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ICSA Member News July 2010
NEWS FOR ICSA

ICSA 2010 Meeting and Announcement

The Eighth ICSA International Conference: Frontiers of Interdisciplinary and Methodological Statistical Research

Call for Contributed Papers

The 8th ICSA International Conference will be held at Guangzhou University, China on December 19-22, 2010. Guangzhou University is located in Guangzhou city in Guangdong Province in Southern China.
This conference is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Chinese Association of Applied Statistics, the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), and jointly organized by the College of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou University.
The program committee would like to invite contributed papers from the international statistics community. A submission should include a title, an abstract, and contact information (affiliation, position, email and fax) in English. Priorities will be given to submissions on topics related to the theme of the conference.
Submissions should be in pdf files and sent via email by September 1, 2010 to oicsa@icsa.org with "ICSA 2010 Int Conf Contributed Paper Submission" in the subject line.
Scientific program committee:
Bin Yu (co-chair)
Zhiming Ma (co-chair)

News from Statistica Sinica

Forthcoming Papers from Statistica Sinica

Forthcoming papers’ information is available at http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/. Those papers are expected to appear in Volume 20, Number 4, October 2010

The July Issue Has Been Released!


Statistica Sinica has released the on-line version of the July issue. The newly-published articles are available for subscribers when clicking on Current Issue. ICSA members please access those articles via the “membership only area” at http://www.icsa.org/ . If you have any problems for subscription, please contact the editorial office through ss@stat.sinica.edu.tw.

Awards and News


ICSA Student Travel Awards 2010


Xu He, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Subgroups defined by two or more genetic markers in genome-wide association studies

Miguel Marino, Harvard School of Public Health,
Statisticsal Inference in Factor Analysis for High-Dimensional, Low-Sample Size Data: Understanding the Change Patterns of the US Cancer Mortality Rates

Xingye Qiao, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pairwise Variable Selection for Classification

Sihai Dave Zhao, Dept. of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health,
Principled sure independence screening for Cox models with ultra-high-dimensional covariates

2010 JP HSU Award Recipients

Ni Li, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri
Semiparametric Transformation Models for Panel Count Data with Dependent Observation Process



UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS

IMS Sponsored Meeting JSM2010
July 31 – August 5, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010/


Recent Advances in the Numerical Approximation of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
August 9 – August 13, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA
http://mypages.iit.edu/~duan/SPDE2010.html/


75th anniversary of the Department of Statistics, GWU Statistics Symposium
September 25, 2010, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
www.gwu.edu/~stat/75th

 

Seventeenth Annual Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XVII)
November 8 -November 12, 2010, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
http://bass.georgiasouthern.edu

 

65th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics
December 5-December 10, 2010, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
www.demingconference.com

 

Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications. Conference in honor of Lawrence Brown’s 70th birthday
December 15–December 17, 2010, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
http://stat.wharton. upenn.edu/~zhangk/BS/index.htm

 

International Conference on Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics (ASFM2010)
December 16–December 18, 2010, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ama/events/conference/asfm2010/

 

International Workshop on Emerging Issues and Challenges to Statistics
December 17-December 18, 2010, Xiamen University, Fujian, P.R. China
http://www.southalabama.edu/iweics//


International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
December 17-December 22, 2010, Beijing, China


ICSA 2010 Conference: Frontiers of Interdisciplinary and Methodological Statistical Research
December 19–December 22, 2010, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
http://www.icsa2.org/Intl_2010/

 

First Announcement: Fourth International IMS/ISBA Joint Meeting “MCMSki III”: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Statistical Science
January 5–January 7, 2011, The Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah, USA
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html

 

2011 EN AR/IMS Spring Meetings
March 20–March 23, 2011, Hyatt Regency Miami, FL, USA
http://www.enar.org/meetings.cfm

 

The second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings
July 3 - July 6, 2011, OMIYA Sonic City conference hall Tokyo, Japan
http://www.sonic-city.or.jp/modules/english/