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ISI99 Daily Bulletin 5 ISI99 Daily Bulletin 5 Friday 13 August, 1999 Contents Remember your ticket Please remember to take your concert ticket with you tonight. Unfortunately, no one without a ticket will be allowed in. • General Assemply 2 The concert has been one of the most popular events in the Social Programme. The organisers are very sorry that all interested • Changes in the programme 3 participants could not obtain a ticket due to the limited availability of seats in the Temppeliaukio church. • Behing the scenes and in the frontline 4 You can ask if any tickets have become available due to cancellations at the Registration Desk. • International Association for Statistical Computing, IASC 4 • Pricing of statistical journals 5 Excursion to Suomenlinna • In my experience 6 The excursion to the Suomenlinna fortress on Saturday afternoon will comprise some walking in the open air, partly on cobbled • ISI Marco Polo Committee on alleys. This is the time to wear your most comfortable pair of shoes. The weather has been rather unstable during the week, so Statistics of Travel and Tourism COSTT 7 please remember also to take an umbrella or a raincoat with you (one has been supplied in the Conference pags). • The Committee on Women in Statistics... 7 • Statistical Education 7 • Young virtuosi in concert tonight 8 • ISI in the media 9 • The church in the rock 10 • Sibelius, the sound of Finland 11 • Festivals in the forests 12 • An enviable minority 13 • Pääsy kielletty 14 • Photographs 14 • Something for the sweet tooth 15 • Children`s Helsinki 16 The IASS General Assembly In the description of the IASS in yesterday’s Daily Bulletin there was an unfortunate misprint stating that the IASS General Assembly and a silver jubilee would have taken place yesterday. Both o Mikkonen occasions will be on Monday 16 August. Eer ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Friday, August 13 / 5 1 General Assembly Today at 15:30 the ISI General Assembly will take place in the main Congress and Concert Hall. Please take note of the following Agenda: International Statistical Institute Meeting of the General Assembly Helsinki, Finland Friday August 13, 15:30 – 17:45 1. Welcome and Minute of Silence 10. Presentation of Winners of the Jan Tinbergen Awards and 2. Announcement of 2 Member Auditors Cochran-Hansen Prize 3. Executive Committee Report 11. Future Sessions of ISI 4. Financial Report 12. Video Presented by 53rd Session Hosts 5. Member Auditors Report 13. Reports by the Presidents of Sections 6. Announcement of the Election of Officers and Council 14. Report by the Chairman of the Publications Committee 7. Composition of the Nominations Committee 15. Report of Programme Committee of the 52nd Session 8. Announcement of Membership Elections 16. Cafeteria System Announcement 9. Presentation of ISI Service Medals 17. Closing L’ Assemblée Générale Aujourd’hui, à 15 h 30, l’assemblée générale de l’IIS se tiendra dans le grand auditorium, salle 1F/CH. Veuillez noter ci-après l’ordre du jour: Institut International de Statistique Réunion de l’Assemblée Générale Helsinki, Finlande Vendredi 13 août, de 15 h 15 à 17 h 30. 1. Accueil et minute de silence 10. Présentation des lauréats des prix Jan Tinbergen et 2. Annonce des deux membres désignés comme commissaires Cochran-Hansen aux comptes 11. Futures sessions de l’IIS 3. Rapport du Comité exécutif 12. Présentation vidéo par l’hôte de la 53e session 4. Rapport financier 13. Rapports des présidents de sessions 5. Rapport des commissaires aux comptes 14. Rapport du président du Comité des publications 6. Proclamation des élections des dirigeants et du Conseil 15. Rapport du Comité des programmes de la 52e session 7. Composition du Comité des nominations 16. Annonce du système « à la carte ». 8. Proclamation des élections de membres 17. Clôture 9. Remise des médailles de service de l’IIS 2 5 / Friday, 13 August / Daily Bulletin / ISI99 Changes in the programme Please check the full Kroonenberg and Claus IPM12 on “Whither statistical Wednesday, 18 August programme of meetings where Andersson will be given in the publishing?”, scheduled on In IPM62, at 9.00, Joan Garfield changes have occurred at the reverse order. Mr Andersson Tuesday 17 August at 13.00, has cancelled her appearance. door of the meeting room in will speak at 9.04, and Mr has been cancelled. The chairperson and question. Kroonenberg at 9.39. introductory speaker will be Some names of the speakers of Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Today In IPM36, Nick Fisher IPM 42 “Statistical training of FINLAND. In CPM46.1, at 9.00 , a new (AUSTRALIA) will be chair and people working in and with presentation is scheduled at presenter of the introduction. official statistics” have been A new meeting, IPM84, 10.45, ”Estimation of Mean The presentation of Corinna omitted by mistake in the President’s Invited Paper Square Error in Multi-stage Cortes (UNITED STATES), Information Bulletin No 3. The Meeting on “Recent advances Sampling” by Kyuseong Kim. scheduled at 16.30, has been meeting is to be held at 13.00 - in probability and statistics”, cancelled. 