scientific meeting every two years. The 2010 meeting will take place focus on nonparametric methods and, as an introduction to the in Padua, Italy, next June. The Conference will include plenary, in preparation in Portugal, on sampling. A short course in specialized, contributed and poster sessions. These can be on any nonparametric methods will be given. area of relevant to theoretical and applied statistics.

COMPSTAT 2010: 19th International XVII International Symposium on European Meeting of Statisticians 2010 Conference on Computational Statistics Mathematical Methods Applied to the August 17–22, 2010 August 22-27, 2010 Sciences (Simposio Internacional de Metodos University of Piraeus, Paris, Matematicos Aplicados a las Ciencias) w http://stat.unipi.gr/ems2010 w http://www.compstat2010.fr/ February 16–19, 2010 The European Meetings of Statisticians Deadline for contributed papers: January San José, Costa Rica cover disciplines such as mathematical sta- 10, 2010 w http://www.cimpa.ucr.ac.cr/simmac.html tistics, biostatistics, computational statistics, The COMPSTAT 2010 conference will Announcement & Call for Papers financial statistics, applied probability and include: Topics: Data Analysis, Multivariate reliability. The meetings are held under • 3 keynote lectures, given by Luc Statistics, Clustering and Classification; the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Devroye, Lutz Edler, David Hand Probability, Stochastic Processes, Financial Mathematical Statistics and Probability. • 3 tutorials given by leading experts Mathematics, Stochastic Control; The purpose of EMS 2010 is to provide on Bayesian computation methods, Optimization, Operations Research, a forum where researchers from universities Machine learning and Complex data Approximation, Numerical Analysis, throughout the world, as well as practitio- • 14 sessions of invited papers organized Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations; ners, can discuss current problems, new by the scientific programme committee Modeling, Biomathematics; Applications in approaches and future directions in the on: ABC methods for genetic data; the above topics fields of Probability and Statistics. Young Algorithm for ; Brain PARTICIPATION: Short courses (3 researchers and PhD students are especially imaging; Computational Econometrics; hours); Long (40 min) and short (20 min) invited to contribute papers. Important Computer-intensive actuarial methods; communications; or Participation only. dates and deadlines are available in the Data stream mining; Functional Data For submitting a short course or a com- webpage of the conference. Analysis; Kernel methods; Monte Carlo munication, please visit our website for Opening Lecture: Alexandre Tsybakov methods in system safety, reliability and instructions. Abstracts deadline: November (CREST and Université Paris VI, France); risk analysis; Optimization heuristics in 30, 2009. Languages: English and Spanish. Forum Lecture: Tony Cai (University of statistical modelling; Spatial statistics Send abstracts to: [email protected] Pennsylvania, USA); Closing Lecture: / spatial epidemiology; Financial Time FURTHER INFORMATION on the Simon Tavaré (Cambridge University, UK). Series (ARS session); Topological learn- website: registration, Scientific Committee, Invited speakers: Jaromir Antoch, Nicolò ing (KDD session); New developments Organizing Committee, hotel information, Cesa-Bianchi, Mark Podolskij, Dimitris in two or higher- clustering; model excursions, and other useful information. Politis, Markus Reiss, , based clustering and reduction for high CONTACTS: Javier Trejos (Chair) and Tomasz Schreiber. dimensional data (IFCS session) [email protected]; Mario Villalobos • contributed papers (oral and poster (Webmaster) [email protected] presentations) 22 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

