JUNG JIN LEE REPORTS: 

In this issue we report the CompStat 2002 conference and information on the coming conferences. More detail information can be found via the IASC homepage: http://www.stat.unipg.it/iasc.

Report of the XV CompStat Conference

This year the XV. Compstat conference took place in Berlin, Germany from August 24^th to 28^th 2002. The event was merged with the Computational Finance Conference to provide closer links between these two fields of science. Compstat was organized by the Institute for Statistics and Econometrics of the School of Business and Economics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, together with Freie Universität and the Weierstrass Institute.

Nearly 350 Participants from 36 nations came to Berlin: Nearly a fourth from Germany, more than 11 percent from Japan and 10 percent from Spain and Italy. Five percent came from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Czech Republic. 

The programme was comprised of nine invited lectures, 88 full contributed papers, 71 short communications and 50 poster presentations. Topics related to Computational Finance, Statistics of E-commerce, Mining Very Large Statistical Data-bases, Complex Data Structures in the Biosciences and Net based Statistics.

The invited lectures were given by:

• Trevor Hastie (keynote speaker) "Supervised Learning from Micro-Array Data"
• Steve Brooks "Trans-dimensional Markov Chains and Their Applications in Statistics"
• Chun-houh Chen "Information Visualization of High Dimensional Categorical Data Structure"
• Genshiro Kitagawa "Computational Approach to General State Space Modeling"
• James S. Marron "Mice and Elephants Visualization of Internet Traffic"
• Jürgen Symanzik "Teaching Experiences with CyberStats and other Electronic Textbooks"
• Mariano Valderrama "Forecasting PC-Arima Models for Functional Data"
• Thomas Yee, "An implementation for regression quantile estimation"
• Koichi Yoshioka "KyPlot as a tool for graphical data analysis "

Attendance at the Compstat 2002 included 340 participants coming from more than 30 countries, representing all continents and including people from the academic, industrial and private sectors operating in relative fields.

Several social events were organised during the conference (welcome reception, a guided excursion and a sightseeing boat tour with Gala Dinner). These events helped to create a pleasant atmosphere in which social and scientific exchanges took place.

The young author's awards were given to Simon Urbanek for "Different ways to see a tree - KLIMT", Sabine Verboven and Mia Hubert for "Robust principal components regression" and Claudio Conversano and Carmela Cappelli for "Missing data incremental imputation through tree-based methods". Colin Rose was awarded with the MD*Tech Prize for the best software contribution for his mathstatica package; Isabel Serrano, Juan Jose Hoyo and Dolores Gonzàlez received the poster award for "Non-linear state space models and Gibbs sampling applied to fisheries stock assessment".

Upcoming IASC Conferences

The fourth Conference of Asian Regional Section(ARS) 
of the IASC in Busan, Korea

5^th - 7^th December 2002 Conference Theme: "E-Statistics for Information Society"
Conference Venue: The Westin Chosun Beach Hotel, Busan, Korea 

The 4^th Conference of Asian Regional Section (ARS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) will be held on December 5-7, 2002 in Busan Korea. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas, new concepts and recent methods in statistical computing for information society. Stimulation of research on statistical computing for Data Mining, Customer Relation Management, e-Commerce, Computational Finance are further achievements to be expected from this meeting.

Submitted Papers

At this time, 8 invited papers and roughly 90 contributed papers from 8 different countries have been submitted for presentation. Major topics of the submitted papers include Computer Intensive Methods in Statistical Method, Statistical Methods for Large Data, Data Mining, Statistical Computing and Customer Relation Management, Statistical Software, Statistical Graphs and Data Visualisation, Multivariate Statistical Modeling, Bio Statistics and Clinical Trials. 

Invited speakers and their papers are as follows:

• Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute Vice-Director, Japan) "Independent Component Analysis"
• Nick Fisher (University of Sydney and ValueMetrics, Austrailia) "Statistics and Performance Measurement an Opportunity for Statisticians to Make an Impact"
• Wing K. Fung (University of Hong Kong, China) "Estimation for Longitudinal Data With Unspecified Dependence Structure"
• Zhi Geng (Peking University, China) "Causal inference based on Bayesian networks"
• Wolfgang Haerdle (Humbolt University, Germany) "E-Learning/Teaching of Statistics"
• Junji Nakano (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan) "Jasp: An e-statistical system using Java technologies"
• Sung Hyun Park (Seoul National University, Korea) "Data technology and e-statistics and their applications in industry"
• Antony Unwin (University of Augusburg, Germany) "Interacting with large data sets"

Further Information.
If you have an interest in the conference, please contact

Professor Jung Jin Lee,
Dept. of Statistics,
Soong Sil University
Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu,
Seoul, Korea 156-743
Tel +82-2-820-0443, Fax +82-2-823-1746
Email jjlee@stat.ssu.ac.kr

Election results for Board of Directors of the European 
Regional Section of the IASC (2002-2006)

The European Regional Section recently held their elections for the Chairman-elect and five members of the Board of Directors to serve during the 2002-2006 term under the direction of the Election Committee, formed by Gianfranco Galmacci (Chairman), Antony Unwin and Dee Denteneer. 

The new Chairman-Elect is:
Photis Nanopoulos (Eurostat, Luxembourg)

The new Board Members are:
James Currall (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Marlene Müller (Humboldt University, Germany)
M. Pilar Muñoz (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Hans Nyquist (Umeå University, Sweden)
Luca Scrucca (University of Perugia, Italy)

The European Regional Section of the IASC thanks all the candidates for their interest in participating in IASC affairs to promote statistical computing and computational statistics in Europe. The election will take effect at the next Board of Directors meeting, which will be held during the COMPSTAT 2002 in Berlin (Germany), 23-28 August 2002. 

The incoming BoD Members will replace the retiring Members:

Roger Payne (United Kingdom)
Peter Dirschedl (Germany)
Hakan Ekblom (Sweden)
Anna Bartkowiak (Poland)
Vincenzo Esposito (Italy)

At the next BoD Meeting Gianfranco Galmacci (University of Perugia, Italy) will take over as Chairman from John Hinde (National University of Ireland, Galway) who will then replace Antony Unwin (University of Augsburg, Germany) as ex-officio member in the BoD. 

Elected during the 2000 elections and serving for another two years in the BoD are:

Dee Denteneer (The Netherlands)
Hana Rezankova (Czech Republic)
Herwig Friedl (Austria)
Gunther Sawitzki (Germany)
Helena Bacelar-Nicolau (Portugal) 

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