Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events
Last Update: February 9, 2010	Please use the Submission Form to submit new events or to modify existing events. Please do not use this Submission Form to register for an event. Please do not e-mail your submission directly to members of the ISI Permanent Office. For more information on ISI sections, please activate the orange links
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February 8 - 11	SMRLO'10 - The International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management, to be held in the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel. The SMRLO'10 will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of Stochastic Models and Methods in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management and their applications. Information: Dr. Ilia B. Frenkel, SMRLO'10 Organizing Committee Chair Phone: +972-8-6475-642 Fax: +972-8-6475-643 E-mail: SMRLO10@sce.ac.il Website: http://info.sce.ac.il/i/SMRLO10
February 8 - 13	Certificate Course in Data Analysis using SPSS. Website: www.excellaorbit.com
February 16 - 17	Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering commercial deployment across industries and software vendors. Keynote speakers Kim Larsen, Director Advanced Analytics, Charles Schwab, and Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D., Former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com. December 18 Super Early Bird (save $400); January 15 Early Bird (save $200). Promo: Take additional $50-$150 discount with code ISI150 E-mail: registration@predictiveanalyticsworld.com 718-577-1202 Website: www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com (Conference Info)
February 16 - 19	International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences. San Jose, Costa Rica. Website: http://www.cimpa.ucr.ac.cr/simmac.html
March 10 - 12	Joint UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Work Session on Statistical Metadata. The Work Session will be held at the Palais des Nations, Avenue de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland. The aim is to exchange experience among experts and to identify best practices in the field of statistical metadata. The Work Session will focus on progress under the different parts of the Common Metadata Framework (CMF) initiative (http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/metis/) Information: Mr. Steven Vale, Statistical Division, UNECE Phone: +41-22 917 32 85 Fax: +41-22 917 00 40 E-mail: steven.vale@unece.org Website: www.unece.org/stats/documents/2010.03.metis.htm
March 17 - 19	The IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (ICDMA'10) will take place in Hong Kong. The conference ICDMA'10 is held under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2010. The IMECS 2010 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). Draft Manuscript submission deadline: 8 December, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 10 January, 2010 Information: IAENG Secretariat E-mail: imecs@iaeng.org Website: http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/ICDMA2010.html
March 18 - 19	Sixth International Seminar on Recent Development of Official Statistics.
March 23 - 26	The 'Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik' (DAGStat) is a network of scientific and professional organisations that develop and promote statistical theory and methodology. The second joint conference of Statisticians DAGStat 2010 in Dortmund includes the 56^th Biometrisches Kolloquium and the Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft. The theme is 'Statistics under one umbrella', encouraging a fruitful scientific communication between statisticians working in different fields. Information: Prof. Dr. Jörg Rahnenführer Phone: +49 231 755 - 3121 Fax: +49 231 755 - 5303 E-mail: dagstat2010@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Website: www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/DAGStat2010/en/
March 24 - 25	The Official Statistics Forum 2010 - Realising the value of official statistics, to be held in Wellington, New Zealand. Users and producers of official statistics meet to share their knowledge and experience of the New Zealand Official Statistics System (OSS), the wealth of information it represents, and to review the user needs for such statistics. Registrations open on 27 October 2009. E-mail: OSS@stats.govt.nz Website: www.statisphere.govt.nz/official-statistics-forum-2010
April 7 - 9	MAF 2010 – Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, to be held in Ravello (SA) Italy. The aim of the MAF 2010 Conference is to provide new theoretical results and significant applications in actuarial sciences and finance. The conference covers a wide variety of subjects in actuarial sciences and financial fields, all treated in light of the cooperation among mathematicians and statisticians. Information: MAF 2010 - Chairs: Cira Perna and Marilena Sibillo Fax: +39 089962049 E-mail: maf2010@unisa.it Website: maf2010.unisa.it
