ISI - International Statistical Institute
Newsletter Volume 26, No. 1 (76) 2002

ISI 54th SESSION, BERLIN, AUGUST, 2003
DRAFT SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
INVITED PAPER MEETING TITLES, CONTACTS AND MEETING ORGANISERS
Revised 22/4/2002

The following proposals for Invited Paper meetings, contacts and meeting organisers have been accepted by the ISI Programme Committee (54th Session) for inclusion in the draft Scientific Programme:

    Contact:
1. President's invited paper meeting Dennis Trewin (Australia)
2. Celebrating 150 years of statistics since the 1853 International Statistics Congress  contact: Jean -Louis Bodin 
organiser: Jean-Louis Bodin (France)
jean-louis.bodin@adetef.finances.gouv.fr
3. Official statistics in Germany under five different political systems contact: Peter Wilrich 
organiser: Carlo Malaguerra (Switzerland)
carlo.malaguerra@bluemail.ch
4. Some German academic statisticians of the 20th century contact: Peter Wilrich
organiser: Dr Norbert Schappacher (Germany)
schappacher@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
5. Best papers from developing countries contact: Marius van Nieuwkerk
organiser: Marius van Nieuwkerk (Netherlands)
m.van.nieuwkerk@dnd.nl
6. Mixtures and applications contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Geoffrey McLachlan (Australia)
7. Nonparametric Bayesian methods contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Stephen Walker (UK)
8. Statistical challenges in genomics contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Susan Wilson (Australia)
Sue.Wilson@anu.edu.au
9. Algorithmic modelling in statistics contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Rudy Beran (USA)
beran@stat.berkeley.edu
10. High frequency financial data contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
Eric Ghysels (USA)
11. Causation and graphical models contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Phil Dawid (UK)
dawid@stats.ucl.ac.uk
12. Statistics of extremes and risk modelling contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Laurens de Haan (Netherlands)
ldehaan@few.eur.nl
13. High dimensional time series contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Marc Hallin (Belgium)
mhallin@ulb.ac.be
14. Inference under shape restrictions contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Lutz Duembgen (Switzerland)
duembgen@stat.unibe.ch
15. Stochastic analysis and applications in finance contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Hans Foellmer (Germany)
foellmer@mathematik.hu-berlin.de
16 Stochastic geometry and its statistical applications contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Wolfgang Weil (Germany)
17. Statistical methods for high dimensional data contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organisers: Sara van de Geer (Netherlands)
geer@math.leidenuniv.nl
and Hans van Houwelingen (Netherlands)
j.c.van_houwelingen@medstat.medcaf.leidenuniv.nl
18. Bioinformatics contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Elizabeth de Turkheim (France)
et@banian.jouy.inra.fr
19. Numerical methods in statistics including iterative methods for non-linear problems contact: Roger Payne
organiser: James E Gentle (USA)
jgentle@gmu.edu
20. Spatial and temporal modelling by residual maximum likelihood contact: Roger Payne
organiser: J Juritz (South Africa)
junej@mweb.co.za
21. Multivariate graphics and visualisation contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Patrick Groenen (Netherlands)
groenen@fsw.LeidenUniv.nl
22. Open statistical systems contact: Roger Payne
organiser: J Hinde (UK)
john.hinde@nuigalway.ie
23. Data mining: visualisation, application and statistification contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Adi Wilhelm (Germany)
a.wilhelm@iu-bremen.de
24. Mixed and generalised linear mixed models (Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches) contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Y Lee (South Korea)
youngjo@plaza.snu.ac.kr
25. Computer intensive methods for semiparametrics contact: Roger Payne
organiser: L Yang (USA)
yangli@wharton.upenn.edu
26. Computational statistics in the environmental sciences contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Michael Schimek (Austria)
michael.schimek@uni-graz.at
27. New challenges with future tele-surveys contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Oztas Ayhan (Turkey)