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Canada: Waterloo, ON Taiwan: Taipei City University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Academia Sinica Institute of Statistical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a Science: Regular Research Positions limited-term position (two years) as a Lecturer in Actuarial Science. Applicants with a The Institute of Statistical Science, PhD degree are preferred, although those with a Master’s degree will also be considered Academia Sinica, is seeking outstanding seriously. Candidates must be committed to excellence in teaching. Successful applicants candidates for regular research positions may be eligible for reappointment to a second term, and those demonstrating outstanding available in 2010, contingent upon performance in teaching and service may be considered for an ongoing appointment as administrative approval. Candidates will a Continuing Lecturer. Professional actuarial qualifications and experience, although not be considered in all areas of Statistics. strictly necessary, would be a distinct asset. The closing date for applications is January 31, Appointments will be considered at the 2010. level of assistant, associate or full research Please submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be fellow, depending on qualifications and sent to Professor Paul Marriott, Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, experience. Candidates should have a PhD Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CANADA in statistics or related fields. Application All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent materials include residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all (1) a current curriculum vitae, qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and (2) three letters of recommendation, persons with disabilities. (3) representative publications and/or technical reports, (4) transcripts (for new PhD only), and additional supporting materials. Canada: Waterloo, ON Except for the letters of recommendation, University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science electronic submissions are encouraged. Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a Applications should be submitted to tenure-track position in Actuarial Science at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates must Search Committee, Institute of Statistical have a PhD in an area of the mathematical, statistical or actuarial sciences, and research Science, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2 interests in actuarial science. Professional actuarial qualifications and experience, although Academia Road, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, not strictly necessary, would be a distinct asset. Departmental strengths in Actuarial Science R.O.C. Fax: +886-2-27831523; E-mail: and Finance cover a wide range of topics including probabilistic and statistical modelling [email protected] in risk theory, , , solvency management and stochastic models in finance. Attn: Dr. Jeng-Min Chiou. Additional opportunities for collaboration at UW can occur through the Centre for Applications should be completed by Advanced Studies in Finance (www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ACCT/finance/casf.htm), the Waterloo December 31, 2009 for full consideration. Research Institute in Insurance, Securities, and Quantitative Finance (WATRISQ) (http:// www.watrisq.uwaterloo.ca/), and the Business Industrial Research Group (www.bisrg. uwaterloo.ca/). Applicants must have proven ability in or potential for research, in addition to good teaching and communication skills. Duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, and the development of an independent research program. The salary offered will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The closing date for applications is January 31, 2010. Please submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to Professor Paul Marriott, Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CANADA All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities.

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Canada: Waterloo, ON University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a tenure-track position in Biostatistics at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Successful candidates will have a strong record in the development of statistical methods and enthusiasm and experience in collaborative health research. Duties will include undergraduate teaching in statistical methods for health research and graduate student supervision. Candidates should hold a doctoral degree in Statistics or Biostatistics. The position is available effective July 1, 2010, but the starting time is negotiable. Opportunities for collaborative public health research within the University of Waterloo are extensive and may involve faculty in Health Studies and Gerontology, the School of Optometry, the Population Health Research Group, the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics, and others. Many opportunities for collaborative research also exist with nearby health research institutions. The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo is among the most active departments in the world with over 45 full time faculty and 152 graduate students. Departmental strengths in Statistics and Biostatistics cover a wide range of topics including methods for the analysis of longitudinal and life history data, cluster randomized studies, data mining, , , survey methods, clinical trials, foundations in statistics, and interdisciplinary collaborative work. Interested candidates with a strong track record or potential in research and teaching are encouraged to apply for these positions. The salary offered will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The closing date for applications is January 31, 2010. Please submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to Professor Paul Marriott, Chair Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CANADA All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The : Kowloon University of Waterloo encourages applica- tions from all qualified individuals, includ- THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ing women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. Department of Mathematics Faculty Position(s) The Department of Mathematics invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in all areas of mathematics, including one position in Risk Management. Other things being equal, preference will be given to areas consistent with the Department’s strategic planning. A PhD degree with strong experience in research and teaching is required. Applicants with exceptionally strong qualifi cations and experience in research and teaching may be considered for positions above the Assistant Professor rank. Starting rank and salary will depend on qualifi cations and experience. Fringe benefi ts include medical/dental benefi ts and annual leave. Housing will also be provided where applicable. Initial appointment will be on a three-year contract, renewable subject to mutual agreement. A gratuity will be payable upon successful completion of contract. Applications received on or before 31 December 2009 will be given full consideration for appointment in 2010. Applications received afterwards will be considered subject to availability of positions. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and at least three research references and one teaching reference to the Human Resources Offi ce, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (Fax (852) 2358 0700). Applicants for positions above the Assistant Professor rank should send a curriculum vitae and the names of at least three research referees to the Human Resources Offi ce. More information about the University is available on the University’s homepage at http://www.ust.hk. (Information provided by applicants will be used for recruitment and other employment related purposes.)