April 14 - 17	International Workshop on Multivariate Risks and Copulas. The workshop will serve as a forum for discussing different issues of risks, copulas and related topics. The main goal of this scientific event is to gather researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions, industries and Government, working in these fields. Location: Mohamed Khider University of Biskra, Algeria Information: Prof. Dr. Abdelhakim Necir, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics E-mail: necirabdelhakim@yahoo.fr Website: www.univ-biskra.dz/manifestations/math/stat_2010/
April 22 - 23	Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web is a concentrated training program that includes interactive breakout sessions and a brief hands-on exercise. Customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver relevant content to each customer, improving response rates, click rates, buying behavior, retention and overall profit. If you predict it, you own it. Location: New York City, NY Information: Prediction Impact, Inc. E-mail: training@predictionimpact.com (415) 683-1146 Website: www.predictionimpact.com/predictive-analytics-training.html
April 26 - 30	74^th European Study Group with Industry Location: University of Aveiro, Portugal Website: http://esgi.web.ua.pt/
April 28 - 30	Joint Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projection taking place in Lisbon. Website: http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2010.04.projections.htm
May 4 - 6	Quality in Official Statistics Q2010 Conference will be held at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland. In addition, a series of short courses will be arranged on 3 May 2010 at Statistics Finland. E-mail: q2010@stat.fi Website: http://q2010.stat.fi
May 7 - 8	Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web is a concentrated training program that includes interactive breakout sessions and a brief hands-on exercise. Customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver relevant content to each customer, improving response rates, click rates, buying behavior, retention and overall profit. If you predict it, you own it. Location: San Jose, California Information: Prediction Impact, Inc. E-mail: training@predictionimpact.com (415) 683-1146 Website: www.predictionimpact.com/predictive-analytics-training.html
May 9 - 12	Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Challenges in Health to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop aims to bring researchers interested in advanced statistical applications in Health challenging problems, to promote knowledge and experience exchange and also to encourage cooperation between the participants. Non-parallel sessions will include the following areas: health spatial problems, survival analysis, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, latent class models in health. Information: Valeska Andreozzi Phone: +351 21 750 0170 E-mail: wstam2010@gmail.com Website: stam2010.fc.ul.pt
May 17 - 18	Directions - European Conference about SPSS / predictive analytics Website: http://www.spss.com/spssdirections/emea/
May 23 - 26	38^th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. This conference will bring together academic, governmental and industrial researchers as well as users of statistics and probability and will feature workshops, invited and contributed sessions in all areas of statistics and probability. Information: Local Arrangements Chair- Thierry Duchesne Phone: +1 (418) 656-2131 x 5077 Fax: +1 (418) 656-2817 E-mail: duchesne@mat.ulaval.ca
May 31 - June 2	International Workshop on Computational Stochastics (as part of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2010), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This workshop is intended to provide a joint interdisciplinary forum for researchers applying probability and statistics in different scientific domains. The goal is to establish a meeting where stochastic models and methods are the common objective and the focus is on computational or algorithmic approaches. Website: www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~ws09/computational_stochastics-2010.html
June 3 - 6	The Department of Statistics & Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of University of the Aegean is pleased to host the 6^th Samos Conference. This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Københavns Universitet, provides a forum for state-of-the-art results in the area of actuarial science and finance. Website: www.actuar.aegean.gr/samos2010/
June 5 - 8	IWMS 2010 - 19^th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics. The purpose of the conference is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between matrix theory and statistics. The conference will have a wide variety of invited and contributed papers. Potential participants are recommended to consult the website for online registration and submission of abstracts of contributed talks. Venue: Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai, Chini E-mail: IWMS2010@shfc.edu.cn Website: www1.shfc.edu.cn/iwms/index.asp