oayhan@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr
28. Data fusion, imputation, non-response contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Seppo Laaksonen (Finland)
seppo.laaksonen@stat.fi
29. Surveys in transition and developing countries contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Namjamma Chinnappa (India)
nach@blr.vsnl.net.in
30. Measuring survey quality contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Peter Lynn (UK)
31. Estimation and analysis from complex surveys using auxiliary information contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Jelke Bethlehem (Netherlands)
jbtm@cbs.nl
32. Design and analysis of evaluation studies contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Dan Kaspryzk (USA)
dkasprzyk@mathematica-mpr.com
33. Small area design and estimation contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Jan Kordos (Poland)
j.kordos@stat.gov.pl
34. Surveys of special populations contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Malati Pochun (Mauritius)
mpochun@hotmail.com
35. Multinational surveys contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Peter Wingfield-Digby (UK/Thailand)
pwdigby@loxinfo.co.th
36. IAOS forum: knowledge and competence management in national statistical offices contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser Heli Jeskanen-Sundstrom (Finland) 
Heli.Jeskanen-Sundstrom@stat.fi
37. The measurement of economic progress contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: E Giovannini (Italy)
Enrico.Giovannini@oecd.org
38. Micro data: managing the dilemma between access, privacy and confidentiality contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: Irena Krizman (Slovenia)
Irena.Krizman@gov.si
39. Managing and maintaining the independence and integrity of national statistics - experience of developed and developing countries contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: Olav Ljones (Norway)
olav.ljones@ssb.no
40. New directions in social statistics contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: R Virola (Philippines)
ra.virola@nscb.gov.ph
41. Measuring the performance of National Statistics Offices contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: Frederick W H Ho (Hong Kong, China) 
fwhho@censtatd.gov.hk
42. Intra-city differentials and their measurement issues contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: Makanday Rai (India)
markandey.Rai@unchs.org
43 Impact of migration on urban areas contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser:
Klaus Trutzel (Germany)
Klaus_trutzel@sta.stadt.nuernberg.de
44 Teaching probability with a modelling approach contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Michel Henry (France)
henry@math.univ-fcomte.fr
45. Statistical training for consultants or collaborators contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Gabriella Belli (USA)
gbelli@vt.edu
46. International co-operation in research on statistics education contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Lisbeth Cordani (Brazil)
lisbeth@maua.br
47. Mathematics teachers teaching statistics contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Susan Starkings (UK)
starkisa@sbu.ac.uk
48. Statistics education for media reports contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Maxine Pfannkuch (New Zealand) 
pfannkuch@math.auckland.ac.nz
49. Teaching and learning approaches aimed at developing statistical reasoning, thinking or literacy contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Joan Garfield (USA)
jbg@tc.umn.edu
50. Statistics teaching in the Internet age contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Wolfgang Haerdle (Germany)
haerdle@wiwi.hu.berlin.de
51. Statistics, environment and health: air, soil and water  contact: Lawrence Cox (USA)
lgc9@cdc.gov
52. The use of hedonic methods for quality-adjusted prices contact: Marius van Nieuwkerk
organiser: Bart Meganck (Belgium)
bart.meganck@cec.eu.int
53. Design and analysis of infectious disease studies contact: Nanny Wermuth
organiser: Klaus Dietz (Germany)
klaus.dietz@uni-tuebingen.de
54. Public health in developing countries - statistical problems and studies contact: Nanny Wermuth
organiser: Erica Keogh (Zimbabwe)
sucses@mail.id.co.zw
55. Probabilistic methods for risk assessment contact: Lutz Edler
organiser: Lutz Edler (Germany)
edler@dkfz-heidelberg.de