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Canada: Vancouver, BC United States: Chicago, IL University of British Columbia, Department of Statistics Illinois Institute of Technology Tenure-Track Instructor I Tenure-Track Faculty http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6196562 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=5989377

France: Paris/Cergy United States: Worcester, MA ESSEC Business School Worcester Polytechnic Institute Permanent Position in Statistics or Econometrics Tenure-Track Assistant Professor http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6139081 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6153172

Sweden: Linköping United States: Boston, MA Linköping University, Sweden Boston University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Professor Assistant Professor http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6138618 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6046071

Switzerland: Lausanne United States: Minneapolis, MN Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) University of Minnesota, School of Statistics Postdoctoral/Doctoral Positions in Statistics/Applied Probability at Assistant professor EPFL http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6058863 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6195766 United States: Ithaca, NY Taiwan: Taipei Cornell University Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica Visiting Faculty Regular Research Positions http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6171808 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=5932435 United States: Ithaca, NY Taiwan: Taipei Cornell University National Taiwan University, Department of Mathematics NSF Postdoctoral Positions Open rank professor and post doc http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6090319 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6034335 United States: Athens, OH United Kingdom: Oxford Ohio University Department of Mathematics Department of Statistics, Assistant Professor of Statistics/Actuarial Science or Mathematics University Lecturer in Statistics in association with Jesus College Education http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6203143 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6183922

United States: Tempe, AZ United States: Pittsburgh, PA School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics Tenure/Tenure-Track Tenure-track, lecturer, and visiting faculty http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6191624 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6045785

United States: Chicago, IL United States: Philadelphia, PA DePaul University, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Director of Graduate Programs Faculty position at any level http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6144544 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6133167

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United States: Columbia, SC United States: Knoxville, TN University of South Carolina The University of Tennessee Department of Statistics Department of Mathematics Assistant and Associate Professor Positions The Department of Mathematics of The University of Tennessee The Department of Statistics at the seeks to fill one tenure-track Assistant Professor position in University of South Carolina invites Probability. A PhD or equivalent degree is required. Outstanding applications for three tenure-track faculty research promise and dedication to excellent teaching are para- positions. Two of these positions are at the mount. Some postdoctoral experience is desirable, though not rank of Assistant Professor, while the other position could be up to required. Employment begins August 1, 2010. the rank of Associate Professor. Applicants should arrange to have a curriculum vita, at least Applicants for the Assistant Professor positions must have three letters of recommendation, a research statement (including strong potential for excellence in research and teaching, while future plans and abstracts of finished papers), and evidence of applicants for the Associate Professor position must have excellent quality teaching. These documents can be submitted any of the research and teaching credentials. following ways: The department currently consists of ten tenure-track faculty (1) electronically at http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs (preferred), and three full time instructors. We encourage applications in any (2) by e-mail to [email protected], specialty area of statistics which will enhance or complement our (3) by mail to Probability Search, Department of Mathematics, current expertise (see www.stat.sc.edu/research/). Individuals having The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0612. a PhD in statistics with research focus in econometrics/actuarial Review of applications will begin December 1, 2009 and will science or in areas applicable to the University’s research initiatives continue until the position is filled. in bioinformatics or nanotechnology are also encouraged to apply. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee is seeking Appointments will commence August 2010. For full consid- candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways eration, applications for Assistant Professor must be received by to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University. For more December 1, 2009 while applications for Associate Professor must information about the University and Department of Mathematics be received by January 4, 2010. Curriculum vita, at least three please see our websites at http://www.utk.edu and http://www.math. letters of reference, and a copy of graduate transcripts (for the utk.edu. Assistant Professor level) are required. Materials should be sent to: The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title Faculty Search Committee IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its c/o Ms. Tina Ormenisan education and employment programs and services. All qualified Department of Statistics applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without University of South Carolina regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, Columbia, SC 29208 marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or USA mental disability, or covered veteran status. Inquiries about these positions should be sent to Professor Edsel A. Peña, Chair of the Faculty Search Committee, using the e-mail address [email protected]. The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.

