[Forum SIS] Joint Meeting of yBIS and jSPE

[Società Italiana di Statistica]

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SEGRETERIA SIS

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
due to several requests to postpone the deadline for abstract submission due to Easter holidays, we have decided to do so. Therefore, the new and final deadline for abstract submission is the 30th of April 2012. 
Bellow you can find a short description of the progress in the organization.
Full information is available in our website: http://ybis-jspe.com/.

Enclosed I'm sending the Poster for this conference, we would appreciate if you could share it with your contacts and post it in your department.

The first Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (y-BIS) meeting  will be held at Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, from July 23–26, 2012  (http://www.ybis-jspe.com/). 
This conference will be jointly with the  first meeting of the Young Portuguese Statisticians of the Portuguese  Statistical Society (jSPE). We invite undergraduates, PhD candidates,  post-docs, assistant professors, and anyone studying or working in  statistics to participate at this meeting. 

The session topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Business and Industrial Statistics; Applied Statistics; Computational and Graphical Statistics; Econometrics; Biostatistics; Environmental Statistics and Environmetrics; Bayesian Statistics; Extreme Value Statistics; Multivariate Statistics; Mathematical Statistics; Spatial Statistics; Time Series Analysis; Stochastic Processes; Actuarial Sciences; Probability Theory; Official Statistics; Survey Statistics; Statistical Education.

TWO SPECIAL ISSUES of International Scientific Journals are being planned for papers presented at the Joint Meeting of y-BIS and jSPE:
  a.. RevStat--Statistical Journal (Impact Factor 2010: 0.733) 
  b.. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Taylor & Francis, IF 2010: 0.343)
There will be THREE AWARDS to which Speakers in Invited Paper Sessions, Contributed Paper Sessions, and Contributed Posters, can apply:

  a.. Best yBIS–jSPE Paper Award (papers related to business and industry); 
  b.. Best jSPE–yBIS Paper Award (papers related to general methodology and applications); 
  c.. Best yBIS–jSPE Poster Award
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

  a.. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Professor of Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 
  b.. Tapabrata Maiti, Professor of Statistics at Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, USA. 
  c.. João Cadete de Matos, Head of the Department of Statistics at the Portuguese Central Bank. 
  d.. Richard D. De Veaux, Professor of Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, and Author at Pearson Education. 
  e.. Agus Sudjianto, Director of Analytics and Modeling at Lloyds Banking Group. 
  f.. Ronald Wasserstein, Executive Director of the American Statistical Association.
IMPORTANT DATES:

  a.. NEW Deadline for abstract submission – April 30, 2012  (register and submit at http://ferrari.dmat.fct.unl.pt/ybisjspe/index.php?sid=26975&lang=en) 
  b.. Deadline for applications to the Funding – Developing Countries  – April 15, 2012 
  c.. Notification of acceptance – May 15, 2012 
  d.. Deadline for early registration and payment – May 31, 2012 
  e.. yBIS–jSPE joint meeting – July 23–26, 2012
CONTACTS:
  a.. webpage: http://www.ybis-jspe.com/ 
  b.. email: yBIS.jSPE at gmail.com
With our best regards,
Organizing Committee of the Joint Meeting of yBIS and jSPE.


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