June 8 - 11	SMTDA2010, Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, to be held in Chania, Crete, Greece. The main goal of the Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference (SMTDA2010) is to promote new methods and techniques for analyzing data, in fields like stochastic modeling, optimization techniques, statistical methods and inference, data mining and knowledge systems, computing-aided decision supports, neural networks and... Information: Christos H. Skiadas E-mail: secretariat@smtda.net Website: http://www.smtda.net
June 10 - 12	International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis: Performance Management and Measurement, Beirut, Lebanon. Website: www.DEAzone.com/DEA2010
June 14 - 17	23^rd Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics (NORDSTAT 2010) will be held in Voss, Norway. E-mail: mail@kongress.no Website: www.nordstat2010.org
June 16 - 18	Sparse structures: statistical theory and practice Research workshop: to be held in Bristol, U.K. One of the most challenging problems in modern statistics is to find effective methods for the analysis of complex multi-dimensional data. Sparsity has been emerging as a major tool for handling statistical problems in high dimensions. The aim of this workshop is to bring together theory and practice in modelling high-dimensional data using these tools. E-mail: sustain-sparsity@bristol.ac.uk Website: www.sustain.bris.ac.uk/ws-sparsity
June 16 - 18	45^th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society Location: Padua, Italy Description: The Italian Statistical Society (SIS) promotes every two years an international scientific meeting. The 2010 meeting will take place in Padua, Italy, next June. The Conference will include plenary, specialized, contributed and poster sessions. These can be on any area of interest relevant to theoretical and applied statistics. Information: Patrizia Piacentini Fax: +39 049 827 4170 E-mail: piacent@stat.unipd.it Website: www.sis-statistica.it/meetings/index.php/sis2010/sis2010
June 16 - 18	7^th Summer School on Regression Analysis with Discrete and Censored Dependent Variables. Website: http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/summerschool2010
June 19 - 26	XIV International Summer Conference on Probability and Statistics, Seminar on Statistical Data Analysis and Workshop on Branching Processes, Sozopol (Black Sea Cost), Bulgaria. Information and application for participation on line. Information: Nikolay M. Yanev Fax: +3592-9713649 E-mail: yanev@math.bas.bg , statlab@math.bas.bg Websites: www.math.bas.bg , stochastics.fmi.uni-sofia.bg
June 20 - 23	30^th International Symposium on Forecasting, to be held in San Diego, CA-USA. The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world's leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF provides many excellent opportunities for networking, learning, and fun. Information: Pam Stroud, IIF Business Manager Phone: 781.234.4077 Fax: 509.357.5530 E-mail: isf@forecasters.org Website: http://www.forecasters.org/isf/index.html
June 20 - 25	21^st Annual Conference of the International Environmetrics Society : The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) is a non-profit organization aimed to foster the evelopment and use of statistical and other quantitative methods in the environmental sciences, environmental engineering and environmental monitoring and protection. To this end, the Society promotes the participation of statisticians, mathematicians, scientists and engineers in the solution of environmental problems and emphasizes the need for collaboration and for clear communication between individuals from different disciplines and between researchers and practitioners . To be held on the Margarita Island/Hesperia Isla de Margarita, Venezuela. Sustaining our environment under changing conditions: Quantitative methodological challenges. Funding is possible. Information: Lelys Guenni Phone: +58-212-9063233 Fax: +58-212-9063232/3234 E-mail: ties2010@cesma.usb.ve Website: www.cesma.usb.ve/ties2010/
June 28 - July 2	ICORS 2010 - International Conference on Robust Statistics will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. Previous ICORS meetings were held in Vorau (2001), Vancouver (2002), Antwerp (2003), Beijing (2004), Jyväskylä (2005), Lisbon (2006), Buenos Aires (2007), Antalya (2008) and Parma (2009). Information: Jana Jureckova Phone: +420 221913285 Fax: +420 222323316 E-mail: icors2010@karlin.mff.cuni.cz Website: http://icors2010.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/
June 28 - July 2	10^th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The meeting will follow the well established pattern of Vilnius conferences with a few plenary talks and sessions on important subfields. Information: Professor Vygantas Paulauskas Phone: +370 52101436 Fax: +37052120013 E-mail: info@vilniusconference10.com Website: www.vilniusconference10.com