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United States: Durham, NC United States: Clemson, SC Duke University Department of Statistical Science Clemson University, Department of Mathematical Sciences The Department of Statistical Science invites applications for Tenure Track Faculty Position faculty appointment at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6203170 Fall 2010. Preference will be given to candidates whose core statisti- cal science research interests are complemented with collaborative United States: Denton, TX research interest in systems biology, neurosciences, social sciences, University of North Texas, Mathematics Department or environmental science. Assistant Professor The Department of Statistical Science is an internationally http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6165162 recognized center of excellence for research and education in the development and application of contemporary statistical methodol- United States: San Antonio, TX ogy. Particular emphasis is directed toward Bayesian modeling in Trinity University many scientific fields as well as emerging computationally intensive Chair, Department of Mathematics methods. The Department offers outstanding computational facili- http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6199643 ties and opportunities for interdisciplinary research. It currently has 14 regular rank faculty along with 14 visiting, adjunct, and post United States: San Antonio, TX doctoral faculty and 35 Ph.D. students. Trinity University The Ph.D. program as well as the Department’s research Assistant Professor of Mathematics agenda benefit from strong connections with the Statistical and http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6199636 Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), both located nearby in the United States: College Station, TX Research Triangle. A Statistical Science major, started in Fall 2007, Texas A&M University provides the primary focus of our undergraduate program. More IAMCS Post Doctoral Researcher information about the Department is available at the web site http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=5942093 http://www.stat.duke.edu. All applicants should provide a letter, curriculum vitae, per- United States: Fairfax, VA sonal statement, and the names of three references. All materials George Mason University should be submitted online at Academic Jobs Online (https:// Open Rank Faculty Appointment academicjobsonline.org/ajo). For inquiries and e-mail correspon- http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=6110170 dence please write to [email protected]. The application pool will remain open until the position is filled but screening will begin United States: Charlottesville, VA on 1 December, 2009. University of Virginia Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Staff Statistical Geneticist Biostatistician Employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly http://jobs.imstat.org/c/job.cfm?site_id=1847&jb=5637942 encouraged.

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December 2009 January 11–13: Loyola College, Chennai, India. International Conference on Statistics and Information Analytics (ICSIA 2010). December 4: Rutgers, NJ. 30 Years of Bootstrap and Recent Convenor: Dr. T. Leo Alexander e [email protected] w www. Advances in Statistics. Regina Liu e [email protected] w http:// loyolacollege.edu/icsia2010/statistics.html www.stat.rutgers.edu January 11 – July 2: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical December 7–11: Atlantic City, NJ. 65th Annual Deming Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Stochastic Processes in Communication Conference on Applied Statistics. Walter R. Young e demingchair@ Sciences programme w http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SCS/ gmail.com w www.demingconference.com index.html

December 14–16: University of Warwick, UK. Subjective Bayes January 15–16: Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida Twelfth 2009 Workshop. w http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/ Annual Winter Workshop: Categorical Data Analysis. w http:// crism/workshops/subjective_bayes www.stat.ufl.edu

December 17–19: Hong Kong. Nonlinear Time Series: Threshold January 18–20: Lunteren, . 9th Winter School on Modelling and Beyond—in honour of . w http://lx2. Mathematical Finance. w http://www.science.uva.nl/~spreij/stieltjes/ saas.hku.hk/Conference/NTS2009/ winterschool.html

December 20–23: The American University in Cairo, Egypt. ICCS- X: 10th Biennial Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical February 2010 Sciences. Zeinab Amin e [email protected] w http://www.iccs-x. org.eg February 4–5: Brussels, Belgium. Actuarial and Financial Math- ematics Conference 2010: Interplay between Finance and Insur- December 28–31: Kolkata, India. Seventh International Trien- ance. w http://www.afmathconf.ugent.be/ nial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics w http:// triennial.calcuttastatistical​association.org/SympBrochure.php February 8–11: Beer Sheva, Israel. SMRLO’10: International Symposium on Stochastic Models in , Life December 31 – January 2: Hyderabad, India. International Sciences and Operations Management. w http://info.sce.ac.il/i/ conference on Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sci- SMRLO10 ences: in honor of C.R. Rao’s 90th birthday. IMS Reps: S. Rao Jammalamadaka, S. Pantula, S. Ghosh. w http://www.stat.osu. NEW February 16–19: San José, Costa Rica. XVII International edu/~hnn/hydstatconf2010.html Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences. w http://www.cimpa.ucr.ac.cr/simmac.html

