In 2017, the ASA Q&P Section’s Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by the University of Connecticut and held in Storrs, CT, between June 13 and 15. The theme of this year’s conference is Quality and Statistics: A Path to Better Life. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in quality and productivity, industrial needs, and the physical engineering and health sciences. Statistical issues and research approaches drawn from collaborative research will be highlighted. A poster session will highlight graduate and undergraduate student research on these topics.
The conference will honor Prof. Shelemyahu Zacks, from SUNY Binghamton.
Conference registration includes a tour and reception at UConn’s TechPark (http://innovation.uconn.edu/tech-park/). For an additional registration fee, a short course on Computational Bayesian Methods for Big Data Problems will be given on June 12, 2017 by Steve Scott, Director of Statistics Research at Google.
The conference website, http://qprc2017.org, contains the program, registration, student scholarships, and hotel information. It also provides links to previous QPRC conferences. Registration for the Conference and the Short Course is expected to open sometime in January 2017. The deadline for submitting a contributed paper is April 1, 2017.
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. Additionally, QPRC 2017 received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for travel awards to graduate and undergraduate students from US academic institutions who plan to present their research at the conference. Special effort will be made to support women and participants from under-represented groups.
For further information on the conference, please contact Nalini Ravishanker at nalini.ravishanker@uconn.edu or Haim Bar at haim.bar@uconn.edu.
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Emmanuel Yashchin
IBM Corporation
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