June 29 - July 1	International Conference on Probability Distributions and Related Topics in conjunction with NZSA Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Massey University (New Zealand) is hosting an international conference in statistical distributions and their applications in conjunction with NZSA (New Zealand Statistical Association) annual conference. The conference is intended to cover all topics in distribution theory and applications of distributions. Information: N. Balakrishnan (bala@mcmaster.ca), Alasdair Noble (a.d.noble@massey.ac.nz), G. Ganeslingam (s.ganeslingam@massey.ac.nz), Chin-Diew Lai (c.lai@massey.ac.nz) Website: http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz/
June 30 - July 2	The 2010 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering (ICCSDE 2010) will take place in London, U.K.. It is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. Information: IAENG Secretariat E-mail: wce@iaeng.org Website: http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2010/ICCSDE2010.html
July 5 - 7	Water2010: 10^th International Symposium on Stochastic Hydraulics & 5^th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research provides a prestigious platform for water sciences with several statistical sessions and themes to an anticipated audience of over 300 delegates. The event is to be held in the city of Quebec in Eastern Canada. This lively city, with many cultural treasures and historic attractions, has just celebrated its 400^th anniversary in 2008. E-mail: info@water2010.org
July 5 - 8	5^th International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP 2010) to be held at the north campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain. The aim of this workshop is to bring together and foster collaboration among scientists engaged in applied probability. A wide range of active research fields will be covered featuring seven invited plenary lectures, presented by leading specialists, a large variety of invited sessions, contributed talks, and a special poster session. Deadline for submissions: March 5^th. Contact: Fundacion Universidad Carlos III Address: Av. Universidad, 30, 28911, Leganes - Madrid Phone: +34 91 6249145 / 42 E-mail: congrega@fund.uc3m.es Website: www.est.uc3m.es/iwap2010
July 8	SPSS (PASW) One-Day Syntax Workshop, University of Cardiff, UK This one-day workshop introduces applications and uses of syntax in SPSS/PASW. It is aimed at people who have some knowledge of SPSS/PASW possibly by using its menu system. A workbook and USB stick of examples are provided together with refreshments and lunch. Contact: Peter Watson Phone: 01223 355294 x801 Fax: 01223 359062 E-mail: peter.watson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.spssusers.co.uk/Events/2010/workshopannounce.html
July 9	SPSS (PASW) one-day Macros and OMS Workshop, University of Cardiff, UK. This one-day workshop introduces applications using SPSS/PASW programming including the output management system which can retrieve useful information from SPSS/PASW output tables. It is aimed at people who have some knowledge of SPSS/PASW and are familiar with SPSS/PASW syntax. A workbook and USB stick of examples are provided together with refreshments and lunch. Contact: Peter Watson Phone: 01223 355294 x801 Fax: 01223 359062 E-mail: peter.watson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.spssusers.co.uk/Events/2010/workshopannounce.html
July 5 - 9	ISBIS-2010, biennial conference for ISBIS : The objectives of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics are: to promote the advancement and exchange of knowledge in business, financial and industrial statistics; to build international collaboration among statisticians and users of statistics working in business, finance and industry; to exchange ideas and information at an international level through conferences, workshops and publications; to encourage links between statisticians from developing and developed countries; to develop and promote relationships among national and regional professional societies or groups involved in activities related to business, financial and industrial statistics . Key themes: industrial applications of Statistical Image Analysis; Future Directions for handling large & complex data sets; Financial Services; Health Services; quality & prod. improvement and decision-making in business & industry. Extended versions of papers may be submitted for publication in a special edition of the ISBIS journal, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. Location: Grand Hotel Bernardin, St. Bernardin Adriatic Resort & Convention Center, Portorož (Portorose), Slovenia. Information: Milena Zeithamlova - milena@action-m.com. Website: http://www.action-m.com/isbis2010
July 5 - 9	The 25^th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM 2010) will be held at The University of Glasgow in Scotland from 5^th-9^th July 2010, with a short course on 4^th July 2010. The IWSM is an annual international workshop to promote and develop the use of statistical modelling in research and applications. Information: Claire Ferguson (claire@stats.gla.ac.uk) or Adrian Bowman (adrian@stats.gla.ac.uk). Website: www.stats.gla.ac.uk/IWSM2010