January 2010 March 2010 January 4–8: Andhra University, India. IISA Joint Statistical Meetings and International Conference on Statistics, Probability March 2–5: Leipzig University, . 9th and Related Areas. S. Rao Jammalamadaka e [email protected], Conference on Probability and Statistics. w http://www.gocps- N. Balakrishnan e [email protected], K. Srinivasa Rao e ksraoau@ leipzig2010.com/ yahoo.co.in w www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html Continues on page 28 28 . IMS Bulletin Volume 38 . Issue 10

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NEW May 20–22: Pittsburgh, PA. Statistical Analysis of Neural March 2010 continued Data (SAND5). w http://sand.stat.cmu.edu

March 11–13: Florida. Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2010 May 23–26: Québec City, Canada. 2010 SSC Annual Meeting. w http://depts/washington.edu/ssproc/ Local Arrangements: Thierry Duchesne (Laval); Program: Christian Léger (Montréal) w www.ssc.ca/main/meetings_e.html March 17–20: University of Texas at San Antonio. Frontier of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis: in honor May 26–28: Dakar, Sénégal. Conference on Applied Statistics and of James O. Berger. IMS Rep on Program Committees: Dipak K. Probability for Africa Development (ASPAD II) and Constitutive Dey. w http://bergerconference2010.utsa.edu/ Assembly of the Statistical Pan African Society (May 26, 2010, Saint-Louis, Sénégal) w http://www.statpas.org/ang/spada2.php March 21–24: Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Louisiana. 2010 ENAR/IMS Spring Meetings. IMS Program Chairs: Marie May 30 – June 1: Warwick, UK. Model Uncertainty. w TBC Davidian and Hao Helen Zhang w www.enar.org/meetings.cfm

March 23-26: Dortmund, Germany. 2nd Joint Statistical Meeting June 2010 of Statisticians DAGStat 2010 “Statistics under one umbrella” w http://www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/DAGStat2010/en/ June 3–4: University of Wisconsin, Madison. Statistical Sci- ence—Making a Difference w TBC March 25–26: Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University. Conference on methods and High Dimensional Data. June 3–6: Samos, Greece. 6th Conference in Actuarial Science & w http://www.stat.tamu.edu/Spring-Conf-2010/index.html Finance. w http://www.actuar.aegean.gr/samos2010/

July 5–7: Québec, Canada. Water2010. w http://www.water2010. April 2010 org/index.html

NEW April 11–13: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Stochastic June 5–8: Shanghai Finance University, China. 19th International Analysis and Mathematical Physics: Conference in honor of Len Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS 2010). w www1.shfc. Gross. w http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~bdriver/LGC09/index.htm edu.cn/iwms/index.asp

April 14–17: Biskra, Algeria. International Workshop on Multivari- June 13–16: Peking University, China. From Markov Pro- ate Risks and Copulas w http://www.univ-biskra.dz/manifestations/ cesses to Brownian Motion and Beyond: International Conference math/stat_2010 in Memory of Kai Lai Chung. w TBC

June 14–17: Voss, Norway. 23rd Nordic Conference on Math- May 2010 ematical Statistics (NORDSTAT 2010). w www.nordstat2010.org

May 13–15: Sardinia. AISTATS2010 (Artificial Intelligence NEW June 16–18: Padua, Italy. 45th Scientific Meeting of the and Statistics) w www.aistats.org Italian Statistical Society. w http://www.sis-statistica.it/meetings/ index.php/sis2010/sis2010 May 19–22: Columbus, Ohio. Conference on and Statistical Learning. w www.stat.osu.edu/~nssl2010/ June 20–23: Seattle, Washington. 2010 WNAR/IMS Meeting w www.wnar.org December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 29

June 21 – July 10: Seattle, Washington. PIMS 2010 Summer School Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications. w www.math.tu-dresden. in Probability w http://pims2010.web.officelive.com/default.aspx de/levy2010

NEW June 28 – July 2: Prague, Czech Republic. ICORS10. w July 27–31: Tomar, Portugal. LinStat2010. Francisco Carvalho: http://icors2010.karlin.mff.cuni.cz t +351 249 328 100; f +351 249 328 186; e [email protected] w www.linstat2010.ipt.pt June 29 – July 1: Palmerston North, . International Conference on Probability Distributions and Related Topics July 28–30: Seattle, Washington. From Probability to Statistics and in conjunction with NZSA Conference. w http://nzsa_cdl_2010. Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes Conference w massey.ac.nz/ http://www.stat.washington.edu/events/jaw-conf-2010/index.html

