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SPONSORED BY IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 16th, 2012 Early registration: May 4th, 2012 Istanbul is a vibrant, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan city bridging Europe and Asia. It has a unique F‹GÜR cultural conglomeration of east and CONGRESS & ORGANIZATION west, offering many cultural and touristic attractions, such as Hagia CONGRESS & ORGANIZATION Sophia, Sultanahmet, Topkap› e-mail: [email protected] Palace and Maiden's Tower. NAMED LECTURES PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anestis ANTONIADIS Adrian BADDELEY, University of Western Australia Dear Colleagues, University Joseph Fourier Vladimir BOGACHEV, Moscow State University LAPLACE LECTURE Krzysztof BURDZY, University of Washington The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be in Peter GREEN T. Tony CAI, University of Pennsylvania University of Bristol Elvan CEYHAN, Koç University Istanbul from July 9 to 14, 2012. It is jointly organized by the BERNOULLI LECTURE Probal CHAUDHURI, Indian Statistical Institute Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Steffen LAURITZEN Mine ÇA⁄LAR, Koç University Scheduled every four years, this meeting is a major worldwide event University of Oxford Erhan ÇINLAR, Princeton University WALD LECTURE for statistics and probability, covering all its branches, including Anthony DAVISON, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics Yves LE JAN Rick DURRETT, Duke University and probability, and stochastic processes. It features the latest Université Paris-Sud Arnoldo FRIGESSI, University of Oslo DOOB LECTURE scientific developments in these fields. Alice GUIONNET, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Pascal MASSART Peter GLYNN, Stanford University Université de Paris Peter GUTTORP, University of Washington The program will cover a wide range of topics in statistics and LECAM LECTURE Onésimo HERNÁNDEZ, Instituto Politécnico Nacional probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art Stas SMIRNOV Dmitry IOFFE, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in a variety of modern research topics, with in-depth sessions on Université de Genève Sushmita MITRA, Indian Statistical Institute KOLMOGOROV LECTURE applications of these disciplines to other sciences, industrial Shige PENG, Shandong University innovation and society. It will feature several special plenary lectures Maria Eulália VARES Dominique PICARD, Université Paris VII presented by leading specialists. In addition, there will be many Brazilian Center for Research in Physics Kavita RAMANAN, Brown University LÉVY LECTURE invited sessions highlighting topics of current research interests, Sylvia RICHARDSON, Imperial College as well as a large number of contributed sessions and posters. Bin YU Vladas SIDORAVICIUS, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Instituto University of California Berkeley Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada TUKEY LECTURE Michael SØRENSEN, University of Copenhagen The venue of the meeting is Grand Cevahir Hotel & Convention MEDALLION LECTURES Matthew STEPHENS, University of Chicago Center located in Istanbul. On behalf of the Program Committee Guenther WALTHER, Stanford University and the Local Organizing Committee, we invite you to join us in Sourav CHATTERJEE University of California, Berkeley Victor YOHAI, Universidad de Buenos Aires Istanbul for this exciting scientific event. Your participation will Nakahiro YOSHIDA, University of Tokyo ensure that the 2012 World Congress will be a memorable meeting. Nicole EL KAROUI Thaleia ZARIPHOPOULOU, The University of Texas at Austin Ecole Polytechnique Elvan CEYHAN and Mine ÇA⁄LAR Franco FLANDOLI Università di Pisa LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee Alexandre TSYBAKOV Fikri AKDEN‹Z, Çukurova University Université Paris VI Elvan CEYHAN, Koç University (Co-chair) Arnoldo FRIGESSI Van VU Mine ÇA⁄LAR, Koç University (Co-chair) Chair of the Program Committee Rutgers University Ülkü GÜRLER, Bilkent University ﬁennur ONUR, Turkish Statistical Institute PUBLIC LECTURE Süleyman ÖZEK‹C‹, Koç University Peter DIGGLE Semih SEZER, Sabancı University Lancaster University Fetih YILDIRIM, Çankaya University.

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