July 11 - 16	ICOTS 8 - Data and Context in Statistics Education: Towards an Evidence-Based Society - to be held in the Ljubljana Cultural and Congress Centre at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contributed Paper Sessions will be arranged in a variety of areas. It is being organised by the IASE : The International Association for Statistics Education seeks to improve statistics education at all levels from elementary (primary) school through to the training of professionals, and to increase the uptake of statistics education world wide. It fosters international cooperation, and stimulates discussion and research. IASE disseminates ideas, strategies, research findings, materials, and information using publications, international conferences, and increasingly its website. and the Slovenian Statistical Association. Those interested in submitting an invited paper should contact the appropriate Session Organiser before 1^stDecember 2008. Contributed paper sessions will be arranged in a variety of areas. Those interested in submitting a contributed paper should contact either Gilberte Schuyten, John McKenzie or Flavia Jolliffe before 1^st September 2009. Posters: Those interested in submitting a poster should contact Mojca Bavdaz or Alesa Lotric Dolinar before 15^thJanuary 2010. Information: ICOTS IPC Chair John Harraway Programme Chair, Roxy Peck Scientific Secretary, Helen MacGillivray Website: http://ICOTS8.org
July 12 - 16	11^th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland. 11IMSC provides a forum at which statisticians and climatologists can come together to discuss how best to apply statistical thinking to today's topical climate problems, including the reconstruction of historical climates, the analysis of change in our current climate, and the projection of future climates. Information: Gabi Hegerl, Gabi.Hegerl@ed.ac.uk Website: http://cccma.seos.uvic.ca/imsc/11imsc.shtml
July 24 - 29	2010 International Conference on Statistics and Management Engineering will be held in Weiha. E-mail: iismes_2010@vip.163.com , sm_lium@ujn.edu.cn Website: http://www.iismes.org
July 26 - 30	6^th International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications. This conference will be held at the Technical University at Dresden, Germany. There will be invited talks and poster sessions. This conference will focus on recent developments in the theory of Lévy and jump processes and their applications. Information: - René Schilling, TU Dresden, Tel.: +49 351 463 35668, Fax: +49 351 463 37251. - Alexander Lindner, TU Braunschweig, Tel.: +49 531 391 7575, Fax: +49 531 391 7564 E-mail: levy2010@tu-dresden.de Website: www.math.tu-dresden.de/levy2010
July 27 - 31	LinStat 2010 will be held in Tomar, Portugal. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects. The format of this meeting will involve plenary talks and sessions with contributed talks. We are also planning a special session with talks by graduate students. Information: Professor Francisco Carvalho Phone: +351 249 328 100 Fax: +351 249 328 186 E-mail: fpcarvalho@ipt.pt Website: www.linstat2010.ipt.pt
July 31 - August 5	2010 Joint Statistical Meetings. Canada. To be held at the Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, British Columbia. Website: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010/index.cfm
August 1 - 5	Joint Statistical Meeting, organized by the American Statistical Association and to be held at the Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Website: www.amstat.org/meetings
August 5 - 7	16^th ISSAT International Conference on Reliabiltiy and Quality in Design, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Calling for Papers E-mail: Conference Secretary rqd@issatconferences.org Website: www.issatconferences.org
August 9 - 13	The Annual Meeting 2010 of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in Gothenburg, Sweden. Website: http://www.ims-gothenburg.com/
August 11 - 13	27^th Conference on Regional and Urban Statistics: SCORUS is organizing its regular conference in Riga, Latvia under the theme "Creating a knowledge base for successful cities and regions, along the statistical value chain". Sub-themes include: Statistical design; Data collection for creating a knowledge base; Compilation, estimation and documentation; Analysis and research; Dissemination; and Evaluation (quality and user satisfaction). Register by 15 July 2010. Online registration available soon. E-mail: scorus@csb.gov.lv Website: http://www.cbs.gov.lv/scorus
August 11 - 15	The 20^th Colombian Statistics Symposium to be held at Santa Marta, Colombia. This event is organized annually by the Statistics Department of the National University of Colombia. E-mail: simestadi_fcbog@unal.edu.co Website: www.ciencias.unal.edu.co/estadistica/simposio
