ISI - International Statistical Institute Newsletter Volume 24, No. 1 (70) 2000
Overview of the Organisation
The host body of the 53rd ISI Session — Seoul 2001 consists of the Honorary Committee, the National Organizing Committee (NOC), and the Session Patrons.
The Honorary Committee will be finalised in June 2000, possibly headed by the President of the Republic of Korea, Kim Dae-jung.
The Korean National Statistical Office (KNSO) is mainly responsible for the preparatory work for the Seoul Session.
National Organising Committee (NOC)
The NOC is composed of representatives from the relevant ministries of the Korean government, statistical organisations and institutes, the city of Seoul, and many other influential bodies. It consists of a Council, an Executive Committee, an Executive Secretariat, and a Local Programme Committee. The members of the Council and the Executive Committee will be named in June 2000.
Council
chairman Mr. Young-Dae Yoon, Commissioner, Korean National Statistical Office (KNSO)
Executive Committee
chairman Mr. Bhun Nam, Director-General, Statistical Planning and Management Bureau, KNSO
Executive Secretariat
chief Mr. Bong-Ho Choi, Director, International Affairs Division, KNSO
assistant chief Mr. Jong-Joon Ryu, Assistant Director, International Affairs Division, KNSO
members Mr. Young-Tae Son
Mr. Ho-Kwan Lee
Mr. Hee-Jong Kim
Ms. Jin-Hee Kim
Local Programme Committee
chairman Prof. Jae-Chang Lee, Korea University
secretaries Ms. Irene Lee and Ms. Yeon-Ju Kim
members Prof. Joong-Kweon Sohn, Kyungpook National University
Prof. Myung-Hoe Huh, Korea University
Prof. Hae-Jung Kim, Dongguk University
Prof. Jae-June Lee, Inha University
Prof. Sin-Sup Cho, Seoul National University
Prof. Yong-Goo Lee, Chungang University
Prof. Tae-Rim Lee, Korea National Open University
Prof. Dong-Ho Park, Hallym University
Prof. Jaiwook-Baik, Korea National Open University
Prof. Byung-Soo Kim, Yonsei University
Prof. Kwan-Jeh Lee, DonggUK University
Prof. Seung-Wook Lee, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University
Prof. Jung-Jin Lee, Soongsil University
Prof. Kay-O Lee, Korea Air Force Academy
Prof. Myoung-Shic Jhun, Korea University
Prof. Pyong Namkung, Sungkyunkwan University
Prof. Suk-Hoon Lee, Chungnam National University
Prof. Jung-Soo Woo, Yeungnam University
Mr. Bong-Ho Choi, Director, International Affairs Division, KNSO
Contact Information
National Organising Committee
contact Mr. Bong-Ho Choi, Director, International Affairs Division
address National Statistical Office, Government Complex
#920, Dunsan-dong, So-gu
TAEJON 302-701, Republic of Korea
telephone +82-42-481 2095
fax +82-42-481 2465
E-mail isi2001@nso.go.kr
bongho.choi@nso.go.kr
website http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001/index.html
Local Programme Committee
contact Prof. Jae-Chang Lee
address Seoul Office of 53rd ISI Session
Seoul Local Branch Office, National Statistical Office
#71 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam-gu
SEOUL 135-010, Republic of Korea
telephone +82-2-3444 5368
fax +82-2-3444 5369
E-mail isi2001@nso.go.kr
jaeclee@nso.go.kr
Professional Conference Organiser (PCO)
On 25th January 2000, the NOC has chosen two PCO’s as the final candidates amongst a short list of five reputable PCO’s. In early February, one of the aforementioned PCO’s will be chosen to be the conference-supporting agency for the 53rd Session. This will be announced shortly.
Further Information
The Official Invitation to attend the 53rd Session of the ISI will be mailed out to the members of the ISI and its five Sections at end of March 2000. At the same time, it will be delivered to many potential participants of international and national statistical organisations.
Preliminary registration takes place from October to December 2000. Forms for preliminary registration will be attached to the Bulletin #1 that will be delivered to the members of ISI and its five Sections as well as to the international organisations and associations in September 2000.
Venue
The 53rd Session will be held at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX), which is to be completed in March 2000. With state-of-the-art equipment and communications facilities, multimedia, lighting, and audio/visual systems, it will be fully capable of hosting large-scale international conferences. As Asia's largest and most modern convention and exhibition center, it will feature a 6,000-seat convention hall, and a 1,100-seat auditorium, besides many additional rooms of various sizes.
The COEX venue is an ideal place to hold an international conference, with easy access to public transportation, including a subway station right at its doorstep. Also, the City Air Terminal on its premises offers the same services that are available at Kimpo International Airport such as reservations, ticketing, seat assignment, boarding pass issuance, baggage check-in, etc.