56. 21st century methodology for agricultural statistics in developing and transition economies contact: IP David
organiser: F Vogel (USA)
fvogel@nass.usda.gov
57. Statistics in engineering and advanced technology contact: Nick Fisher
organiser: Luis Escobar (Colombia)
luis@lsu.edu
58. The experience of women statisticians in professional life contact: Beverley Carlson (USA)
organiser: B Carlson (USA)
BCarlson@eclac.cl
59. Ethical issues in surveys and how they affect our society  contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Mauricio Vasconcellos (Brazil)
60. Stochastic modelling in telecommunications contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Holger Rootzen (Sweden)
rootzen@math.chalmers.se
61 Information technology and statistics contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Bin Yu (USA)
62. Quantum statistical information contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Keiji Matsumoto (Japan)
keiji@qci.jst.go.jp
63 Evolutionary biology meets functional data analysis contact: Rainer Dahlhaus
organiser: Nancy Heckmann (Canada)
nancy@stat.ubc.ca
64. Accessibility and availability of statistics through metadata contact: Roger Payne
organiser: Andrew Westlake (UK)
ajw@sasc.co.uk
65. Clustering and classification: models and algorithms contact: Hans Bock
organiser: Hans Bock (Germany)
bock@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de
66. New approaches to population censuses (a special memorial to Leslie Kish) contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Fred Smith (UK)
tmfs@maths.soton.ac.uk
67. Use of administrative data for business statistics contact: Siu-Ming Tam
organiser: Geoff Lee (Australia)
geoff.lee@abs.gov.au
68. Education and assessment of literacy, numeracy and other life skills contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Denise Lievesley (UK)
d.lievesley@unesco.org
69. Impact of developments in information systems on statistics education contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Annie Morin (France)
Annie.Morin@irisa.fr
70. Teaching biostatistics contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Elisabeth Svensson (Sweden)
elisabeth.svensson@esa.oru.se
71 Educational implications of statistical method and modelling developments in psychometry  contact: Gilberte Schuyten
organiser: Helena Bacelar (Portugal)
hbacelar@fc.ul.pt
72. Emerging methods in longitudinal data analysis  contact: Danny Pfeffermann
organiser: Marie Davidian (USA)
73. Forensic statistics and legal reasoning contact: Daniel Defays
organiser: Colin Aitken (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, UK)
cgga@maths.ed.ac.uk
74. Statistics and human rights: measuring and monitoring progress contact: Stephan Morgenthaler
organiser: to be announced
75. Quality of official statistical systems contact: Daniel Defays
Guest Society meeting: Eurostat (P. Nanopoulos) 
photis.nanopoulos@cec.eu.int
76. Gene expression data contact: Francoise Seillier Moiseiwitsch
Guest Society meeting: Institute of Mathematical Statistics 
organiser: Mike West, Duke university, US
mw@isds.duke.edu 
77. Recent statistical advances in geological and environmental applications contact: Daniel Defays
Guest Society meeting: International Association for Mathematical Geology, Geological Survey of Canada 
78. Statistical aspects of projecting populations contact: Daniel Defays
Guest Society meeting: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
lutz@iiasa.ac.at
79. Adaptive designs in clinical trials contact: Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
organiser: Dr Nancy Flournoy (USA)
flournoy@american.edu
80. Use of statistics in the financial markets contact: Peter Wilrich
organiser: Professor Stefan Mittnik (Germany) 
mittnik@stat-econ.uni-kiel.de
81 Evaluating models (macro-economic, meteorological etc) contact: Jeff Wu
organiser: Jeff Wu (USA)
jeffwu@umich.edu
82. The relation of statistics with other sciences contact: Stephan Morganthaler
organiser: Dr Ahmed Bousbaine (Algeria)
83. Statistics in music contact: Stephan Morganthaler
organiser: Jan Beran (Germany)
Jan.Beran@uni-konstanz.de
84. Evaluating tourism satellite accounts contact: Stephen Smith
organiser: Stephen Smith (Canada)
sljsmith@hotmail.com
85. Use of statistics in developing monetary policy contact: Peter Wilrich
organiser: Armida San Jose (Philippines)

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