August 17 - 22	The 28^th European Meeting of Statisticians, to be held at the University of Piraeus (Greece). Under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society : The mission of the Bernoulli Society is to further the increase of natural knowledge and the welfare of mankind through the advancement of the sciences of probability and mathematical statistics and their applications The purpose of EMS 2010 is to provide a forum where researchers from universities throughout the world, as well as practitioners, can discuss current problems, new approaches and future directions in the field of Probability and Statistics. Young researchers and PhD students are especially invited to contribute papers. Website: http://stat.unipi.gr/ems2010
August 22 - 27	The 19^th Symposium of the European Regional Section of the IASC : The objectives of the International Association for Statistical Computing are to foster world-wide interest in effective statistical computing and to exchange technical knowledge through international contacts and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public , COMPSTAT 2010, to be held in the premises of Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris. Deadline for contributed paper submission: January 10, 2010. E-mail: info@compstat2010.fr Website: http://www.compstat2010.fr
August 29 - September 1	SAMSI: 2010-11 Program on Complex Networks Tutorials and Opening Workshop, to be held in the Research Triangle Park, NC. This year-long program focuses on the emerging area of network science. Through empirical, applied and analytical approaches, the researchers in the program will work toward a better understanding of the networked systems encountered in nature or constructed in engineered systems. Information: Terri Nida, 919-685-9350 (phone) 919-685-9360 (fax) Website: http://www.samsi.info
August 30 - September 3	Prague Stochastics 2010. To be held in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague Stochastics 2010 is next in a series of international conferences on stochastics organized in Prague since 1956. The scientific programme will be aimed at covering a wide range of stochastics, with special emphasis on the topics of this lively field which have been pursued in Prague. E-mail: pragstoch@utia.cas.cz Website: http://www.utia.cas.cz/pragstoch2010
August 29 - September 2	The 31^st Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics will be held at the ENSAM in Montpellier, France. It will bring together leading experts in the field of biostatistics with focus on changes concerning widely used methodologies. Special emphasis will be placed on Public Health Decision Making, Chronic Disease Modelling and Vaccination. The invited sessions include Novel approaches to clinical trials, Epidemiology, Analysis of complex data and Use of genetic data. Contact information: Ladret Véronique and Castelli Christel E-mail: contact@iscb2010.info
September 6 - 10	The 34^th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2010) will be held in Osaka, Japan. The main venue will be the Senri Life Science Center, located in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The Conference is the major annual meeting for researchers working in the field of Stochastic Processes. Information: Professor Ichiro Shigekawa, chair of the organizing committee. Website: http://stokhos.shinshu-u.ac.jp/SPA2010/index.html
September 8 - 10	Joint Meeting GfKl – CLADAG, to be held in Firenze, Italy Following a biennial tradition, the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society - CLADAG will have its international meeting in 2010 jointly with the German Classification Society - GfKl. Venue: The Joint Meeting will be held at the “Polo Universitario delle Scienze Sociali”, Via delle Pandette, Firenze. Information: B. Bertaccini, A. Mattei Department of Statistics Viale Morgagni, 59 50134 FIRENZE (Italy) Fax: +390554223560 E-mail: gfkl_cladag2010@ds.unifi.it Website: http://gfkl-cladag.ds.unifi.it
September 12 - 15	SAMSI: 2010-11 Program on Analysis of Object Oriented Data Tutorials and Opening Workshop, to be held in the Research Triangle Park, NC. Modern science is generating a need to understand, and statistically analyze, populations of increasingly complex types. The term "Analysis of Object Oriented Data" (AOOD) is aimed at encompassing a broad array of such methods. Examples include images, shapes of objects in 3D, points on a manifold, tree structured objects, and various types of movies. Information: Terri Nida, 919-685-9350 (phone) 919-685-9360 (fax) Website: http://www.samsi.info
September 13 - 15	The 10^th Annual Conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) will take place in Antwerp in Belgium. The venue is the 16^th-century Hof Van Liere, where the University of Antwerp's Faculty of Applied Economics is located. The program includes keynote lectures, invited and contributed sessions, poster sessions, workshops and courses as well as a reception at the city hall and dinners in a maze of medieval cellars and in the Marble Hall of the Antwerp Zoo. Information: Peter Goos Phone: +32 3 265 40 59 E-mail: peter.goos@ua.ac.be Website: www.enbis.org