15.15. These should be added: will be held at 13.00 - 15.15 in The meeting of the Agricultural meeting room EL/136. The Statistics Committee (Gregor A new presentation for As organisers: organiser is Willem van Zwet, Mendel Committee), originally CPM104.1 at 11.00: Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITED the speakers will be scheduled for Monday 16 ”Demographic situation in STATES August at 11.15, has been Russia and problems of Jef Teugels advanced to Friday, 13 August, information on population” by Smulders, René H. M., Wind and Stochastics 11.15 to meeting room 1F/1. Andrei G. Volkov (RUSSIA). THE NETHERLANDS Elja Arjas Latent structures supported The following presentation has New item for CPM81: at 17.00, As chairpersons: by point measurements been advanced from CPM16.1 “Intervalle de confiance de Blumberg, Carol Joyce, David Siegmund (Monday 16 August) to l’indice de végétation, de UNITED STATES Mapping quantitative trait CPM136, today at 10.30: l’indice de brillance et de la Smulders, René H. M., loci ”Bayes factors and model matière séche totalle” by THE NETHERLANDS Richard Tweedie selection for random effect Abdellani, F. and Chamayou, J. Publication analysis in meta- models” by Sylvia Frühwirth- F. (FRANCE). Papers: 13.25 Impact of analysis Schnatter (AUSTRIA). Internet on official statistics: In CPM70, the presentation User opportunities In IPM20, at 13.00 - 15.15, the Saturday, 14 August scheduled 13.45 ”Availability of * Bregar, Lea; Ograjensek, Irena discussant Bertrand S. Clarke In the CPM73.1, the paper of repairable systems governed by (SLOVENIA) from UK, has cancelled his Patrick D. Bourke, scheduled at semi-Markov processes” by presentation. 9.00, has been cancelled. Rafael Pérez-Ocón (SPAIN) and A new presentation for CPM58, Inmaculada Torres-Castro has starting at 15.30, will be heard In CPM132, at 13.00 - 15.15, In IPM74, at 9.00, the been cancelled. at 17.15: Comparison of the paper “Reseaux de introduction will be given by Predictive Accuracy of Neural neurones et regression Denise Lievesley (FRANCE) Tuesday, 17 August Network Methods and Cox logistique en finances” by Ana instead of Mary H.Regier. In CPM134, the paper Regression for Censored Silvia Haedo (ARGENTINA) and “Generalised kernel density Survival Data, by Stanley Azen Leonardo Focsaner has been The following presentation has estimator” by Novak, Serguei (UNITED STATES); Annie Xiang; cancelled. been moved from CPM132 to (NETHERLANDS), scheduled at Pablo Lapuerta; Alex Ryutov CPM11.2, scheduled at 11.00: 9.30, has been cancelled. and Jonathan Buckley. In CPM86, scheduled at 15.30, ”An iterative algorithm for the chairperson will be Paul learning by support vector The following presentation has An addition to CPM130, Sommerville. machine. The pattern been moved from CPM5.1 to starting at 15.30: Operational recognition case” by Cornelia CPM7.1, scheduled at 10.45: estimation of the Russian GDP In CPM38, scheduled at 15.30, Enachescu (ROMANIA) and ”Some remarks and dynamics, by Andrey Kosarev. the presentation of Filzmoser, Denis Enachescu. misunderstandings in multiple The presentation is scheduled Peter (AUSTRIA) has been comparisons methods” by at 17.15. cancelled. Monday, 16 August Cheslaw Domanski (POLAND), In IPM18, “Multiway data in Dariusz Parys and Lechoslaw In CPM30, the presentation of psychometrics and Stepien. Y Wu (CANADA), scheduled at chemonetrics”, to be held at 15.30, has been cancelled. 9.00, the talks of Pieter ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Friday, August 13 / 5 3 Behind the scenes and in the frontline, part 4 This is the last part of the presentation of the members of the Executive Secretariat and some other people who have contributed to the conference preparations. The previous parts have been published in issues 1-2, 3 and 4 of the Daily Bulletin. Eero Paananen Kauko Hämäläinen, 54 Pasi Apajalahti, 39 As Co-ordinator of Information Kauko’s motto is “Virtually, I do Pasi, who is responsible for Technology at the conference, not work, I network”, which logistics at the conference, is Eero is responsible for the also describes his job. At the ISI Head of Security and Office, Internet services and IT Session, he is responsible for Telephone and Postal Services equipment. After graduating the communications of the at Statistics Finland. He is a from the Helsinki University of workstations at the Finlandia sociologist by education. Technology, he has been Hall, including the Internet Pasi’s principal hobby is golf, working in various IT duties at connections. At Statistics he has a handicap of 14. As far Statistics Finland for more than Finland, he heads the unit as music, films or books are 30 years. His present formal job responsible for data concerned, he has no title is Chief Information connections, including servers.
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