July 31–August 5: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 2010 JSM2010. w www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010/

July 5–8: Madrid, Spain. 5th International Workshop in Applied Probability, IWAP 2010 w http://www.fundacion.uc3m.es/ August 2010 IWAP2010/ August 8–13: Maresias, Brazil. 7th Conference on Multivariate July 5–9: Slovenia. ISBIS-2010, International Symposium for Distributions with Applications w http://www.ime.usp.br/~mda Business & Industrial Statistics. Contact Milena Zeithamlova e [email protected] w www.action-m.com/isbis2010 August 9–13: Gothenburg, Sweden. IMS Annual Meeting 2010. w www.ims-gothenburg.com NEW July 6–8: Leeds, UK. LASR 2010: High-Throughput Sequencing, Proteins and Statistics. e [email protected] August 13–17: Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India. w http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2010/ Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes [Satellite to ICM2010] w http://www.isibang.ac.in/~statmath/icmprobsat/ July 11–16: Ljubljana, Slovenia. ICOTS08: Data and context in : towards an evidence-based society. w http:// August 17–18: Hyderabad, India. ICWM 2010: International icots8.org/ Conference of Women Mathematicians [Satellite to ICM2010] w http://www.icm2010.org.in/icwm2010.php July 12-23: SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC. 2010 Summer Program on Semiparametric : Applications in NEW August 17–22: University of Piraeus, Greece. European Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics w http://www.samsi. Meeting of Statisticians 2010. w http://stat.unipi.gr/ems2010 info/programs/2010bayes-summer-program.shtml August 19–27: Hyderabad, India. International Congress of July 18–31: Ithaca, NY. 6th Cornell Probability Summer Mathematicians 2010. Program Committee Chair: Prof. Hendrik School. w tba W. Lenstra, Leiden University e [email protected]

July 20–23: Leicester, UK. Accuracy 2010: International Spatial NEW August 22-27: Paris, France. COMPSTAT 2010: 19th Accuracy Research Association (ISARA) Ninth International Sym- International Conference on Computational Statistics. w http:// posium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and www.compstat2010.fr/ Environmental Sciences w http://www.accuracy2010.org/

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August 2010 continued August 30 – September 3: Prague, Czech Republic. Prague July 30 – August 4: Miami Beach, Florida. IMS Annual Stochastics 2010. e [email protected] Meeting at JSM2011. w www.utia.cas.cz/pragstoch2010

July 2012 September 2010 July 29 – August 2: San Diego, California. JSM2012. September 6–10: Osaka, Japan. 34th Stochastic Processes and their Applications. w http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/ July/August [dates TBA]: İstanbul, Turkey. IMS Annual Meeting 2012 in conjunction with 8th World Congress in September 8–16: Erice, Sicily, Italy. Stochastic Methods in Probability and Statistics. Game Theory. w http://space.luiss.it/stochastic-workshop/

NEW September 29 – October 2: São Pedro do Sul, Portugal. August 2013 XVIII Annual Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society w http://www.mat.uc.pt/~spe2010 August 3–8: Montréal, Canada. IMS Annual Meeting at JSM2013.

December 2010 August 2014 December 19–22: Guangzhou University, Guang-Zhou, China. 2010 ICSA International Conference. w tba August 2–7: Boston, MA. JSM2014.

January 2011

January 5–7: Snowbird, UT. MCMSki III: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Theory and Practice w http://madison.byu.edu/ mcmski/

March 2011 Are we missing something? If you know of March 20–23: 2011 ENAR/IMS Hyatt Regency Miami, FL. any statistics or probability meetings which Spring Meetings. w http://www.enar.org/meetings.cfm aren’t listed here, please let us know. Email the details to Elyse Gustafson at erg@imstat. July 2011 org. We’ll list them here in the Bulletin, and online too, at July 11–22: Ithaca, NY. 7th Cornell Probability Summer School. w tba www.imstat.org/meetings December . 2009 IMS Bulletin . 31

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