September 14 - 17	2010 Annual Meeting of the German Statistical Society To be held in Nuremberg, Germany. Major topics: Energy, Research on Poverty Measurement, and Jump Regression Analysis. Gumbel lecture on „On the Asymptotic Size of Testing Procedures“ . Young researchers mini-symposium on "Microeconometrics: Theory and Applications“. Special sections include: Effect of Model Selection on Subsequent Inference, Statistics of dynamic prozesses, Environmetrics, Change-Points, Risk Management. Information: Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft Geschäftsstelle an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität 22039 Hamburg Phone: +49- 40 65412779 Fax: +49- 40 65412565 E-mail: post@dstatg.de Website: www.statistische-woche-nuernberg-2010.de
October 5	World Urban Forum will take place on UN Habitat Day. Website: www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=535
October 20	World Statistics Day. The objective of World Statistics Day is to celebrate the many contributions of official statistics and, for 2010 in particular, the conduct of the population and housing census around the world. The day would raise awareness on various levels: in countries, in the regions and globally. As an ultimate goal, the celebration of the World Statistics Day would acknowledge the service provided by the global statistical system at national and international level, and hope to help strengthen the awareness and trust of the public in official statistics. It serves as an advocacy tool to further support the work of statisticians across different settings, cultures, and domains. Information: Mr. Paul Cheung, see letter of invitation (PDF). E-mail: unsd@un.org Website: http://unstats.un.org (PDF)
October 20 - 22	IAOS : The objectives of International Association for Official Statistics are: to promote the understanding and advancement of official statistics and related subjects; and to foster the development of effective and efficient official statistical services, particularly in developing countries, through international contacts among individuals and organizations, including users of official statistics as well as research institutions /Scorus Conference on official statistics and the environment: approaches, issues, challenges and linkages. The proposal is to organize the work in 2 Plenary Sessions, 3 Panel Discussions and 5 Parallel Sessions. Plenary Session 1 proposed theme: "Environmental policy on the world level and on the Latin America level". Plenary Session 2 proposed theme: “Official statistics’ role in environmental and related socio-economic information”. (More, more) E-mail: Proposals and comments should be sent to: iaos2010.surs@gov.si Website: http://www.ine.cl/iaos2010/eng/index.html
October 20 - 22	International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Control 2010 - ICMSC 2010 San Francisco, USA The conference ICMSC'10 is held under the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science WCECS 2010. The WCECS 2010 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. Information: IAENG Secretariat E-mail: wcecs@iaeng.org Website: http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2010/ICMSC2010.html
October 28 - 29	Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web is a concentrated training program that includes interactive breakout sessions and a brief hands-on exercise. Customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver relevant content to each customer, improving response rates, click rates, buying behavior, retention and overall profit. If you predict it, you own it. Location: San Francisco, CA Information: Prediction Impact, Inc. E-mail: training@predictionimpact.com (415) 683-1146 Website: www.predictionimpact.com/predictive-analytics-training.html
November 18	African Statistics Day Celebrations. Organized by the UN Commission for Africa and the African Centre for Statistics. This day was adopted in 1990 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the 16^th meeting of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development to be celebrated each year in order to increase public awareness about the important role which statistics play in all aspects of social and economic life of the continent.
December 6 - 10	Australian Statistical Conference 2010. Place: Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. Delegates from all areas of statistics will be able to communicate and join world class Australian and international statisticians to discuss new work and developments and share their knowledge and expertise. The theme: ‘Statistics in the West: understanding our world’, provides for presentations on a wide range of topics and recognises the role statistics plays in all aspects of life. Information: Promaco Conventions Pty Ltd P.O. Box 890, Canning Bridge, Western Australia 6153 Phone: +61 8 9332 2900 Fax: +61 8 9332 2911 E-mail: promaco@promaco.com.au Website: http://www.statsoc.org.au/statistical-conference.htm
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June 19 - 25	The 35^th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2011) will be held in Oaxaca, Mexico.
