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Preliminary Information on Scientific Programme

Call for Contributed Papers

The Program Committee is calling for contributed 15-minute talks or poster presentations, either in statistics or in probability. To be considered, submissions must be made through the conference website on or before Friday, February 9, 2007. The website is not yet open to receive submissions; please consult the conference website later in fall to see when it will be open to submissions.

Submissions must include the paper’s title, the authors’ names and affiliations, and an abstract in English or French of 100 words or less. The speaker and the preferred format (talk or poster) should also be identified. Tentative scheduling will be issued by March.

Scientific Program

Three workshops and some 37 invited paper sessions are planned for the conference; these are listed below with titles and organizers where those are available. Please note that invited speakers must pay registration fees and submit their abstract electronically in the same manner as all other participants.

Workshops

1. Biostatistics Section: Additive Models, Simon Wood, University of Bath.
2. Business and Industrial Statistics Section: Advanced R Programming, Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario.
3. Survey Methods Section: to be determined.

Plenary Sessions

• Gold Medal Address - Chris Field, Dalhousie University
• SSC Presidential Invited Address - TBA

Statutory Invited Paper Sessions

• Pierre Robillard Award Address
• CRM / SSC Prize in Statistics Address
• Canadian Journal of Statistics Award Address

Invited Paper Sessions Organized by SSC sections and committees (and organizers)

• Isobel Loutit Invited Address - Bovas Abraham, University of Waterloo (Business and Industrial Statistics Section, Gemai Chen, University of Calgary)
• Special Invited Session of the Survey Methods Section - TBA, (Milorad Kovacevic, Statistics Canada)
• Special Invited Session of the Probability Section - Robert Elliot, University of Calgary. (Murray Burke, University of Calgary)
• Statistical Methods for Correlated Data: (Canadian Caucus for Women in Statistics and the Committee on Women in Statistics, Tulay Koru-Sengul, McMaster)
• Design and Analysis of Experiments for Complex Physical Systems (Business and Industrial Statistics Section, Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University)
• Reliability Models and Their Applications (Business and Industrial Statistics Section, Thierry Duchesne, Laval University)
• Statistical Graphics and Image Analysis (Business and Industrial Statistics Section, Peihua Qui, University of Minnesota)
• Diagnostics for the Retrospective Problem in Sequential Population Analysis of Exploited Fish Stocks (Biostatistics Section, Noel Cadigan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
• Genetic Epidemiology (Biostatistics Section, Karen Kopciuk, University of Calgary)
• Mathematical Methods for Studying Patient Wait Times (Biostatistics Section, Wendy Lou, University of Toronto)
• Statistical Methods for Causal Inference (Biostatistics Section, Robert Platt, McGill University)
• Latest Developments in Small Area Estimation, Theory and Practice (Survey Methods Section, S. Rubin-Bleuer, Statistics Canada)
• Remedies for Sample Survey Outliers (Survey Methods Section, Mike Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada)
• Directions in Household Surveys Development (Survey Methods Section, Edward Chen, Statistics Canada)
• Random Walks and Related Stochastic Processes (Probability Section, Martin Barlow, University of British Columbia)
• Mathematical Finance and Stochastic Analysis (Probability Section, Robert Elliot, University of Calgary)
• Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications (Probability Section, Hao Yu, University of Western Ontario & Shui Feng, McMaster)

Invited Sessions Suggested by SSC Members (and organizers)

• Applications of Empirical Likelihood in Survey Sampling (Jiahua Chen, University of Waterloo)
• Data with Extra Zeros Applied in Ecology (Joanna Mills Flemming, Dalhousie University)
• Robust Statistics (Matias Salibian-Barrera, University of British Columbia)
• Point Processes (Rolf Turner, University of New Brunswick)
• Matrices and Statistics (George Styan, McGill University)
• Confidence Intervals and Regions (Eric Marchand, University of Sherbrooke)
• Generalized Quasilikelihood Inference (Pat Farrell, Carleton University)
• Recent Developments in Multivariate Survival Data Analysis Methodology (Wenqing He, University of Western Ontario)
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo - A Productive Marriage (Radu Craiu, University of Toronto)
• Statistical Applications in hydrology and climatology (Anne-Catherine Favre, University of Quebec )
• Forestry (Reg Kulperger & Dave Stanford, University of Western Ontario)
• Statistical Genetics (Paul Peng, Memorial University)

Invited Sessions Organized by the National Program on Complex Data Structures

There will be three sessions organized under this umbrella. Two of the sessions will be invited paper sessions, and the third will be a special invited poster session which will also entail a roundtable discussion.

John Braun
University of Western Ontario

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