Invitation to attend the 53rd ISI Session
In March 2000, all ISI and ISI Section members will be receiving a copy of the special invitation and information brochure that has kindly been prepared by the Session organizers.
Scientific Programme
The scientific programme for the 53rd ISI Session — Seoul 2001 is developed by the Programme Committees of the ISI and each of its five Sections.
The ISI Programme Committee consists of Richard Gill (Chairman/UK), Jae Chang Lee (Vice-Chairman/Korea), Jef Teugels (Standby-Chair/Belgium), Fred Vogel (USA), Bo Bergman (Sweden), Murray Cameron (Australia), Anil Gore (India), and Tom Louis (USA).
Suggestions from the ISI Programme Committee and the five Section Programme Committees are combined and a final selection of the topics is conducted by the ISI Programme Coordinating Committee whose members are: Richard Gill (Chairman/UK); Jae Chang Lee (Vice-Chairman/Korea); for IAOS: Ada van Krimpen (The Netherlands); for IASC: Carey Priebe (USA); for IASE: Lionel Pereira-Mendoza (Canada); for IASS: David Binder (Canada); for Bernoulli Society: Nick Fisher (Australia).
The Programme Committees worked before and during the Helsinki Session and produced a tentative programme of invited paper meetings. The Committees made every effort to strike a balance between general and specialized subjects and to cover a broad range of important topics of current interest. The Programme Committees did this by extensive interaction and by combining suggestions from several Sections.
The following listing provides an indication of the Invited Papers to be organized during the Seoul ISI Session. Each topic title is followed by the name of the respective organiser(s), their nationality and their E-mail address. In addition to this list, there will be additional meetings (approximately ten) to be organised by guest organisations and sister societies, and a tutorial meeting on a topic of current interest.
| Invited Papers | ||
| Topic | Organiser(s) | E-mail address |
| Internet — Network management and engineering performance | Leslie Goldberg, UK | leslie@dcs.warwick.ac.UK |
| Statistics in bioinformatics | Charles E. Lawrence, USA | lawrence@wadsworth.org |
| Perfect simulation | J. Fill, USA | jimfill@jhu.edu |
| Spatial statistical modeling, with environmental applications | Noel Cressie, USA | ncressie@stat.ohio-state.edu |
| Clinical trials of herbal medicine | Young Jack Lee, US NIH and Hanyang Univ, Korea | lee1630@E-mail.hanyang.ac.kr |
| Large databases and medical research | To be announced | |
| Technology and statistical education | Tae Rim Lee, Korea | trlee@av9500.knou.ac.kr |
| Women's contributions to leadership in statistical education | Martha Aliaga, USA | aliaga@umich.edu |
| Quality issues in statistics | Gordon J. Brackstone, Canada | bracgor@statcan.ca |
| Combining data from different sources | Tim Holt, UK | tholt@ons.gov.UK |
| The role of official statistics in university curricula | To be announced | |
| Education and the internet & effective structures for the net | Brian Phillips, Australia | bphillips@swin.edu.au |
| Internet and innovative data dissemination | To be announced | |
| Internet data collection | Warren Mitofsky, USA | mitofsky@mindspring.com |
| Disclosure control and data access | Luigi Biggeri, Italy | biggeri@ds.unifi.it |
| Multiple frame surveys | Alvaro Gonzalez-Villalobos | A.GonzalezVillalobos@fao.org |
| Measurement of E-commerce | Paul Cheung, Singapore | Paul_CHEUNG@SINGSTAT.gov.sg |
| Robust inference and model building | Elvezio Ronchetti, Switzerland | Elvezio.Ronchetti@metri.unige.ch |
| Recent advances in survival analysis | Winfried Stute, Germany | winfried.stute@math.uni-giessen.de |
| Concentration inequalities and information theory | Paul Shields, USA | pshield2@uoft02.utoledo.edu |
| Hidden Markov chains | Timo Koski, Sweden | timo@math.kth.se |
| Statistics for spatial and spatial-temporal processes | Adrian Baddeley, Australia | adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au |
| Martingale methods in financial modelling | Marek Musiela, Australia | musiela@maths.unsw.EDU.AU |
| Functional data analysis | J. O. Ramsay, Canada | ramsay@ramsay2.psych.mcgill.ca |
| Analysis of high-dimensional data | David Rocke, USA | dnricje@ucdavis.edu |
| Topics in probability theory | Paul Dupuis, USA | dupuis@cfm.brown.edu |
| Statistical physics methods and combinatorial optimization | Joseph Yukich, USA | jey0@lehigh.edu |
| Analysis of online monitoring data | Wolfgang Schmid, Germany | schmid@euv-frankfurt-o.de |