June 20 - 24	Seventh International Conference on “Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Theory, Methods and Applications" Location: Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China Conference Place: Friendship Hotel (adjacent to BIT) Organizers: Lirong Cui, BIT, China; Lirongcui@bit.edu.cn; N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University, Canada; bala@mcmaster.ca; Guoxiao Yang, BIT, China; Yanggx@bit.edu.cn Information: Professor N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Phone: 1-905-525-9140, ext: 23420 Fax: 1-905-522-1676 Website: www.mmr2011.cn
July 30 - August 4	Joint Statistical Meeting, organized by the American Statistical Association and to be held at the South Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida. Website: www.amstat.org/meetings
August 21 - 26	International Statistical Institute, 58^th ISI World Statistics Congress: Includes meetings of the Bernoulli Society, the International Association for Statistical Computing, the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the International Association for Official Statistics, the International Association for Statistics Education, the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, and The International Environmetrics Society, to be held in Dublin, Ireland. Information: ISI Permanent Office, P.O. Box 24070 2490 AB The Hague, The Netherlands. Phone: +31–70–3375737 Fax: +31–70–3860025 E-mail: @cbs.nl Website: http://www.isi2011.ie/
Aug 21 - Aug 25	The 32^nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics will take place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Information: Tim Ramsay 613-737-8899 x79380 613-739-6266 E-mail: tramsay@ohri.ca Website: www.ohri.ca
September 4 - 8	The 11^th annual conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) will take place at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Theoretical and practical papers covering all areas of business and industrial statistics are cordially invited. Information: Marco P. Seabra dos Reis Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra Polo II, Rua Sílvio Lima 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal E-mail: marco@eq.uc.pt Website: www.enbis.org
November 18	African Statistics Day Celebrations. Organized by the UN Commission for Africa and the African Centre for Statistics. This day was adopted in 1990 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the 16^th meeting of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development to be celebrated each year in order to increase public awareness about the important role which statistics play in all aspects of social and economic life of the continent.
December 28 - 31	International Conference on Advances in Probability and Statistics - Theory and Applications: A Celebration of N. Balakrishnan's 30 years of Contributions to Statistics. Location: Hong Kong, S.A.R. China The conference will feature research topics inspired by the substantial contributions of Prof. N. Balakrishnan to Statistics. It aims to bring together researchers interested in probability and statistics to discuss recent developments and to suggest future research directions. E-mail: icaps2011@gmail.com P. S. Chan, e-mail: benchan@cuhk.edu.hk H. K. Tony Ng, e-mail: ngh@mail.smu.edu H. N. Nagaraja, e-mail: hnn@stat.osu.edu Website: http://faculty.smu.edu/ngh/icaps2011.html
2012 Top
June 11 - 14	The 4^th International Conference on Establishment Surveys, to be held in Montreal, Canada.
July 9 - 14	8th Bernoulli Society : The mission of the Bernoulli Society is to further the increase of natural knowledge and the welfare of mankind through the advancement of the sciences of probability and mathematical statistics and their applications World Congress, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. (in conjunction with the 2012 IMS Annual Meeting). Scheduled every four years, this meeting is a major worldwide event in mathematical statistics, probability, stochastic processes and their applications. Information:Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Çağlar Website: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~worldcong2012
July 28 - August 2	2012 Joint Statistical Meetings. To be held at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California. Website: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm.cfm
November 18	African Statistics Day Celebrations. Organized by the UN Commission for Africa and the African Centre for Statistics. This day was adopted in 1990 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the 16^th meeting of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development to be celebrated each year in order to increase public awareness about the important role which statistics play in all aspects of social and economic life of the continent.
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August 3 - 8	2013 Joint Statistical Meetings. To be held at the Montreal Convention Center, Montreal Quebec, Canada. Website: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm.cfm
August 24 - 31	International Statistical Institute, 59^th ISI World Statistics Congress: Includes meetings of the Bernoulli Society, the International Association for Statistical Computing, the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the International Association for Official Statistics, the International Association for Statistics Education, the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, and The International Environmetrics Society, to be held in Hong Kong, S.A.R. China. Information: ISI Permanent Office, P.O. Box 24070, 2490 AB The Hague, The Netherlands. Phone: +31–70–3375737 Fax: +31–70–3860025 E-mail: @cbs.nl Website: http://www.isi2013.hk
November 18	African Statistics Day Celebrations. Organized by the UN Commission for Africa and the African Centre for Statistics. This day was adopted in 1990 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the 16^th meeting of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development to be celebrated each year in order to increase public awareness about the important role which statistics play in all aspects of social and economic life of the continent.
2014 Top
August 2 - 7	2014 Joint Statistical Meetings. To be held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Website: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm.cfm
November 18	African Statistics Day Celebrations. Organized by the UN Commission for Africa and the African Centre for Statistics. This day was adopted in 1990 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the 16^th meeting of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development to be celebrated each year in order to increase public awareness about the important role which statistics play in all aspects of social and economic life of the continent.

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