Dear Colleagues,
In 2016, the ASA Q&P Section’s Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by Arizona State University and held at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Tempe, AZ from June 14 – 16, 2016. The theme of this year’s conference is Integrating Quality and Statistics: A Transformative Alliance. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in quality and productivity, industrial needs, and the physical and engineering sciences. Statistical issues and research approaches drawn from collaborative research will be highlighted.
The conference will honor Dr. Christine Anderson-Cook, a research scientist in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The conference will also feature a special Memorial Session honoring the memory and contributions of Professor Connie Borror from Arizona State University and the Organizing Committee Chair for the 2016 QPRC, who recently passed away on April 10, 2016. Conference registration includes a tour and reception at the Marston Exploration Theater at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. For a small additional registration fee, a short course on Assessing Model Uncertainty in Applied Bayesian Data Analysis by William Guthrie, Chief of the NIST Statistical Engineering Division, will be offered before the conference on June 13, 2016.
The conference website, http://www.qprc2016.com/, contains the program, registration, student scholarships, and hotel information. Registration for the Conference and the Short Course are now open. Register early, on or before May 15, 2016, and receive a substantial discount.
An important objective of the QPRC is to encourage student participation. Scholarships for participation in the conference include the Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships and QPRC Student Scholarships. Please see the Conference Scholarship Web Page for further information.
For further information on the conference, please contact either Professor Rong Pan at rong.pan@asu.edu or Professor Steven Rigdon at srigdon@slu.edu .
To submit a contributed paper for the 2016 QPRC, please provide the title, authors, and a brief abstract to Professor Steven Rigdon at srigdon@slu.edu .
The deadline for submitting a contributed paper is May 1, 2016, but please submit your paper as early as possible for maximum consideration.