| Statistics in information retrieval | Jung Jin Lee, Korea | jjlee@stat.soongsil.ac.kr |
| Monte Carlo filtering | Dominic Lee, Singapore | ldominic@dso.org.sg |
| Interactive graphical data analysis / statistical visualization | Todd Ogden, USA | ogden@math.sc.edu |
| Statistical methods for intrusion detection | D.J. Marchette, USA | dmarche@nswc.navy.mil |
| Computational issues in nonparametric Bayes | Lancelot James, USA | james@mts.jhu.edu |
| Statistical image analysis: Human brain mapping | Dan Naiman, USA | dan@mts.jhu.edu |
| Non- and semiparametric smoothing regression | Michael Schimek, Austria | schimek@gsf.de |
| Simulation from complicated multivariate distributions | Ehsan Soofi, USA and Iran | esoofi@csd.uwm.edu |
| Optimization techniques in statistics | Yadolah Dodge, Switzerland | yadolah.dodge@seco.unine.ch |
| Forum: IASE and statistics education in developing countries | Maria-Gabriella Ottaviani, Italy | ottavian@pow2.sta.uniroma1.it |
| Undergraduate level statistics programmes | Shen Shir Ming, Hong Kong, China | HRNTSSM@hkucc.hku.hk |
| The future of statistics education research | Joan Garfield, USA | jbg@maroon.tc.umn.edu |
| Research on teaching statistics at school and university levels | Susan Starkings, UK | starkisa@sbu.ac.UK |
| Undergraduate statistics education in non-statistics degree programmes | Elisabeth Svenssen, Sweden | eliss@math.chalmers.se |
| Continuing statistics education in the workplace | Carol Blumberg, USA | wncarolj@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU |
| Postgraduate training of statisticians | Gilberte Schuyten, Belgium | Gilberte.Schuyten@rug.ac.be |
| Official statistics in government decentralisation | Pilar Martin-Guzman, Spain | pmguzman@ine.es |
| How to measure R&D outputs statistically? | To be announced | |
| Efficiency in technical cooperation in statistics | Tony Williams (UK) and Ronald Luttikhuizen (The Netherlands) |
t-williams@dfid.gtnet.gov.UK |
| Statistics and the mass media | Fred Ho, Hong Kong, China | fwhho@hk.net |
| Ethical issues and official statistics | Willem De Vries | devries@un.org |
| Development indicators: How to improve and harmonize them internationally | Michael Ward, UK | Mward@worldbank.org |
| SCORUS A standard regional reference system as prerequisite for internationally comparable regional statistics | Rosa Giaimo, Italy | giaimo@mbox.unipa.it |
| SCORUS: Measuring inequalities in large urban areas | Markandey Rai, India | Markandey.rai@unep.org |
| The role of survey sampling in the 21st century | Len Cook, New Zealand | lcook@stats.govt.nz |
| Response errors | Cathy Dippo, USA | dippo_c@bls.gov |
| Standardised survey interviewing: Is it a good thing? | Barbara Bailar, USA | bailar-b@norcmail.uchicago.edu |
| Linked employer-employee data | Cynthia Clark, USA | cynthia.z.f.clark@census.gov |
| Multilevel models for survey design and analysis | Chris Skinner, UK | cjs@socsci.soton.ac.UK |
| Price/production indices | Dennis Trewin, Australia | dennis.trewin@abs.gov.au |
| Edit and imputation techniques | John Kovar, Canada | kovar@statcan.ca |
| Statistics in Korea: History, role in economic development and current statistical system | To be announced | |
| Issues of risk assessment in Asian countries | Byung-Soo Kim, Korea | bskim@bubble.yonsei.ac.kr |
| Marine resource estimation | Tore Schweder, Norway | tore.schweder@econ.uio.no |
| Recent work of young Korean and Japanese probabilists | S. Ogawa, Japan | s_ogawa@t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp |
| Topics in human genetics | To be announced | |
| Sampling problems in biology and epidemiology | To be announced | |
| Noncompliance in clinical trials | To be announced | |
| Relation between biomathematical modelling and biostatistics | To be announced | |
| Spatial statistics in an agricultural environment | To be announced | |
| The role of statistical science in the assessment of air quality | To be announced | |
| Statistics for financial stability | Bart Meganck, Belgium | generalstatistics@nbb.be |
| Millenium anniversaries (Bayes, Bernoulli, Fechner) | Chris Heyde | chris@wintermute.anu.edu.au |
| Border and household surveys | Scott Meis, USA | meis.scott@ic.gc.ca |
| Six sigma strategy for quality improvement | Vijay Nair, USA | vmn@umich.edu |
| Measuring the status of women and minorities in society | Nanjamma Chinnappa, India | nach@blr.vsnl.net.in |
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